Nearing Bellow's Falls, the people were more enlightened and many offers of hospitality were sung out to him from shore.

The citizens of that place displayed a deep interest in his attempt to shoot the falls and rendered all the assistance in their power.

He shot them in safety, though narrowly escaping a big log that was dashed over directly behind him.

From that point to the completion of the voyage, he everywhere met with kind words and encoragement.
On the evening of November seventh, he landed at Saybrook light, sixteen days from Stratford Hollow.
The winter of 1879 and 1880 was spent in Florida, hunting, fishing, alligator shooting and canoeing.

He and a party of friends made a canoe voyage far up on the St.John's river and through the Kissimmee to Lake Okeechobee, where they had a great deal of sport shooting deer, bears and alligators; but at the same time the numerous moccasins and rattlesnakes afforded more amusement than was relished by several of the party.