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Title: Down South
or, Yacht Adventure in Florida

Author: Oliver Optic

Release Date: February 8, 2008 [EBook #24554]

Language: English

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THE GREAT WESTERN SERIES.

I.
GOING WEST; or, The Perils of a Poor Boy.

II.
OUT WEST; or, Roughing it on the Great Lakes.

III.
LAKE BREEZES; or, The Cruise of the Sylvania.

IV.
GOING SOUTH; or, Yachting on the Atlantic Coast.

V.
DOWN SOUTH; or, Yacht Adventures in Florida.

VI.
UP THE RIVER; or, Yachting on the Mississippi.

(_In Press._)

_THE GREAT WESTERN SERIES_

DOWN SOUTH
OR
YACHT ADVENTURES IN FLORIDA

By

OLIVER OPTIC

AUTHOR OF YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD, THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES,
THE WOODVILLE SERIES, THE STARRY FLAG SERIES, THE BOAT
CLUB STORIES, THE LAKE SHORE SERIES, THE UPWARD
AND ONWARD SERIES, THE YACHT CLUB SERIES,
THE RIVERDALE STORIES, ETC.

_WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS_

BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM
1881

COPYRIGHT,
1880,
By WILLIAM T. ADAMS.

Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry
No. 4 Pearl Street.

TO MY YOUNG FRIEND,
WILFORD L. WRIGHT,
_OF CAIRO, ILL._,

EX-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL AMATEUR PRESS ASSOCIATION,
WHO HAD THE COURAGE AND THE SELF-DENIAL TO
RESIGN HIS OFFICE IN ORDER TO PROMOTE
HIS OWN AND OTHERS' WELFARE,

This Book
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

"Down South" is the fifth and last volume but one of the "Great Western
Series." The action of the story is confined entirely to Florida; and
this fact may seem to belie the title of the Series. But the young
yachtman still maintains his hold upon the