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ALOXG THE FLORIDA REEF. 



walls of Fort Jefferson, on Garden Key, or the 

 Tuguses, as Paublo preferred to call it. 



Long John and Bob Eand shoved off to 

 bring the luggage-boat, and as they rowed away 



in the dinghy 

 the boys w T ere 

 surprised to 

 see a pelican, 

 that had been 

 quietly flying 

 overhead, sud- 

 denly circle 

 down and 

 try 



An uninvited passenger. 



to alight on Long John's head, flapping its great 

 wings and uttering a queer asthmatic sound. 

 John pushed the bird away, and then it tried 



