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Paddling Under Palmettos. 147 in the wind he shortened sail and waited for the oth- ers to come up. Ned led the way. Dick had never been below Indian River Inlet be- fore, so that this was new stamping ground to him also. Waveland was passed about eleven o'clock. It lies about six miles south of Eden. Dick and Archie were alongside, and the former consulting his map, said: “Sixteen miles to Jupiter yet. If this wind holds out we'll get there by four.” “Will it last?’ “Give it up. Ordinarily, down here, an east wind is steady for days at a time, but we have seen no such breeze this season.” “Tt came steady enough from the southeast,” said Archie, shaking his head. “While we were crippled in that cove? Granted, and that would have been a glorious wind with which to have sailed to the Haulover Canal up above Titus- ville,” laughed Dick. “You are right there.” Jupiter Narrows required some care lest they ~ Gomichboo