“All must know when spring comes, whether in the Everglades or the New England pastures” 124 “The others began nest building and placed some fifteen hundred nests on the three-acre island” 134 A little group of half-grown young pelicans on the edge of Pelican Island 138 “Up with the full tide come sometimes the tarpon, rolling silvery bodies in the dark water” 144 “A manatee, rare indeed nowadays” 148 “Sabal palmettos whose cabbage heads tower often as high as the pines” 154 “As quick night glooms the river the passing sun caresses the palmettos last” 162 “A superb dignity of pose, statues of frozen alertness” 164 A little blue heron and her nest, the commonest Florida heron 168 A Seminole village deep in the flat woods of Southern Florida 178 The gray of dawn on the Indian River 192 “The tree is lavish to its friends and will produce fruit almost beyond belief” 198 “Thirty miles across the barrens these have come, from groves out at Fort Drum” 200 “A rubber tree twined its roots about a palmetto till it crushed the trunk to a debris of rotten wood” 210 “The river is screened from your view by dense growth of palmettos” 212 “My first glimpse came at one of these places” 222 “The heat and steam of the sub-tropical swamp hatches the eggs without further trouble” 224 “There, too, is the mingling of a score of wee, wild scents from the jungle” 232 The “traveler’s tree” in a Palm Beach garden 234 “It is the cocoanut palms that put the touch of picturesque adventure on the place” 238 Into the miraculous sea 244 “By and by the road leaves the embankment and winds totteringly out on piling” 248 “As one holds his breath in suspense the road comes to a stop at the western tip of Knight’s Key” 250 Gathering turtle’s eggs on a Florida beach 252 FLORIDA TRAILS CHAPTER I GOING SOUTH WITH THE WARBLERS