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there four or five days, and then on to New Smyrna, where we stop- 

 ped at the Ocean House about a week, putting in our time on the 

 water. Then on south to the Oak Hill House on Mosquito La- 

 goon, where we stayed one day, then to the " Haulover " one day, 

 from where we went on down Indian River to Paine' s boarding house, 

 opposite Indian River Inlet, having stopped one day each at Titus- 

 ville and Rock Ledge. We remained at Paine's several days, when 

 my companions left me and returned to St. Augustine. I continued on 

 to Jupiter, where I remained several days, then returning to Indian 

 River Inlet, where I took a small steamer, belonging to Jacob Loril- 

 lard, to Rock Ledge. That steamer was the first one to carry passen- 

 gers on Indian River. We were four days making the trip to Rock 

 Ledge, owing to oyster bars in the river which the steamer often ran 

 onto. At Rock Ledge I took a wagon over to Lake Poinset, where I 

 boarded a steamer for Sanford, and from the latter place, steamer to 

 Jacksonville. 



My next trip to the State was during the winter of 1890, when I 

 repeated the above trip on Indian River down to Jupiter on the sloop 

 " Hillsboro," in charge of her owner, B. J. Pacetti, with John Gard- 

 ner as assistant. 



During the winter of 1891, I again repeated the two former 

 cruises, on the sloop " Lillie Shippey," with the owner, Dick McCarty, 

 in charge, and John Gardner assistant. On this cruise I made more 

 stops than I had before. From 181)2 to 1897, inclusive, I cruised 

 over the same waters as above with B. J. Pacetti on the "Hillsboro," 

 also visiting Lake Worth many times, where I first stopped at Dim- 

 mick's Hotel, and later at the Royal Poinciana. In 1896 I spent the 

 month of April at the Hotel Riviera on the west side of the lake, 

 nearly opposite the inlet. During the season I spent a week at May- 

 port, mouth of St. Johns River. In March, 1892, Mr. Edward P. 

 Borden and myself chartered the schooner "Manatee," her owner, 

 Capt. John Zellers, in charge, for a cruise down a part of the East 

 Coast and around the capes to the West Coast. We sailed out at 

 Gilbert's Bar, Indian River, at 8.30 A. M. and made Bears Cut, Bis- 

 cayne Bay, at 7.30 P. M., a run of one hundred and ten miles. 



On the run we trolled for Bluefish, Spanish Mackerel, and King- 

 fish, catching a large number, returning all to the water except a few 

 for the table. 



We remained on the Bay about a week, visiting the rapids, five 



