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Updated: April 30, 2025
If I had been well and strong as usual, the discomforts of such a journey would not have seemed so much to me; but I was still weak from the effects of the fever, and annoyed by a worrying toothache which there had been no dentist to rid me of in our village. Having paid and dismissed the boat's watchman, we started and traveled till eleven to-day, when we stopped at this cotton-shed.
Thus, one afternoon, as I remember, I had been reading Keats, the only book I had brought with me, not counting manuals, of course, which come under another head, and by and by started once more for the pine lands by the way of the cotton-shed hammock, "to see what I could see."
For the first half-mile the road follows one of the old Turnbull canals dug through the coquina stone which underlies the soil hereabout; then, after crossing the railway, it strikes to the left through a piece of truly magnificent wood, known as the cotton-shed hammock, because, during the war, cotton was stored here in readiness for the blockade runners of Mosquito Inlet.
I contrived to keep this up till, as the chill before dawn came, they abated and I got a short sleep. Then, with the aid of cold water, a fresh toilet, and a good breakfast, I braced up for another day's baking in the boat. Having paid and dismissed the boat's watchman, we started and traveled till eleven to-day, when we stopped at this cotton-shed.
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