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ritt s Island, or to the prairies bordering Salt or South 

 lakes. Boatmen and guides can be hired to any point 

 on the lagoon and interior. James Stewart, captain 

 of the Blonde, is perfectly trustworthy and reliable. 

 Jim Russell is thoroughly posted upon the game and 

 fish of Indian river, and will be found of great value 

 to any party contemplating a winter s camp here. Ad 

 dress them at Sandy Point, which is the old name for 

 Titusville. 



I visited some old acquaintances here, and walked 

 over to the store of a man named Joyners. I was much 

 surprised to find him apparently overjoyed to meet me, 

 the more so as we had met but once. My heart 

 warmed as he poured forth congratulation and welcome, 

 and I thought here was one true friend, if he did have a 

 suspicious squint in one eye and never once looked me 

 square in the face. What was my disgust to find, upon 

 returning to the boat, that he had despatched a &quot;jus 

 tice &quot; to arrest me for an alleged violation of the license 

 law, in giving a man, whom I had hired, an old coat. 

 A friend told the justice he thought he d better not 

 trouble me, and the justice departed, saying he &quot; thought 

 so too.&quot; We left Titusville at daybreak one morning. 

 The wind gradually increased, till at noon it was blowing 

 half a gale, and we were very glad to seek shelter behind 

 Oleander Point, about twenty-five miles from Sand 

 Point. A gale is the specialty in which Indian river 

 excels ; either a gale or a calm. But then this is a 

 stormy winter, though it is hard to realize it with the 

 thermometer at shirt-sleeve temperature. Oleander Point 

 is formed of disintegrated shells, white as snow, the 

 beach ending in a crescent-shaped bar. South of this 

 beach is a coquina formation, extending for miles, where 



