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Jupiter River June 19 Friday
Slight rain early and late today.
As I went to bed very tired had a
restless night.
At 4 A.M. Poore called us at the
camp and said the tide and winds were
favorable to get out of the river into the
sea. By 4.30 they had moved out of the
Jupiter mouth where we had been for
four days, about 2 1/2 days longer than I
wanted to stay.
At 7.30 we are in front of South West Lights
and they salute us with The Flag. At 8 Poore
and William Graham in the next canoe last
to get our bag of sandwiches finished and by 8.15
are away again for the Salt Laken.
We arrive at the lower of the Salt Lakes
at 11 A.M. and find the coast a very low