1; "don't waste your breath on that thing.
It's no new thing at all, at all. It was diskivered
a long time a go, and nobody cares a fig for it
now." "Yet," responded No.2, "some of those
old-times people were very enterprising. There
was that great traveller Robinson Crusoe: ye must
confess he was a great man for his time." "The
same who wint to the South Sea Islands and
settled there?" asked the first biographer. "The
"very same man," replied No.2, with animation.
This instructive conversation was here
interrupted by a party of ladies and gentlemen, who
in turn gave their views of canoe and canoeist.
CHAPTER XIII. FROM THE SAVANNAH RIVER TO FLORIDA.
ROUTE TO THE SEA ISLANDS OF GEORGIA. - STORM-BOUND ON
GREEN ISLAND. - OSSABAW ISLAND. - ST. CATHERINE'S SOUND.
- SAPELO ISLAND. - THE MUD OF MUD RIVER. - NIGHT IN A
NEGRO CABIN. - "DE SHOUTINGS" ON DOBOY ISLAND. -
BROUGHTON ISLAND. - ST. SIMON'S AND JEKYL ISLANDS. -
INTERVIEW WITH AN ALLIGATOR. - A NIGHT IN JOINTER
HAMMOCK. - CUMBERLAND ISLAND AND ST. MARY'S RIVER. -
FAREWELL TO THE SEA.
On February 24th, the voyage was again
resumed. My route lay through the coast
islands of Georgia, as far south as the state
boundary, Cumberland Sound, and the St.
Mary's River.
