A BATTLE WITH THE SERPENT 93

CHAPTER X.
THE FELLOW IN THE LOCK-UP 103

CHAPTER XI.
THE HON. PARDON TIFFANY'S WARNING 113

CHAPTER XII.
SUGGESTIONS OF ANOTHER CONSPIRACY 123

CHAPTER XIII.
MR. COBBINGTON AND HIS PET RATTLESNAKE 133

CHAPTER XIV.
THE EXCURSION TO FORT GEORGE ISLAND 143

CHAPTER XV.
A WAR OF WORDS 153

CHAPTER XVI.
GRIFFIN LEEDS AT A DISCOUNT 163

CHAPTER XVII.
POOR GRIFF AND HIS COUNSEL 173

CHAPTER XVIII.
THE EXCURSION TO MANDARIN 183

CHAPTER XIX.
THE ADVENTURES OF AN INVALID 193

CHAPTER XX.
DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF DEPARTURE 203

CHAPTER XXI.
A VISIT TO ORANGE PARK 213

CHAPTER XXII.
FISHING IN DOCTOR'S LAKE 223

CHAPTER XXIII.
TROLLING FOR BLACK BASS 233

CHAPTER XXIV.
GREEN COVE SPRINGS AND GOVERNOR'S CREEK 243

CHAPTER XXV.
ALLIGATOR-SHOOTING ON BLACK CREEK 253

CHAPTER XXVI.
ON BOARD OF THE WETUMPKA 263

CHAPTER XXVII.
UP THE OCKLAWAHA TO LAKE GRIFFIN 273

CHAPTER XXVIII.
AN EXPEDITION TO INDIAN RIVER 283

CHAPTER XXIX.
A MYSTERIOUS SHOT 293

CHAPTER XXX.
SHOOTING IN THE FOREST AND BEING SHOT 303

DOWN SOUTH;
OR,
_YACHT ADVENTURES IN FLORIDA._

CHAPTER I.

MAKING A FLORIDA PORT.

"That's it, as true as you live, Captain Alick!" exclaimed Bob
Washburn, the mate of the Sylvania, as he dropped the spy-glass from
his right eye. "Your dead-reckoning was correct every time."

"I have no doubt you are right, Washburn," I replied, referring to an
open volume that lay on the shelf under the forward windows of the
pilot-house. "'A square tower, painted white, sixty-eight feet above
the sea,'" I continued, reading from the _Coast Pilot_. "But there
is another tower, more than twice that height. Ah, here is a note in
pencil I made: 'The government has built a new