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moment the surface was a glittering mass of dead or 

 struggling multi-coloured forms; and *' Joe " was dashmg 

 in and out, swimming here and there, seizing fish in his 

 mouth and apparently swallowing gallons of salt water 

 at the same time. When we say that on one of these 

 occasions, we carried 171 fish on board the yacht to be 

 placed in the refrigerator, all killed by one small discharge, 

 it will give the reader an idea oi the multitudes which 

 swarmed about the island and its reefs. 



Poor, dear old fellow ! he as good as told me, when 

 we were sitting together on one occasion in the woods, 

 that he got just a little bored with the island at times. 

 Iguanas, he said, were all very well at first, when you 

 were young and unaccustomed to them. They made 

 you think a bit. But, of course, their terrifying appear- 

 ance was aU bluff. In fact, he had begun to wonder 

 lately if he was really justified in the sport of hunting 

 them. 



Then he suddenly changed the subject, and looking 

 up with his great "speaking " brown eyes, asked me if I 

 wasn't an EngHshman, and if I could tell him anything 

 about Yorkshire and Airedale, where his people had been 

 born and bred ? 



So I did my be^ to tell him. 



