A Fishing Trip to the Gulf of Mexico ¹

Abstract

MR. AFLALO describes a journey to Florida via New York, a fortnight's tarpon and other fish ing in Florida, and the journey home by way of sundry Central American and West Indian ports. The account given by the author of his outward journey differs in no material respect from numerous extant accounts of similar journeys, but is somewhat marred by a style rather reminiscent of that of the traveller who has perforce to provide his daily or weekly quota of copy for some periodical publication. Such sentences as “In the middle of the ship soft-voiced stewardesses gently raise thick curtains and say that dinner will be up in a minute. It usually is. Fore and aft there is neither curtain nor stewardess, but one sufferer leans across a neighbour of a different race and obeys the Irresistible. Everything comes up, even the moon at last...” are hardly worthy of a serious volume. There are, however, interesting if slight allusions to and photographs of the Bronx Park Zoological Gardens and New York Aquarium, and a good account of a typical American health and pleasure resort in North Carolina.