Part 2

INDEX.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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1. A WHIP RAY LEAPING Frontispiece

2. THE TARPON 23

3. THE FLOATING HOTEL 27

4. INTERIOR OF AN ALLIGATOR ISLAND 31

5. THE ALLIGATOR MADE STRAIGHT FOR THE OPEN SEA 37

6. A TARPON GUIDE 45

7. A GOOD CATCH OF TARPON FOR A LADY 56

8. A HOOKED PIECE OF CORAL WHICH WAS MISTAKEN FOR A JEWFISH 57

9. KINGFISH ACCIDENTALLY FOUL-HOOKED 62

10. WITH LIGHTNING SPEED THE KINGFISH CHASED THE LIVELY SKIPJACK 63

11. THE KINGFISH LEAPT SOME TWENTY FEET INTO THE AIR 67

12. A BIG JEWFISH FOR A WOMAN TO LAND 76

13. JEWFISH WITH SUCKER CLINGING TO IT 77

14. A VANQUISHED WHIP RAY 82

15. THE WHIP RAY TURNED HELPLESSLY ON ITS BACK 83

16. THE HOOKED TARPON FOLLOWED THE BOAT TOWARDS SHORE 83

17. THE CREWS OF SIX BOATS TOWING A HARPOONED WHIP RAY 83

18. A STRANDED WHIP RAY 95

19. HARPOONED DEVIL-FISH IN SHALLOW WATER 102

20. HARPOONED DEVIL-FISH WITH JAWS PROPPED OPEN 103

21. A TURTLE SWIMMING 109

22. HARPOONING A TURTLE 114

23. PLAYING A TURTLE 115

24. HOISTING A TURTLE ON BOARD 119

25. DEAD GROUPER BEING DEVOURED BY CATFISH AND BREAM 127