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[APRIL 21, 1906. 

THE ROBERTS SAFETY LAUNCH AND YACHT BOILER. 
Nearly 1500 in use. 
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Telephone Address: 599 Cortlandt. 
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OLD TOWN 
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Canoe Handling and Sailing. 
The Canoe: History, Uses, Limitations and Va- 
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Our Turkey Hunt. 
Last winter, while collecting specimens of 
natural history down on the gulf coast of 
Florida, my boatman informed me that there 
were plenty of turkeys back in the swamp; and 
he thought we would have no trouble to shoot 
a gobbler if I cared to try it, and would get 
out to their roosting place by daylight. 4 
readily accepted the invitation. A change of 
diet was not to be ignored after a week’s trial 
of fish and pork; and moreover I had for years 
been coveting a chance to shoot a wild turkey. 
Twice in my life had I gone to the mountain 
region of my home State of Pennsylvania, for 
the purpose of trying for a shot at a turkey. 
The first time we saw none; on the second oc- 
casion my companion ran on to three turkeys 
as. they were feeding in the woods; he was quite 
as much surprised as were the birds, and they 
were out of shot before he recollected that he 
carried a gun. I had only the satisfaction of 
seeing them fly over the hilltops to a distant 
mountain range. Several years had elapsed 
without presenting an opportunity to fulfil my 
ambition, and I was determined that no lack of 
effort of mine should lead to another failure. 
We were camped on a creek two miles back 
from the gulf, and our tent, formerly used by 
fishermen, was under a clump of cabbage pal- 
mettos, just where open marsh or salt meadows 
met the timbered swamp or low hamak, as it is 
called in that country. Traveling through the 
timber was extremely tiresome, there being but 
a single path leading but a short distance back 
from our camp—the remains of an old road used 
for hauling out cedar logs. After this path we 
had no trails, and for the most part the ground 
was wet, muddy; or if dry frequently thickly 
covered with the cabbage palmetto, with naked 
leaf stalks projecting in every direction, and so 
close together as to make it a matter of time 
and exertion to travel any distance. 
An afternoon was spent in locating the 
turkeys, and fortunately they were found to be 
not far distant from the old road. The next 
morning we were stirring early. We had 
planned to have breakfast over an hour before 
sunrise, but as we were minus a timepiece our 
guess-work proved in error. After a hasty re- 
past of coffee, crackers and onion omelette, we 
sat around the camp-fire for an hour wondering 
what time it could be. Excepting an occasional 
rustle of a “cabbage” leaf, all was still. An old 
bull alligator, who had the night before kept up 
a continual bellow back of the hut, was silent. 
We were too far from the gulf to hear the 
noise of water; and apparently we were alone. 
Our hunting party numbered three, and it was 
(Continued on page 621.) 

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