CHAPTER I.--THE GIANT TARPON.
“ II.--AMONG THE ALLIGATORS.
“ III.--HOW TO CATCH TARPON.
“ IV.--A LIVELY MORNING IN THE PASS.
“ V.--LADIES WHO LOVE THE SPORT.
“ VI.--ENORMOUS RAYS OR DEVIL-FISH.
“ VII.--HARPOONING A MONSTER.
“ VIII.--THE LOGGERHEAD TURTLE.
“ IX.--CATFISH AS SCAVENGERS.
“ X.--BONY FISH--JACK--GARFISH--JEWFISH--SQUEATEAGUE--AND BASS.
“ XI.--SPOTTED EELS--CRAB-EATERS--SURF-WHITING--MOONFISH--LEATHER JACKETS--TRIGGER-FISH--AND MULLET.
“ XII.--STRIPED MULLET--SHARKS--BIRD LIFE.
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
26. GAFF TOPSAIL CATFISH AND YOUNG HAMMERHEAD SHARK 131
27. THE SHEEPSHEAD 135
28. TOAD FISH WATCHING BONY FISH AS THEY LEAP 139
29. GARFISH PURSUED BY A KINGFISH 143
30. A MARMORATUS LYING MOTIONLESS 146
31. A CARANX HIPPOS 147
32. THE MIGHTY PERCH AND HIS DEEP-WATER COMPANION, THE RED GROUPER 149
33. PIECE OF SNAKE-LIKE CONCH SPAWN, AND SEA TROUT 156
34. CHANNEL BASS AND RED GROUPER 157
35. CURIOUS, SNAKE-LIKE EEL 163
36. THE COBIA, OR CRAB EATER 168
37. SURF WHITING AND MANGO SNAPPER 169
38. A MOON FISH 174
39. A LEATHER JACKET 175
40. THE TRIGGER FISH AND THE ANGEL FISH 180
41. SILVER MULLET 181
42. MULLET LEAPING 187
43. CAPTURED SAWFISH WITH SUCKER 192
44. HAMMERHEAD SHARK 193
45. HOOKED SHARK SEIZED BY ANOTHER 193
46. EXTRACTING A FIRMLY EMBEDDED HOOK FROM A SHARK 198
47. ALL HANDS GIVE THE SHARK A MIGHTY HEAVE ASHORE 199
48. LEOPARD SHARK 203