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ALONG THE FLORIDA REEF. 



walls of Fort Jefferson, on Garden Key, or the 

 Tuguses, as Paublo preferred to call it. 



Long John and Bob Rand shoved off to 

 brine: the luixu'asxe-boat, and as they rowed away 



in the dinghy 

 the boys were 

 rprised to 

 a pelican, 

 had been 

 quietly flying 

 head, sud- 

 denly circle 

 down and 

 try 



An unmviU'J 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 



