{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "(lass\\nBook\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE\\nIN\\nFL O E I D A\\nA HANDBOOK\\nFOR\\nSPORTSMEN AND SETTLERS.\\nCOMPILED BY\\nCHARLES HALLOCK,\\nAuthor of The Fishing Tourist.\\nOF CO^?Q^\\nPUBLISHED BY\\nFOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY.\\nAMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, AGENTS.\\n1876.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "COPYRIGHT, 1875, by CHARLES HALLOCK.\\nElectrotyped by Smith McDougal, 82 Beekman Street, New York.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "I^JSCR^IBED\\nTO THE FR.IENDS op\\nmcOD;%", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nPrefatory 7\\nI. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Birds-eye Gla :ce at Florida 16\\nII. Outfit for Sportsmen 26\\nIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hints for Southern Hunting 30\\nIV, Coastwise Routes of Travel 35\\nv.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Game Animals and Blrds of Florida 41\\nVI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Game Fish of Florida 50\\nVII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Three Months in Florida for One Hundred\\nDollars 67\\nVIII. Supplementary Hints for Cheap Recreation. 85\\nIX. Up the St. Johns Ri\\\\t:r 92\\nX. Indian River 102\\nXL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Florida the Promised Land 107\\nXII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fort Capron 113\\nXIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fishing at St. Augustine 118\\nXIV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Black Bass Fishing on Spruce Creek 123\\nXV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hunting the Panther 127\\nXVI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Environs of Tallahassee 135\\nXVII. Private Dougherty and the Bass 140\\nXVIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pet Birds op St. Augustine 145\\nXIX. Steam Yachting on the St. Johns 151\\nXX. Among the Seminoles 179", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "vi CONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nXXI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the Cypress Swamps li)-i\\nXXII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Gruis:Imq along Suoue 201\\nXXllI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shooting AT Salt Lake 217\\nXXIV. The OKEEcnoBEE Expedition 224\\nXXV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Florida Travel 213\\nXXVI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IIomosassa-Tallaeiassee 259\\nXXVIL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 South West Florida 2G4\\n1, Fernandina to Cedar Keys 2G4\\n2. Manatee Sarasota and Gasparilla 209\\n3. Among the Keys 277\\n4. ^Meteorology 284\\n5. Punta Rassa and CaloosaLatcliie 291\\nG. Up tlie Caloosaliatcliie River 296\\n7.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Visit to Okeechobee 305\\n8. Indian Mounds and Canals 312\\n9.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tampa 321\\n10. Subterranean Streams 328\\n11. A Sportsman s Paradise 334\\n12. Suggestions to Tourists 343", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CAMP LIFE IN FLORIDA.\\nPKEFATORY.\\nTHIS Yolume is a compilation Irom the columns of\\nthe sportsmen s journal known as the Forest\\nand Stream. It is, in great part, the outcome of two\\nspecial commissions sent hy the publishers of that paper\\nto explore southern and south-western Florida one\\nof them to Lake Okeechobee, in the winter of 1873-74,\\nand the other, in the winter and spring of 1874- 75, to\\nthe section layed by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.\\nTo some of its readers it will therefore appear at second-\\nhand but republication is justified and extenuated by\\nthe fact that it has been pressed by repeated solicitations\\nof gentlemen who appreciate the yalue of the informa-\\ntion its chapters contain. So little is known of the\\nFlorida Peninsula, and so very meagre are the written\\naccounts of its geography and resources, that the citizens\\nof Florida have, privately and through the press and\\npublic meetings, acknowledged to the editor his substan-\\ntial service rendered to the State. Now, more than ever,\\nIS attention being directed to the Land of Flowers.\\nWinter visitors in vast numbers migrate thither as regu-\\nlarly as the birds of passage. Twenty thousand people", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 PREFATORY.