May, 1920 
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scene of great excitement and commo- 
tion. The dead and stunted mangrove 
trees, and the entire ground of Pelican 
Island, of an acre or two, were literally 
covered with the nests of brown pelicans. 
Those on the mangroves were rude, flat 
affairs, formed of sticks; those on the 
ground consisted of but a handful of 
grass or rushes, while many eggs were 
lying on the bare ground. In some 
nests there would be an egg, a newly- 
hatched pelican, and one four times the 
size, sparsely covered with a yellowish- 
white down. This occurred so often as 
to attract my particular attention 
The young kept up a continual 
screaming as we approched them, dart- 
ing out their long bills and opening their 
mouths. Some of them, however, were 
incapable of sound or motion, being too 
full for utterance, literally and in fact. 
Some were sitting solemnly in their 
nakedness, their bills elevated vertically, 
with the tail of a fish sticking out and 
pointing heavenward. Pulling out some 
of these fish, I found them sometimes 
twice the length of the young bird, bill 
and all, the lower or head-half of the 
fish being digested. And thus they sat 
for hours in a state of perfect bliss and 
contentment, impaled on a needle-fish, 
which, however, owing to the process of 
digestion going on at the lower end, grew 
smaller by degrees and beautifully less. 
Some of the old birds, seeing that our 
intentions were peaceful and honorable, 
remained on their nests within a few 
yards of us, but most of them took to 
the water, where they were gracefully 
swimming by hundreds near the shore. 
As soon as we left they returned to 
their nests none the worse for being dis- 
turbed by our curiosity. 
We soon came in sight of the “Nar- 
rows,” a group of islands with a narrow 
channel from an eighth to a quarter of 
a mile wide, and ten miles long. There 
were many oyster reefs and shoals, but 
with a fair wind we steered free of 
such difficulties. The islands were 
clothed with a wealth of palmettoes and 
water oaks, on which were perched the 
curious water-turkey or snake-bird, 
weaving back and forth, its long neck 
poking in all directions, eagerly watch- 
ing for a stray fish. Passing through 
the Narrows we saw the stakes of the 
turtle nets with palmetto leaves tied on 
their tops. This was a favorite ground 
for green turtles, which were caught in 
gill nets of very wide mesh. The camp 
of the turtle fishers was on shore, where 
we stopped an hour. 
There was a huge loggerhead turtle 
tied to a stake near the shore in shallow 
water, the boys finding some amuse- 
ment in feeding it oysters in the shells, 
which they crunched like soda crackers, 
swallowing shells and all, like Quilp with 
the egg shells. Aftey extracting an 
aching tooth for one of the turtlers, we 
again got under way carrying a small 
green turtle with us for our dinner next 
day. We landed at Fort Capron and 
made camp in a grove of wild orange 
trees, at the mouth of a small brook of 
cool water, a hundred miles south of 
Titusville and forty miles from Sebas- 
tian river. The only vestiges of the old 
military post were a fallen brick chim- 
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