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take the proffered lure. Trolling for am- j 
her jacks or kingfish mackerel in Hawk 
channel was pretty fair sport for the 
boys, but act equal to the fishing along 
the keys and in the passes between. 
There the groupers, black, red and gray, 
and the gag and scamp, any of which 
might run up to twenty pounds, and the’ 
dog snapper and the schoolmaster and 
mangrove snappers, and yellowtails and 
cavalli and porgies, would vie with bone- 
fish and lady-fish and angel-fish to be the 
first to take the angler’s bait or artificial 
fly, to say nothing of tarpon, jewfish and 
harks and sawfish and sailfish. 
It is hard to realize at the present 
day that Miami is the third most popu- 
lous city in Florida. Since my visits in 
the winters of 1878, 1881, 1886 and 1889, 
the magnificent hotels and palatial win- 
ter homes and well-ordered grounds of 
Miami seem to have sprung up like 
Aladdin’s palace, if not in a single night, 
in a remarkably brief period. As the 
old hunters say: “If my foresight had 
been as good as my hind sight,” I might 
have heeded another knock on my door 
from Opportunity, inasmuch as I could 
have purchased some of the finest sites in 
Miami for a mere song, and in fact had 
been offered one near the river without 
money and without price, if I had con- 
sented to locate there. 
At the time of which I write, the only 
northern tourists at Miami were a gen- 
tleman and wife and her sister, of Staten 
Island, New York. Their camp was in 
a beautiful grove of cocoa palms; the 
white tents added an additional charm 
to a spot as lovely and romantic as a 
scene in fairyland. Both of the ladies 
were the victims of that cruel and in- 
sidious disease, tuberculosis, and they had 
been drawn hither, as a last resort, to 
try the healing virtues of the chlorinated 
breezes, balmy atmosphere and warm, 
bright son of this, the fairest, the most 
charming and most healthful location in 
Florida. 
I DEEM it advisable to make a slight 
digression here in order that what 
follows may be better understood. 
Before leaving Lake Worth on the hike 
to Miami, Charley Moore warned us to 
beware of the sharks at New River Inlet, 
which he said were the worst on the coast. 
He was once tramping the beach with an 
Indian on their way to Miami, and on ar- 
riving at New River found that the row- 
boat used as a ferry, was on the side of 
the inlet opposite to them. The Indian 
undertook to swim over, at the beginning 
of the flood tide, but when half way over 
he was devoured by sharks, which Char- 
ley was powerless to prevent. Most of 
the boys on hearing this story preferred 
to remain in camp at Lake Worth, while 
Frank, Ben and myself went to Miami, 
as just related. 
Bidding our quondam friends at Miami 
good-bye, the two boys and myself re- 
traced our steps along the sea-beach to 
New River Inlet. As bad luck would 
have it the row-boat was on the north 
side of the inlet. As had been previously 
arranged we set fire to the beach scrub 
in order that the superintendent of the 
station might see the smoke and come 
down me river after us. Unfortunately 
a strong north wind was blowing so that 
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