List of Illustrations 



FACING PAGB 



"OCTOPODIA ARE TRUE SCAVENGERS, EaTING 



Anything Eatable Which Comes in Their 

 Way" 130 



Where Nature Has Outdone Herself in the 



Fashioning of Strange Monsters . .150 



The Females Settled Down upon the Smooth 



Patches of Sandy Sea-Floor . . . 202 



I Have Seen the Sea-Surface Suddenly 

 Broken into Foam by Myriads of Flying 

 Fish 234 



Sometimes He is Taken Off His Guard and 



Falls a Prey to a Shark . . .252 



Garfish and Horse Mackerel Swimming Se- 

 dately in Front of the School . . 260 



The Pollock is More Elegant in Shape than 



THE Chief of His Tribe .... 289 



"Looking Down into the Limpid Depths, I 

 Saw Several Barracouta Stealing 

 Along" 320 



The Water Greeted Me with a Roar and a 

 Dash that Flung Me Gasping Back upon 

 the Sand 342 



A Bos'uM Has Often Kept Me Pleasant Com- 

 pany 356 



I Always Shared Any Delicious Morsel with 



Her 382 



The Penguins Gazed at Him from the Rocky 



Ledges 398 



