trust their party may meet with fewer misfortunes and as happy a termination.

F. R. G.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I The Company and Their Embarkation

II Mother Carey's Chickens--Fishing for Trout--Saw-Fish--Frank and the Shark--Looming--Tom Starboard--The Nautilus--Arrival at Tampa

III Tampa Bay--Bellevue--Unloading--A Dangerous Cut--How to Stop a Bleeding Artery--Tom Starboard Again

IV Confusion--Housekeeping in a Hurry--First Night on Shore--Company to Dinner--"Blue Eyed Mary"--Robert at Prayer-Meeting--Danger of Descending an Old Well--Recovering a Knife Dropped in a Well

V Riley--A Thunderstorm--Ascertaining the Distance of Objects by Sound--Security Against Lightning--Means of Recovering Life from Apparent Death by Lightning

VI The Only Way to Study--Taking Cold--Riley's Family--The Hare Lip--Fishing for Sheephead--Frank Choked with a Fish Bone--His Relief--His Story of the Sheep's Head and Dumplings--"Till the Warfare is Over"

VII Bug in the Ear--Visit to Fort Brooke--Evading Blood-Hounds--Contest with Dogs and Means of Defence--Amusing Escape from a Wild Bull and Conversation on the Subject

VIII Marooning and the Marooning Party

IX Embarkation--Abduction Extraordinary--Efforts to Escape--Alternative Hopes and Fears--Despair--Vessel in the Distance--Renewed Hopes and Efforts--Water-Spout--Flash of Lightning and its Effects--Making for Shore--Grateful Acknowledgments

X Waking Up--Good Resolutions--Alarm--Marooning Breakfast--Search for Water--Unexpected Gain--Oyster Bank--Fate of a Raccoon--The Plume and Fan

XI Discussion Of Plans--Doubts--Differences of Opinion--What Was Agreed Upon--Baking a Turkey Without an Oven--Flying Signal

XII Results of the Cookery--Voyage--Appearance of the Country--Orange Trees--The Bitter Sweet--Rattlesnake--Usual Signs for Distinguishing a Fanged And Poisonous Serpent--Various Methods of Treating a Snake Bite--Return

XIII Disappointment--The Live Oak--Unloading--Fishing Excursion--Harold's Still Hunt--Disagreeable Means to an Agreeable End

XIV Frank's Excuses--Curing Venison--Marooning Cookery--Robert's Vegetable Garden--Plans for Return--Preparation for the Sabbath

XV Their First Sabbath on the Island, and the Night and Morning that succeeded

XVI A Sad Breakfast--Sagacity of Dogs--Search for the Boat--Exciting Adventure--A Pretty Pet--Unexpected Intelligence

XVII Mary and Frank--Examination of the Tent--Smoke Signal--Devices--Brute Messenger--Raft--Blazing the Trees--Voyage--Disastrous Expedition--News from Home--Return to the Tent

XVIII Night Landing--Carrying a Wounded Person--Setting One's Own Limbs when Broken--Splinting a Limb--Rest to the Weary

XIX The Surprise and Disappointment--Naming the Fawn--Sam's Story--Depression After Excitement--Great Misfortune

XX Speculations and Resolves--Fishing--Inventory of Goods and Chattels--Roasted Fish--Palmetto Cabbage--Tour--Sea-Shells, Their Uses--The Pelican--Nature of the Country--Still Hunting--Wild Turkeys Again--Work on the Tent

XXI Rainy Day--The Kitchen and Fire--Hunting the Opossum

XXII Frank and His "Pigs"--The Cage--Walk on the Beach--Immense Crawfish--The Museum--Naming the Island

XXIII Their Second Sabbath on the Island, and the Way They Spent It