Paddling under Palmettos — page 42: what you’re looking at

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Paddling Under Palmettos. 37 Once upon the Halifax, with the wind dead aft, they sailed merrily on. As the afternoon grew apace the wind increased in strength until the white- caps were dancing along the surface. It was decided to head for Daytona, and about four o’clock they sighted that place. The white houses nestling in among the green trees proved a welcome sight. <A long wharf jutted out—it being the universal custom to build them in this fashion, as the shores are too shallow to allow of a steamer coming close in. Indeed, in many places the writer has seen a square platform built out in the middle of the Indian River, and the St. Johns also, possibly half a mile from the shore, and from which passengers and freight were transferred to dry ground by sailboats. The canoes were secured again as on the previous night. It threatened rain now, though the wind continued to blow. i They found Daytona quite a pretty place, though the water-front seemed at that time to be about the only desirable location. Jt is now considered the most charming town in “S (E(0) ecoynaitiel oxexe)