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Updated: June 29, 2025
At half-past eight, as requested by the chief of police through Washburn, Ben Bowman and I went on shore to attend the mayor's court. I had started in season to call on Colonel Shepard, to whom I related all the events of the preceding evening, including my interview with the Floridian.
His adventures and experiences in Florida, he has embodied in his Floridian Episodes, "The Live Oakers," "Spring Garden," "Deer Hunting," "Sandy Island," "The Wreckers," "The Turtles," "Death of a Pirate," and other sketches.
Having undertaken to quiet the Floridian outbreaks he was determined to accomplish his end, whatever the consequences of some of his means. With the country the New Orleans victor, who had now dared to hang a British subject, was ten times a hero, but the deed confused and troubled Monroe's cabinet not a little.
Brickland about it, and he told me to go up and see what it was." "Where was Mr. Brickland at that time?" demanded Cornwood. "Mr. Bowman is answering my question, Mr. Cornwood, and you will not interfere," I interposed, for the Floridian appeared to have taken upon himself the duty of counsel for the octoroon. "I beg your pardon, captain," replied Cornwood with a deferential bow.
"You will have a berth in the forward cabin, and mess with the officers." "You will have no occasion to regret what you have done," said the Floridian, confidently. "I hope not. Now, can you find a waiter for me?" I continued, explaining the need of additional help in the steward's department. "A waiter!
"I did not see them there, Captain Passford; but it was your uncle's business to look after them, as he was doing in St. Andrew's Bay." "Then my uncle has vessels in that bay which are to run out?" inquired Christy, deeply interested in the revelations of the skipper. "Only one, sir: a steamer of five hundred tons, called the Floridian." "Precisely; that is the vessel we are after.
Cornwood had evidently "studied up" on alligators; and I was quite interested in his comparison of the different reptiles, for I had supposed they were all alike. "You can't very well help seeing them when you go up the river, for some of the streams we shall doubtless explore are full of them," added the Floridian. "Are you not afraid of them?"
At eight bells, or noon, a steamer was discovered coming out of the bay by a channel between two islands. She carried the American flag over the Confederate, and no one doubted that she was the Floridian. In half an hour she was alongside, and she looked like a fine vessel, for she had come from the other side of the ocean as a blockade-runner. Mr.
Owen and Miss Edith had not paid any attention to Mr. Cornwood's lessons in natural history. Both of them had evidently voted the Floridian a bore. My cousin thought it was time to return to the hotel, where the band was playing for the benefit of the people. All the party had collected there, and we soon started for the steamer.
The passage was not a long one; two days after its departure the Tampico, having made four hundred and eighty miles, sighted the Floridian coast. As it approached, Barbicane saw a low, flat coast, looking rather unfertile. After coasting a series of creeks rich in oysters and lobsters, the Tampico entered the Bay of Espiritu-Santo.
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