Paddling under Palmettos — page 149: what you’re looking at

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142 Paddling Under Palmettos. is holding-ground totally unlike the affair up the river.” The floating weeds and sea grass catching on the cable held like fun, and nothing short of a tornado could have swept them off. “We'll leave in the morning, Dick.” “If the breeze holds east, yes.” “Tm off to dreamland again, then,” “Ditto, when I’ve smoked this pipe.” Rocked in the cradle of the deep, Archie siept soundly and knew no more until, hearing voices on the landing, he looked out, to find the sun about to rise above the low-lying peninsula a mile and a half away, beyond which was the ocean. As the wind still held east, it seemed settled that they would try and make Jupiter Inlet that day. There is much routine work in cruising. This be- comes more fatiguing in Florida waters, where as a general thing each cruiser must sleep and cook aboard his own crait, for the plain reason that so much of the shore is illy adapted for camping pur- poses. Then the cheery camp-fire, where the burden of preparing meals ic divided, making it a pleasure, the Gomichbooks (E(0)