A 'Thousand- Mile Walk 
As soon as I was able to get out of bed, I crept 
away to the edge of the wood, and sat day after 
day beneath a moss-draped live-oak, watching 
birds feeding on the shore when the tide was 
out. Later, as I gathered some strength, I 
sailed in a little skiff from one key to another. 
Nearly all the shrubs and trees here are ever- 
green, and a few of the smaller plants are in 
flower all winter. The principal trees on this 
Cedar Key are the juniper, long-leafed pine, 
and live-oak. All of the latter, living and dead, 
are heavily draped with tillandsia, like those 
of Bonaventure. The leaf is oval, about two 
inches long, three fourths of an inch wide, 
glossy and dark green above, pale beneath. 
The trunk is usually much divided, and is ex- 
tremely unwedgeable. The specimen on the op- 
posite page 1 is growing in the dooryard of Mr. 
Hodgson’s house. It is a grand old king, whose 
crown gleamed in the bright sky long ere the 
Spanish shipbuilders felled a single tree of this 
noble species. 
1 Of the original journal. 
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