noon
Cornwood drove one team , and I drove the other . Half a mile from the river , we found a settler in a log house , who seemed to be greatly astonished at our sudden appearance , and insisted on knowing how we got there . We told him , and in reply he informed us that the woods were full of game , and no sportsman had been that way for a year . We reached our destination at noon . Titusville consisted of only a few houses ; but the party were gladly taken in by the settlers . Indian River , Halifax River , Mosquito Lagoon , and half a dozen rivers , sounds , lagoons , lakes , and inlets on the Atlantic coast of Florida , are different names for the same shallow body of water , separated from the main ocean by a narrow strip of sand , which extends north and south for two hundred miles . Indian River extends from about twenty-five miles north of Titusville to the inlet , a distance of one hundred miles .