From Jacksonville to Cedar Keys--The Florida Central--Baldwin--Alligators and moccasins--West India Transfer Railroad--Piney Woods--Trail Ridge--Lawtey--Starke--Turpentine distillery--Serenades--Waldo--Alachua county--Hummock-lands and phosphates--The indignant Boston lady--Alachua settled in 1750 by an Indian named Secoffe--Juggs or sinks--Approach to Gainesville--This town named for General E. P. Gaines--Accommodations for visitors--Tillandsia and its uses--Orange Lake the natural home of the orange--Budded trees--Eucalyptus-tree for malarial districts--Information on the subject of lands--Orange City, Arredondo, Albion, and other prospective cities--Bronson--Its good settlers--Otter Creek--"Great Gulf Hummock"--Its tropical growth. CHAPTER XIX.....270 Cedar Keys, the terminus of the West India Transit Railway--Extortion--Dr. McIlvaine's Hotel--Fourth of July toasts, 1843--Steamers from Cedar Keys to Manatee--Early settlement of Clear Water Harbor--The unfortunate Narvaez--Inaccessibility of South Florida--Manatee--Its dwellings embowered among orange trees--Tenacity of contesting Indians--Their independence subdued by association--The cactus pear eaten by Indians--Present population--Church privileges for worship--Schools--Good physicians--Sowing before reaping--Boarding-Houses kept as sanitariums--Pantry supplies--Fine fish--An Elysium for rheumatics--No starving--The grape-culture suggested--Also wine-making--A variety of crops--Sugar-cane ratooning for six years--Old-fashioned bees in gums--This locality a fine resort for those who wish to avoid cold--The sunny-side of nature turned out in February--Oleander and orange-buds bursting their pink and white petals--The banana--Spring flowers, etc.--Zephyr breezes--The rose--"A child of summer"--Historic records--Hon. Judah P. Benjamin--Remains of the mastodon and megatherium. CHAPTER XX.....285 Tampa--Undisturbed slumbers--First settlement by Narvaez--Poor Juan Ortiz!--His vigils among the dead--Espiritu Santo Bay--De Soto and his festive soldiers--Billy Bowlegs--Cedar and pine lumber-mills in Tampa--A school and its teacher--Old Tampa--Uses of the cabbage palm--Fort Brooke--Appeal of General Worth to the vanity of Coacoochee, which finally results in his band being sent West--An invocation to the Great Spirit during a storm. CHAPTER XXI.....296