CHAPTER II. 



IN THE CORAL COUNTRY. 



Garden Key and the Dry Tortugas — Bob Rand and Long John— A 

 pet pelican — A large fort — Getting settled — Home on a coral 

 key — Riding the green turtle — The aquarium — Angel-fish — 

 Surgeon-fish — Leap-frog with a fish — Long John's pets — The 

 fishing and collecting tools, coral hooks, and grains. 



)HEN the boys awoke next 



morning and staggered on 



deck, they found the Tortugas 



bowling along with a fair wind, 



a big square sail out to help her 



JffiZmrm 



'S along, and a strange dinghy tow- 



ing astern, while sitting on the 

 weather rail were two men, evi- 

 dently the owners, who had just 

 come aboard. They were intro- 

 duced as Long John and Bob 

 Rand to the boys, who unani- 

 mously agreed that they were very singular char- 

 acters. 



