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266 Paddling Under Palmettos. boat for weeks and find no means of reaching civili- zation. Breakfast again. The canoes were made in readiness for a start, and at eight o’clock exactly the paddles again dipped in the brown swamp water. At nine the cruisers were clustered together looking gloomily at each other. Further progress was stopped, for the trees again prevented a passage. They might have attempted to cut through, but Ned pointed to the fact that there seemed to be no passage, as he could not detect any current, try as Mamie nt: All that could be done was to turn back and try afresh. They had to return almost to their camp before finding a passage to the south. After much groping about, with time lost and very little progress made, they came to another one 99 of the main “canals,” as they called those running northwest. It was now three o’clock. The »assage was wide, so that they could even Gomicbooks Go