Preface; Incidents of the voyage; Kingston and Port Royal; Alligator pond; Bluefields bay; Bluefields; Belmont beach; Market day; Bluefields mountain; Urania sloanus; Lizards; Sea-urchins; Bluefields river; Ride to Content; Insects; Ride to Kilmarnock; The Kepp; Pinnock Shafton; Bluefields Ridge; The Venus lizard; The grave-digger; Inverary; Mountain gardens; Phoenix Park; Birds and flowers; The chigoe flea; The smooth sheath-claw; The pond turtle; Curious fishes; Fig-trees; The ant-lion; The Cotta wood; The bamboo; Periodical rain; Fishes and fishing; Anole lizards; Fruit on male papaw; The black snake; Negro proper names; A naturalist's work-room; The brush-footed spider; The nurse shark; The mangrove; A swarm of dragon-flies; Drive to Montego bay; Beauty of negro villages; The two-headed snake; The Naseberry bat; The silk-cotton tree; The red hairy-tailed bat; Musquitoes; The eyed pallette-tip; The sand gootoo; The monk bat; The great-eared leaf bat; Moonlight; The Liguanea mountains; The trunk turtle; The Pedro seal; The yellow boa; The pardaline snake; The owl-faced bat; The alco; The manatee; Cetacea; Nocturnal forest sounds; Gregarious trees; The grey snake; The crested snake; The spotted-chinned snake; The wild hog; The crocodile; Land tortoises; The agua toad; Deer; Wild goats; The rabbit; Rats; Sugar-cane insects; Curious spider; Stingless bees; Indian cony; Orchideae; Departure and return; Appendix; Index.