10 CONTENTS. 
Fish Story. Sea Turtles Resigned to their Fate. Contented and Happy Negroes. 
Good Orderin Nassau. Tlowa Millenium can be Secured. Agricultural and Manu- 
facturing Industry not Rooted in the Rocks. Sugar making, Small Islands unfavor- 
able toIntellectual Development. . «© © «© «© «© «© «© «© pig 
Caap. VIII.—Absence of Wild Animals upon Coral Islands. Pleasures of the Chase Un- 
known, Diet of the Aborigines. Wow Alligatora Taste. The Guanas as a Table 
Luxury. They are Intoxicated with Whistling Music. Vassar Girls Charming 
Turtles. Mountain Crabs. ‘Ihe Hermit Craba Freebootcr. The Lizards; Cr anging 
their Color and Ilunting Game. Animals upon the Wes- Iudia Islands when Discov- 
ered. Snakes. S:a Turtles. Turtle Shells. Wow Sponges Grow and form Commu- 
nistic Communiiics. The Sponge Fisherics. Valuc and Quantity of Bahama Sponges 
Exported. 0% wa wwe ES 
Caar. IX.—Amusements, Small and Isolated Communities thrown upon their Own Re- 
sources, Visit of a Circus Company to Nassau. Jis Effect upon the Negroes, Whist 
and Boating Clubs. Base-b.Jl and Polo. Military and Maroles. Religion Utilizing 
the Idle Hours, Streets Placarded with Notices of Solemn Fasts. Absence of a Color 
Linein Churches. Amateur Fishing. The Boatmen Canvassing for Customers, Capt. 
Sampson a Fisher of Men, Ue Describes and Discusses the Sharks... . p. 143 
Caar. X.—Yachting in Bahama Waters. Sampson and his Tritoa. Testing a Sail-boat. 
Searching Outside in a Good Wind forthe LincStorm. Sampson's Visit to New York. 
lis Experiences and Impressions. Reliable Wind—Delightful Views—Congenial 
Friends. The Log of the Vleasure Seckers. Newly Discovered Poets. The Gulf 
"Weeds we ce ee Oe A em a ate SPL 
- CHap, XI.—Nassau as a Sanitarium. Its Mild and Gencrally Salubrious Climate. Its 
Freedom from Cold Waves of Air and Cold Currents of Water. Its Vulnerable Points. 
No Absorbing and Filtering Sands. Impuritics Endangering its Water Supply and 
Poisoning the Air. A Tigh Degree of leat inthe Sun. Di-eases upon the Islands, 
Swalt but Crowded IWuman Ant Hills. The Yellow Fever in Nassau in 1880. The 
Pestilence in other Neighboring Cities at Other Times. The Angel of Health Rides 
Upon Hurricanes. Cleansing the City. Constant Vigilance and Activity of Nassau's 
Board of Llealth Essential toits Safety. Who may [ope for Relief and Core in Nassau. 
Not the Best Place in which cither to be very Sick orto Dic. Frost a Factor inthe 
Problem of Civilization. Iuman Development and Progress Dependent upon Ice, 
Sea Bathing all Winter. a a ep we ee ee ET 
Cuar. XII.—Corals and Coral Recfs. The Marvelous Beatty of the ‘Marine Garden.” 
Its Corals, Coralines, Gorgonias, Alge, Sponges and Wonderfully Colored Fishes. 
Water Glasses. Natural Aquariums. Coral Bowers and Grottoes. Sea Urchins, 
The Colored Divers. L:feinthe Rock. . . < . ee f ed ag p. 209 
Cuap. XIII.—The Extent of the World of Waters and its Wonderful Fauna, Bahama 
Fishes. Scme Eminently Distinguished for their Brilliant Colors, aud Others for 
their Singularity, described. Fish that arc Poisonous. Table Fish. The Bahamas 
Rich in Beautiful Mollusks. They Harmonize with the other Exqusite Forms of Life 
