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eyes, tinned 10-oz. tacks, whetstone, matches in tin boxes, 

 soap, towels, combs, hair and tooth brushes, pens, paper, 

 ink ; postage stamps, envelopes, two feed chests, sugar in 

 round wooden boxes with lids, pickles, cheese, pepper, 

 salt, ten pounds best Java coffee in tin box, six cans con 

 densed milk, forty-eight pounds best lard in eight-pound 

 tin cans, ninety- four pounds best pilot bread, fifty pounds 

 best breakfast bacon, two hams, two boxes red herrings, 

 old boots, shoes, slippers, and clothes, blankets, with 

 quantum suff. of old calico and newspapers, powder, shot, 

 wads, caps, cartridges, gun-cleaning apparatus, Colton s 

 and Drew s maps of Florida, one Winchester and Rem 

 ington rifle, one breech and two muzzle-loading guns, 

 hunting knives, fishing rods and tackle ; three pounds 

 arsenic in tin box ; diarrhoaa mixture, lead and opium 

 pills for dysentery, purgative pills, and adhesive and 

 court plaster, in tin cans ; tobacco, pipes, one bottle of 

 brandy, and one of apple-jack. Verily, along list of 

 plunder, but everything absolutely necessary for such an 

 expedition. 



Our numerous necessaries were stowed, and we visited 

 a neighboring saw-mill to secure spring mattresses. The 

 proprietor sawed us four boards five-eighths of an inch 

 thick, and three pieces one inch thick and four inches wide. 

 To arrange our sleeping apartment at night, we placed 

 the stove in the cock-pit ; the 1x4 pieces athwart ship, 

 and the boards forward and aft. At night we anchored 

 the Spray as far as possible from land, placed the soft 

 side of the boards uppermost ; arranged our blankets ; 

 secured our awning, and slept as only men can sleep, 

 when inhaling the balmy and invigorating atmosphere of 

 South-west Florida. 



Manatee is a pleasant village of several hundred in- 



