Canoemates: A Story of the Florida Reef and Everglades - Kirk Munroe

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE

1893

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I.]	In the Far South	1
[II.]	Three Canoes, and the Fate of One	8
[III.]	Sumner Receives a Second Offer	18
[IV.]	Teaching a Thief a Lesson	26
[V.]	The Great Florida Reef	33
[VI.]	Pineapples and Sponges	41
[VII.]	Mysterious Disappearance of the Canoes	49
[VIII.]	Life on the Lonely Island	57
[IX.]	The Nocturnal Visitor	64
[ X.]	Whose Are They? and Where Did They Come From?	73
[XI.]	Sumner Drifts Away on a Raft	80
[XII.]	Picked Up in the Gulf Stream	89
[XIII.]	A Mystery of the Reef	96
[XIV.]	Worth and Quorum are Missing	105
[XV.]	Worth and Quorum in Search of Sumner	112
[ XVI.]	A Night in Alligator Light	121
[ XVII.]	An Entertainment on the Key	128
[XVIII.]	Off for the Everglades	137
[XIX.]	The Canoes are Again Lost, and Again Found	145
[ XX.]	The Psyche as a Life-boat	153
[XXI.]	Sumner's Self-sacrifice	160
[XXII.]	Good-bye to the Transit	168
[ XXIII.]	Worth Meets a Panther	175
[XXIV.]	Rattlesnakes and Rifle-shots	184
[ XXV.]	Worth's Lonely Night-watch	192
[XXVI.]	The Florida Everglades	201
[XXVII.]	A Prehistoric Everglade Mound	209
[XXVIII.]	What Became of Quorum and the Canoes	218
[XXIX.]	A Very Serious Predicament	226
[XXX.]	Quorum as an Ambassador	234
[XXXI.]	A Closely Guarded Camp	242
[XXXII.]	Crossing the 'Glades Without Seeing Them	250
[XXXIII.]	An Adventurous Deer-hunt	258
[XXXIV.]	Hemmed In by a Forest Fire	266
[XXXV.]	The Boys in a Seminole Camp	275
[XXXVI.]	One of the Rarest Animals in the World	284
[XXXVII.]	Fishing for Sharks	292
[XXXVIII.]	Little Ko-wik-a Sails Out to Sea	301
[XXXIX.]	A Black Squall and the Stranded Steamer	308
[XL.]	The Happy Ending of the Cruise	317