The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-10
CAPE SABLE IS
A HUNTER'S
PARADISE
Interesting Account of Several
Days Spent There by a Miami
Sportsman.

Harry NJ. Evans, a Miami sports
man, contributes the following inter
estng account Of a trip to Cape Sable
&c the Miami Metropolis:
Many Of the winter visitors TO Mi
aIni are of the class who love field
sports; who find sweet music in the
spiteful crack of the Winchester and
the whiz Of the reel, and perhaps it
may not be generally known to them
that Miami is in very easy reach OF
one Of the very best hunting grounds
in the United States today
Being an enthusiastic lover of gun
ana rod myself ana always looking
for the best place to gratify my love
for the sport and to collect and
mount specimens of natural history
decided to make a trip into adjacent
fields and learn what I could of the
game which I had been told abOunded.
Ny trip was success, and as I secur-
eG Information of value to the sports
men who annually visit Miami, I viii
gladly share it with my kinsmen.
Bound for Cape Sable.
On Novembet s. Mr.. E. A. McElrOy
and myself sailed for Cape Sable.
which Is about $50 miles below Mi
ami, as we sail it, and the most south
eTly point of the mainland. The route
IL very circuitOus but one Of interest
: and involves some of FlOrida's most
4 exquisite scenic beauty. The trip as
a cruise is one to enthuse the rover.
while the channels and canals literal
Is swarm with fish, both large and
small which are easily taken. On Our
second day out thinking to diversity
our sport, during a calm and a low
tide we noticed many large re0'hsh
and shark feeding near a mud fat
and taking our two Winchester rifles
and a sluff, drifted i'm among them;
the sport began, and was sport really
and truly, until encouraged by our re-
4 peated ability to perforate the reddish
q large shark nearby tempted us and
letting the big fellow come within a
ngzen feet of the boat we let ly a bull
let at the top of his broad head and
another in his back near the big fin.
A Double Surprise.
The result was perhaps as great a sur
! prise to ourselves as to the shark: as
I l. a blast of dynamite had exploded
under him. the big fellow leaped into
+ the air carrying barrels of water and
+ the descent promised to swamp our
frail craft. The shark apparently
/ 4 mned, crazy and furious, turned
upon his back made a circuit of our
boat, then-still on his back-aarted
straight at us, hitting us amidship and
half filling the boat This was evil
IDENTIFY as much of a surprise to the
shark again as to ourselves. for it at
once righted itself and made a fren.
zied dash for deeper water: reaching
/ Il his great tail fairly whipped the
water into a boiling mass. Things
were getting more serious this time
than enjoyable. and We would have
gladly backed of if We had had a fair
wind. but his royal nibs wasn't
through. Another rapid series of evO-
lutiOns kept our craft b0bbin'g around
at a rate that drew on all our time
and agility to keep In it. until at last
like catapult he shot high up on the
mud fat and stranded, very much "a
our relief. We had not lost any more
sharks-our appetite for diversion was
/ thoroughly satisfied and thinking we
had a greater longing for a dish OF
/ fish chOWder We left our victim flOun
dering spasmOaically In the mud and
returned to the yacht fully determin-
ed not to star" anything with a
shark again.
People Hospitahle.
In due time after a fine trip we put
in to FlamingO Flats and dropped an
Choir in front of the home of Eugene
Roberts. one Of about a dozen families
who constitute the population of the
Cape. Every courtesy was extended
US by these kindly people who possess
that degree Of kindheartedness found
Only among frontiersmen. He knew
where the game was and was ready
with valuable information and advice
The next day after our arrival. while
all were in AIr. Roberts's yard. Bos
bought. a neighbor, came excitedls
into our midst With the information
that three bears were tearing I'D AM
bills on the edge OF the prairie. 8
short distance down the road. Id did
not take long to get our party In mo
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