130 AUDUBON THE NATURALIST. 
returning hope, a sudden joy to the sinking 
spirit renewed its vitality. Human voices in 
exclamation thrilled the sufferer’s heart, as 
round the headland covered with tangled brush- 
wood the little boat, pushed by its hardy rowers, 
boldly advanced. A scream of joy and fear 
falls upon their ears. They pause and look 
around, Again it comes, but more feebly than 
before. At length they behold the wanderer, 
whose strange and terrible appearance they could 
scarcely recognize as human. 
With tattered garments, hanging like rags 
about him, his face obscured by neglected beard, 
' his hair matted, and his emaciated frame covered 
only by shrivelled skin, like a skeleton with 
parchment, there he lay with fluttering heart, 
gasping breath and reeling brain. Yet the lost 
one was soon regained, and, soon restored to the 
loving hearts and kindly solicitude of home, in 
renewed health and happiness often in after 
years gratefully told the tale of his adventure, 
and excited the sympathy of his listeners by the 
painful recital of his sufferings. 
A. class of men whose calling, no less than 
that of the Live Oakers, exposes them to strange 
incidents and often to peril, are the Turtlers, 
who frequeut the various islets about Florida. 
Vhe Tortugas, a group of eighty miles from 
Key West, consisting of a few uninhabitable 
