84 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. 
be found along the St. John’s River and in and about the small lakes 
which abound in the interior. 
Following down the coast from Jacksonville, we come to the well- 
known shooting grounds near Oak Hill, although, as I have re- 
marked before, any one desiring to simply hunt quail and snipe may 
get fair sport at almost any of the small towns on the line of the 
road. 
At Oak Hill there is a small hotel kept by Frank Sams, who is 
also the proprietor of the hotel at New Smyrna. Oak Hillis situated 
at the head of the Indian River, 
and fine duck shooting may be 
had there at times. Deer may 
also be killed in this vicinity, 
although they are not as plenty 
as formerly. There are parts of 
the old Turnbull Swamp where 
turkeys are still common enough, 
but difficult to get at, and one or 
more bears are usually killed by 
hunters from Oak Hill in and 
‘about the swamp during the season. 
The country below Oak Hill on the east coast is the property of 
the Canaveral Shooting Club and is not open to the public. Ducks 
are numerous, as bears were also at one time, but I have assisted 
in reducing their number considerably in that locality. 
From Titusville southward there are many places on the Indian 
River where good duck shooting may be had. In the vicinity of 
the Ten Thousand Islands the duck shooting is sometimes very 
good. 
At one time ducks came in great numbers to pass the winter on 
the east.coast of Florida, attracted there by an abundance of their 
favorite food. A bag of one hundred birds in a day’s shooting over 
decoys or ‘‘ stools” was not uncommon. I must plead guilty to hav- 
ing done this myself on one or two occasions, but none of the birds 
were wasted, and I am glad to say that I have many times killed 
