Paddling under Palmettos — page 41: what you’re looking at

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36 Paddling Under Palmettos. one the canoes were carried down and wedded to the brackish waters of the creek, at this point some sixty feet in width. Then the cargoes were stowed, after the masts had been stepped. By noon all was ready, and the trio of adventurous cruisers ate a cold lunch. By this time the wind had slackened and came only in puffs along the creek, although they would evidently find more of it out upon the river when they reached that point. Archie had scared up a large bevy of quail among the palmettos near the landing, and greatly desired to get a crack at them, but forebore on account of the need for haste. | | They set sail. Progress was slow but sure, and, perhaps, in the end this pleases a canoeist as well as a rush, during which the fingers tingle with ex- citement. Winding this way and that and passing a little steam tug with a tow of logs, they finally reached the mouth of the creek about two o’clock. But for Ned’s charts they might have stuck in the mud a dozen times, for the channel here is just where a novice would never think of looking for it. (E@NMIEL OOK KS (E(0)