An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . ity of the projecting platform,and if inside space were by chance overcrowded, the trunks and boxes affordedconvenient sittings for tourists who were fond of forest scenery and a quiet smokein the open air. In that respect the improvised vehicles resembled the modernobservation cars, though outriders were wholly unprotected from sun or usually occupied three hours to make the run of fifteen miles across the neckfrom the St. Johns river to the ocean. When special dispatch was demanded
An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . ity of the projecting platform,and if inside space were by chance overcrowded, the trunks and boxes affordedconvenient sittings for tourists who were fond of forest scenery and a quiet smokein the open air. In that respect the improvised vehicles resembled the modernobservation cars, though outriders were wholly unprotected from sun or usually occupied three hours to make the run of fifteen miles across the neckfrom the St. Johns river to the ocean. When special dispatch was demanded anold white horse was substituted to run as express. He would make the transit intwo hours and a half. Of course, the train went light at such times. TheTocoi railroad was the first railroad in Florida. It existed before the such a railroad St. Augustine was practically isolated. The land betweenit and the river was virtually a swamp, in many places without a bottom, and atramway was much cheaper and more easily constructed than a wagon road of vestige of the old plant ^^ ? -^ - IliIwi- =^- , - ^^^ EAPvl,^ i; I 1 \ ? Lui<,L) X The next fall I found the persistent canoe man, N. Bishop, on the Indianriver with Fred A. Ober. Both were naturalists. One was especially in quest offancy feather birds of all colors along the shore and among the swamps andtimber, and up the Oclawaha, including snake birds (plotar anhinge), with a necklonger than its body, which could swim better than they could fly. When a smallexcursion steamer carried tourists up stream at night with a fire power on thebow to help shove the boat around the bends, lots of native birds would bescared off their roosts from the overhanging branches when the flashlight passedunderneath chugging. It was an exciting scatteration. Ober had a wiry workingpartner with him named Jim Russell, who was a keen alligator hunter for theirhides. One time he dove to the bottom of a lagoon a
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