The Biology of the Crocodilia 9 
ing through the narrow pass of San Juans into the 
little lake on their return down the river, and the 
alligators were in such incredible numbers, and so 
close together from shore to shore, that it would 
have been easy to have walked across their heads, 
had the animals been harmless.’’ At the present 
time it is usually necessary to travel far from the 
usual routes of the Northern tourists to find alli- 
gators in any abundance. 
At Palm Beach, Florida, lived, a few years ago, 
and probably still lives, a well-known hunter and 
guide, “Alligator Joe.”’ Just what nationality he 
may be is difficult to determine, but that he knows 
that trackless waste, the Everglades, at least in 
the region of Palm Beach, is evident. He has an 
“alligator farm’’ near the great hotels of that 
famous winter resort, at which he keeps, or did a 
few years ago, a large number of alligators of all 
sizes, as well as a number of crocodiles. For a 
consideration (by no means a modest one) he 
would take out a party of tourists for a day into 
the Everglades, guaranteeing that he would find 
an alligator for them to shoot. It was rumored 
by the natives that an accomplice was always sent 
ahead to free the alligator at the psychological 
moment, after the hunters had been paddled by a 
devious course to the selected spot, but whether 
this were true or not the writer was not able to 
determine. It is true, however, that he and the 
writer paddled in a rather graceful canoe, dug out 
