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Title: Florida and the game water-birds of the Atlantic coast and the lakes of the United States : with a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell, 1829-1906
Subjects: Waterfowl shooting Shotguns
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd Company
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Meu, preparedthe turkey that we had purchased at Kitty Hawkfor cooking, by stutling it with the oysters thatwe had tonged at Eoanoke Island. By the timethis culinary feat was accomplished, our master offish culture had returned. He had cut a dozenstakes about eight feet long, which were to be usedto improvise a blind, by thrusting them into thebottom and tying strings around from one to theother, and hanging reeds or grass tied in bunchesover the strings. These precautionary measures being taken, we gotunder-way. The wind had increased to almost agale, and our brave little vessel fairly leaped beforeit towards the South like a race horse. Quite a seahad made in the broad expanse of Pamlico Sound,which can be stormy enough when in the humor,and the waves rolled after us in vain and vindictivefury. There were two large steamers going South,and we held them for some time, and had hoijes ofkeeping up with them, but they slowly drew ahead,and left us alone in the waste of tumultuous waves.
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^r^?i)ii^: THE I)SrLA)SD PASSAGE. 41 We made one of our best runs that day. Theweather was too perfect for us to stop for fish orbirds, although we saw clouds of the latter risingup in the distance from the disturbed surface of theSound. We ought to hare gone to Hatteras, orRoanoke Inlet, where we had been assured by theresidents the brant shooting was magnificent, butwe could not lose such unusually favorable weather,and sped on and on through the seething waves,hour after hour, till when the sun Avas still quitewell above the horizon, we ran through the narrowchannel into the peaceful waters of Core Sound. What a change came over the spirit of our sail-ing, from the boisterous violence and rough seasthat beat our vessels sides turbulently, or followedus fiercely to the scarcely ruffled bosom of the smalland shallow bay, only a few miles wide, and shut inon all sides by the land. We managed to reachLewiss Creek before sunset, where we saw a numberof working boats going to find securi

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