Marooning from Tampa to Key West--Drum-fish--Loons--Acrobat fleas--Roaches--Bilge-water--The Methodist preacher and his children--Sailor's fare--Landing lady-passengers--Terrasilla Island and its products--Madam Joe--The romantic young couple--Sarasota Bay--Stock-raising--Health--Mangrove thickets--Perpetual verdure--Palmetta houses--Striking for fish--Varied amusements for visitors--Hunting deer--Bugs and butterflies--Egmont Key--Rare shells and a rarer Spiritualist, with his toothless wife--Professor Agassiz--Buccaneers--Jean Lafitte--Sunset at sea--Isles of the sea--Boca Grande--Felippe the Spaniard, and his Indian concubines--Polly goes West for money--Punta Rassa, the terminus of the International Telegraph. CHAPTER XXII.....313 Alone with God and the stars--Phosphorescent waves--Reefs and coral formation--Key West--Cocoa-trees--Chief of the Everglades--Dwellings--Inhabitants--Early settlers--Conchs--Their origin and occupation--Court of Admiralty--Wrecking--The International Telegraph Survey--Public schools--The sisters--Cigar-makers--Reading while working--Monkey-jugs and their use--Cochineal--Sponge and spongers--Fort Taylor and other fortifications--Curiosity-shop--Captain Dixon its Greek keeper. CHAPTER XXIII.....327 Middle Florida and South Georgia--Jealousy between Middle, and East Florida--Good landed titles in Middle Florida--Disappointment the result of overestimation--No spot with every thing desirable--Diseased people tinctured with a sullen melancholy--Lake City--Derivation of the name--The citizens--Style of architecture adapted to the climate--Products--Atmosphere for asthmatics--Monticello--Its people--Former wealth evidenced by the numerous freedmen--Good hotel here--The festive frogs: great variety, some with loud-sounding voices--The "pretty frog" that went to England--The singing-wasp--Tallahassee, where De Soto spends his first winter, 1539--The Spanish soldiers and their armor--Town incorporated, 1825--Corner-stone of the capitol laid, 1826--Situation of Tallahassee--Governor Reed's message, 1840--Blood-hounds and leash-men from Cuba--Two Indians caught by them--Bounties on heads--Indian scare--Only a goat--Indians attack wagons, relieving negroes of their clothing--Former wealth and culture in Tallahassee--Colonel Murat and his mother come to America--Visit the Catholic Bishop, but not in regal style--The neighbors are disappointed in a king's son--Birthplace, home, and early associations of the gifted authoress, Mrs. Mary E. Bryan--Wakulla Spring, with a beautiful description by Bartram--Chattahoochee--State penitentiary--Montgomery and Eufaula route to Florida--Town of Quincy--Mountain-streams with a musical cadence--Cuban tobacco and scuppernong grapes grown here--Stage communication between Quincy and Bainbridge--Cherokee rose-hedges--Bainbridge--Its decline on account of railway communication--Thomasville--Mitchell House--Gulf House--Embowered