Paddling under Palmettos — page 48: what you’re looking at

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Paddling Under Palmettos. 43 CHAPTER IV. ON THE WONDERFUL INDIAN RIVER. At two o’clock the cruisers drew up near the new lighthouse, and landing on the sand, proceeded to get something warm for dinner. Archie took advantage of the halt to change his wet clothes and warm himself, for, although the wind Was now several points nearer the east than it had yet been, the air still felt chilly. Before them was a fine stretch of water some miles in width. A low island was covered with gulls. Man-of-war birds, gannets and hawks sailed in the sky, innumerable buzzards circled over the land, while ducks could be seen in countless numbers. “There’s a shark!” said Dick, pointing to a fin that cleft the water like a knife. “Yes, and here comes a school of porpoises 1n with the flood tide.” Archie watched them rolling by. A rowboat con- taining a gentleman and a negro came up, they hav- ing been fishing. Gomicboo <S (E(0)