others have been established, and large and varied crops raised wherever water is introduced by canals. The banks of the Colorado have been closed to further floods, and the Salton Sea is slowly dissipating in the hot air of the desert and will become a memory to be told to generations to come as a modern flood, just as hundreds of other "Salton seas" have alarmed the natives in other and past centuries, as there are evidences that the to us strange phenomenon is no new thing, and that the waters of the Colorado have often broken away and poured into the great sink of "Salton Sea." Anglers need not count on a new field as the salt deposit will doubtless make "salt fish" of all the members of the finny tribe that come in, but the "sinkers" and "salmon" and carp seem to survive in sufficient numbers to start the story of the fishes that hear the whistle and come up to the bridge to be fed. Some of these lines were written on the shores of this mysterious sea. I have just been watching the moon setting in the distant mountains. beyond it. The blaze of light turned the surface into a great path of silver that illumined the dark waters and gave the sombre lake a strange and, to me, uncanny appearance. Even the waves that beat upon the shore had a vibrant sound unlike that on an ordinary sea beach. Then came the cry of some bird, and the moon suddenly dropped behind the furnace-like hills, and an ebony night seemed to shut in; and then, as I passed over a sand dune, there rose on the air-ye gods and fishes!-the voice of one Caruso literally crying in the wilderness. It is the unexpected which always happens, and here, far out on the desert, was a miner's tent, its sole furnishing being a burro and a talking machine; the latter was in vigorous action, drowning the mournful sound of the Salton Sea, and as it ran down the burro took up the refrain, arousing a distant coyote, who imitated successfully a dozen of his tribe, and presto! the desert was awake. Acoma, 126 A Adenostoma, 357 INDEX Agassiz, on flying fish, 345 Alamo Muchos, 387 Albacore, 168 Alban's, Book of St., 184 Alders, 376 Altadena, 292 Amber-jack, 228 Angling, 124. Amurrio, 142 Bacum, 108 Baldwin, Lucky, 261 Bartlett, Dean Murray, 213 Bass, rock, 228 Bass, white sea-, 124, 205 Bat, guano, 118 Bat, sea, 124 Batequis, 127 Bayatori, 126 Beebe, A. L., 181, 224 Beebe, Mt., 245 Bennett, Dr., on flying fish, 343, 344 Berners, Juliana, 183 Big Meadows, 152 Big trees, size of, age of, Black Jack Mt., 363 Borromeo, San Carlos, 139 Brackett, Walter, 187 Broncho, 357 Bungalow, 127 Burdette, Robert, J., 326 Burnham, Major Frederick R., 108, 129, 134 Bacatete, 109 Bachoco, 129 C Cabrillo, 213 Cactus, giant, forests of, [ Corpus Christi, 181, 265 107, 108 Calexico, 389 California, 24, 161, 283, 367 California, Southern, 161 Camino Real, 229 Corral, 364 Cortez, 109, 213 Cows, diving, 153 Crater Lake, 27, 233 Cuttyhunk, 171 Cuvier, on flying fish, 338 Coast Range, trout of, 140, Dolphin_tackle, 329 |