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Stopped from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. at [[red underline]] New Smyrna [[\red underline]] a quiet little place a few shops and two or three hotels.   People seem mainly bent on [[red underline]] fishing [[\red underline]] here.
Later on thru [[red underline]] Hillsborough River [[\red underline]] then in [[red underline]] Mosquito Lagoon [[\red underline]] thru crooked and sometimes difficult channels on account of great shallows near.
Mosquito Lagoon itself is a big sheet of water.
Dropped anchor towards night [[red underline]] but saw not a single mosquito. [[\red underline]]

Nov.22
A quiet night.  Stars and moon unusually bright.  Next morning about 8.00 P.M. on our way following navigation ports towards

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[[red underline]] Haulover canal.  Ducks [[\red underline]] and other [[red underline]] birds [[\red underline]] everywhere in large quantity.  Hauler Canal at first somewhat perplexing then easy to follow.   A straight cut thru high bank.
Palmetto and other woods.
Seems [[red underline]] cheerful place for camping or fishing.  Fishermen live there. [[\red underline]]  Their nets are hung to dry on racks everywhere.  Waters must be very abundant in fish.  Fish jumping out of water everywhere.  [[red underline]] Albert [[\red underline]] since some days [[red underline]] has caught the fishing fever and catches one fish after another [[\red underline]] as soon as he throws out his hooks.  Sometimes uses some bait over again for several fishes.  Now we enter the [[red underline]] Indian [[\red underline]]