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moccasins, Charles went in first. His bathing attire consisted of a
white straw hat, and his clothes were tied on the back of his head. In
a newspaper article, "The Lost Causeway", John Anderson wrote: "In
the middle of the stream Charley's hat blew off, and his evolutions in
recapturing it with the bundle of clothes bobbing about above his
shoulders must have amused the neighboring alligators." After
Charley was safely across, Anderson shed his clothes and swam to
join Bostrom on the other side of the creek. The men then hiked over
the marsh on the causeway until they arrived at some open
flatwoods, and from there they continued to Buckhead Bluff, an
outcropping of coquina rock on the east bank of the Tomoka River
near where the King's Road crossed it.
The men then retraced their steps, and swam the creek again before
returning late in the afternoon through the woods above Ormond.
John Anderson wrote triumphantly, "And that night in camp we, two
followers of the lost causeway, told the adventures of the day."

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