\\nvisited St. Augustine last winter, and will be multiplied\\nin tlie next. The hotel accommodations there have been\\ntrebled within five years, and are still increasing. Not\\nonly at Jacksonville, Green Cove Springs, and other\\nfavorite resorts on the St. Johns river, but also on the\\neastern seaboard and the south-west coast, hotels are\\nbeing erected for use in the approaching season. New\\nsteamers have been added.to the St. Johns river lines,\\nand increased facilities opened for communication with\\nthe North. Agricultural resources have been developed\\nbeyond expectation. Lands have been opened that are\\nrichly adapted to the cultivation of the orange, banana,\\nguava, and pineapple, while the early northern markets\\nfor green peas, cucumbers, strawberries, tomatoes, and\\nmelons, oiler pecuniary temptations to gardeners that\\ncannot be overlooked. Agricultural and emigration\\nsocieties have been established, and newspapers devoted\\nto the economic interests of the State. Land for well-\\nlocated farms has appreciated five times its value in three\\nyears, and real estate has advanced to fancy jDrices at the\\nprincipal watering-places. Northern merchants have\\nbuilt princely residences there considerable settlements\\nhave been made at numerous points on the coast and in\\nthe interior and old familiar places are no longer recog-\\nnized, such changes have a few years wrought. Even\\nthat old travesty on railroads, the wooden line from\\nTocoi to St. Augustine, has given place to iron rails,\\nquick transit, and comfortable passenger coaches. In-\\nvalids throng its health-giving atmosphere and healing\\nsprings. Sportsmen find rich returns in sections that\\nare alive with game, and which, only two years ago, were\\nunknown and inaccessible. There is no place on this\\ncontinent like Florida, for both game and fish.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY. 9\\nAmong other modern improvements, a railroad is\\nprojected, to connect Lake Harris with the St. Johns\\nriver, at Hawkinsville on Lake George. The lands on\\nLake Harris are among the best in East Florida. The\\nscenery is unusually beautiful and attractive. Frost\\nseldom, if ever, injures the sugar-cane it tassels, and\\ngrows from fifteen to twenty feet in height. Lake Har-\\nris connects with Lakes Griffin and Huestis. The\\ntimber around the lakes is tall and stately. Fine fish in\\nabundance abound in their waters. This section is\\nhealthy, and is rapidly filling up with ncAv settlers, and\\nwill in a few years become one of the most interesting\\nsettlements in this country. These settlers find much\\nprofit in the culture and sale of fruits and vegetables for\\nthe early northern markets. Even in the interior of the\\nState, notably at Lake City, many of the citizens are\\nspeaking of giving up the cultivation of cotton, and turn-\\ning their attention to English peas and other vegetables\\nfor shipment to northern markets. Several intend try-\\ning tobacco, and, if successful, it will soon become a\\nleading production. Eighteen years ago, with the\\nexception of Welaka, scarcely anything was to be seen\\nbut the interminable forests along the St. Johns river.\\nThere Avas scarcely a settlement or clearing to mark the\\nadvance of civilization. What a change noAv ai:)pears\\nlandings, clearings, houses, and orange groA-es map out\\nto the eye of the traA^eller the rapid improvement noAV\\ngoins: on.\\nWith regard to orange culture, the Rural Caroli-\\nnian says that trees can be had at some wild groves for\\nthe getting. At others, ten to tAventy-fiA e cents each\\nis the price. An ordinary sail-boat will carry thirty to\\nseventy-five trees, averaging two inches in diameter, and", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 PREFATORY.\\na round trip of twenty to forty miles can be made with\\na load in tlircc or four days. If judiciously taken up,\\ncarefully handled, and properly planted, from January\\nuntil March, and the sweet bud put in in May or June,\\nthey will grow three or four feet the same year, and\\nsometimes will bear the next. Nearly all will bear the\\nthird year, with proper attention, and the fifth will\\nreimburse all expenses. From the present stand-point,\\nlooking through the experience of others, and taking\\nsuccess as a guide and error as a warning, a straighter\\nand shorter path (fast becoming a plain, well-beaten\\nhighway) can be taken to success. Sweet seedlings,\\nfrom three to five years old, cost twenty-five cents to\\none dollar each, according to age and size. They are\\nhardy, rapid growers, and usually bear the seventh year.\\nThe effect of budding or grafting is the same on them\\nas the sour tree. Field crops are usually made three or\\nfour years, widening each year the space between the\\nrows and trees. The past has presented no difficulty\\nin the way of orange culture, which energy and good\\njudgment will not overcome.