[“The road down Indian River winds always southward toward the sun”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-0.htm.html#ill_001)
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Frontispiece
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[“They line the paths on either side with the gray columns of their trunks”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-0.htm.html#ill_002)
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Titlepage
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[“Profuse draperies of moss pendant from each branch and twig”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-0.htm.html#ill_003)
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[10](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-0.htm.html#page_10)
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[“To march along this water is to promenade a river side and a sea beach in one”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-1.htm.html#ill_004)
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[30](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-0.htm.html#page_30)
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[“Lesser scaup ducks are very tame in Florida waters all winter”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-1.htm.html#ill_005)
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[34](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-1.htm.html#page_34)
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[“In the grateful shadow of an orange tree facing sunward in the grove”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-1.htm.html#ill_006)
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[50](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-1.htm.html#page_50)
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[“Under the long robes of gray moss at the foot of the ancient cypress trees”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-1.htm.html#ill_007)
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[58](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-1.htm.html#page_58)
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[“A wilderness where deer and bear still linger”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#ill_008)
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[78](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-1.htm.html#page_78)
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[“Razor-backs do not think it good to live alone”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#ill_009)
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[84](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#page_84)
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[Court of “The Alcazar” at St. Augustine](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#ill_010)
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[88](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#page_88)
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[Cathedral Place, St. Augustine](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#ill_011)
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[92](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#page_92)
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[“The fort that waits in crumbling beauty the obliterating hand of the coming centuries”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#ill_012)
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[94](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#page_94)
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[“The first frosts turned the upper leaves of the banana trees a light brown”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#ill_013)
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[102](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#page_102)
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[The banana tree in bloom](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#ill_014)
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[106](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#page_106)
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[“The southeast trade-winds here pass a long line of the islands which bar off the Indian River from the ocean”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#ill_015)
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[108](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#page_108)
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[“This is a country of pineapple plantations”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#ill_016)
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[114](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-2.htm.html#page_114)
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[“Spring and autumn kissed yesterday in the savannas east of Lake Okeechobee”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#ill_017)
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[118](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#page_118)
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[“All must know when spring comes, whether in the Everglades or the New England pastures”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#ill_018)
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[124](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#page_124)
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[“The others began nest building and placed some fifteen hundred nests on the three-acre island”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#ill_019)
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[134](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#page_134)
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[A little group of half-grown young pelicans on the edge of Pelican Island](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#ill_020)
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[138](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#page_138)
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[“Up with the full tide come sometimes the tarpon, rolling silvery bodies in the dark water”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#ill_021)
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[144](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#page_144)
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[“A manatee, rare indeed nowadays”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#ill_022)
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[148](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-3.htm.html#page_148)
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[“Sabal palmettos whose cabbage heads tower often as high as the pines”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#ill_023)
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[154](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#page_154)
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[“As quick night glooms the river the passing sun caresses the palmettos last”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#ill_024)
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[162](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#page_162)
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[“A superb dignity of pose, statues of frozen alertness”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#ill_025)
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[164](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#page_164)
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[A little blue heron and her nest, the commonest Florida heron](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#ill_026)
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[168](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#page_168)
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[A Seminole village deep in the flat woods of Southern Florida](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#ill_027)
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[178](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#page_178)
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[The gray of dawn on the Indian River](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#ill_028)
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[192](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-4.htm.html#page_192)
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[“The tree is lavish to its friends and will produce fruit almost beyond belief”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#ill_029)
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[198](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#page_198)
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[“Thirty miles across the barrens these have come, from groves out at Fort Drum”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#ill_030)
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[200](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#page_200)
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[“A rubber tree twined its roots about a palmetto till it crushed the trunk to a debris of rotten wood”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#ill_031)
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[210](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#page_210)
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[“The river is screened from your view by dense growth of palmettos”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#ill_032)
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[212](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#page_212)
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[“My first glimpse came at one of these places”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#ill_033)
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[222](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#page_222)
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[“The heat and steam of the sub-tropical swamp hatches the eggs without further trouble”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#ill_034)
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[224](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#page_224)
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[“There, too, is the mingling of a score of wee, wild scents from the jungle”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#ill_035)
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[232](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-5.htm.html#page_232)
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[The “traveler’s tree” in a Palm Beach garden](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#ill_036)
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[234](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#page_234)
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[“It is the cocoanut palms that put the touch of picturesque adventure on the place”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#ill_037)
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[238](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#page_238)
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[Into the miraculous sea](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#ill_038)
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[244](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#page_244)
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[“By and by the road leaves the embankment and winds totteringly out on piling”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#ill_039)
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[248](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#page_248)
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[“As one holds his breath in suspense the road comes to a stop at the western tip of Knight’s Key”](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#ill_040)
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[250](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#page_250)
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[Gathering turtle’s eggs on a Florida beach](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#ill_041)
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[252](#5827114921943954130_66052-h-6.htm.html#page_252)
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