\\nOne of the most useful improvements contemplated,\\nis the canal now being laid out by the United States\\nCoast Survey, across the narrow strip of dividing lands\\nbetween the Indian river proper and Mosquito lagoon,\\nwhere the present canal has been cut. This strip of\\nland is coquina rock, soft, and very easy to excavate,\\nabout ten feet above the water, and only eight hundred\\nyards wide from this canal north to the head of naviga-\\nble waters. On the Tomoko the channel is open and\\nclear. The distance is about seventy-five miles. From\\nthence across the land to navigable waters of Haws*\\ncreek, the distance cannot exceed ten miles, and the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY. 11\\naverage height above the water level of both streams\\ncannot be over six feet. No dams or locks will be\\nrequired there will always be water enough. In fact,\\nthese two canals will make Indian river a tributary to\\nthe St. Jolms one hundred times more valuable than\\nthe whole ujiper St. Johns. This scheme, the Palatka\\nHerald says, is receiving the gravest attention of the\\nmost practical men.\\nThere seems no doubt that the population and de-\\nveloped resources of Florida are destined to double in\\nten years. Those who have some prescience will do well\\nnow to take time by the forelock, that they may reap\\ncoming advantages.\\nVery little of value to the sjoortsman, the yachtsman,\\nor the intending settler, remains unsaid in this book re-\\ngarding these abundant resources, or the lines of inter-\\nnal communication. The game and fish are here scien-\\ntifically classified the routes of travel, coastwise and\\ninternal, are accurately outlined ample instructions are\\ngiven to the sportsman and tourist the capabilities and\\nprofits of the soil, with eligible localities for settlement,\\nsojourn, health, or pleasure, are indicated to those who\\ndesire to become j)ermanent or temporary residents.\\nIn its entirety the volume is just what has been long\\nwanted and much asked for and therefore the editor\\noffers no apology for the manner in which its material\\nhas been appropriated and collated. Those who have\\ncontributed to its contents will be recognized as well\\nqualified and reliable.\\nIt may be literally asserted that the southern portion\\nof the peninsula of Florida has never been settled.\\nAncient as was the old Spanish tenure, and obstinately\\ncontested as was the possession of its territory for two", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 PREFATORY.\\ncenturies and a half^ the population at no one period\\nwas ever considerable, while the feeble settlements were\\nwidely scattered and confined to eligible points upon\\nthe lower St. John and the seaboard. The interior was\\noccupied by the Seminole Indians, and the negroes\\nwhom they held as slaves, while the innermost jungles\\nAvherein they dwelt were almost impenetrable, as events\\nproved, even to the well-appointed armies of the United\\nStates, which, forty years ago, were delegated to hunt\\nthem out. When, finally, the great body of the Indians\\nwere induced to migrate to the West, some spirit of\\ncuriosity or adventure, or hope incited by vague state-\\nments of the fertility, fecundity, and tropical luxuri-\\nance of the interior, prompted a few to attempt settle-\\nments there but their advance was invariably barred\\nby a cordon of swam.p, lagoon, and jungle, that swarmed\\nwith repulsive reptiles and noxious insects, making\\noccupation not only unbearable, but dangerous. Never-\\ntheless, the desire that by nature becomes insatiate when\\nunsatisfied, the incentive to explore where mysteries\\nhide, has been burning continually, and attempts have\\nbeen periodically repeated to explore the unknown pen-\\netralia. Occasionally some survivor of the Seminole\\nwar would recall for eager listeners some shadowy\\nreminiscences of a great interior lake, beside whose\\nlimpid shores military outposts were planted after assid-\\nuous toil through the morass that intervened, and dilate\\nupon the luxuriant farms that were found where the Red\\nmen once inhabited.* Tliese statements gave color to\\ntraditional rumors, and stimulated the desire of those\\nLake Okeechobee was frequently visited by officers of the\\nregular army engaged in the several campaigns against the Semi-\\nnoles in that eection. The gallant Captain Grelaud, of the Fourth", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY. 13\\nwho came, to regard the Everglades and Okeechobee as\\na forbidden Eden, which none might enter except by the\\nsesame of some secret portal. The evidences that some\\nundiscovered route existed, by which the lake could be,\\nand had been, reached in earlier times, at last became so\\nindubitable as to determine the publishers of Forest\\nand Stream to fit out an exploring expedition with all\\nthe appliances necessary to success. Volunteers were in\\nreadiness, and the expedition started about December 1,\\n1873. It was headed by Mr. F. A. Ober, a young natu-\\nralist of Massachusetts, possessing all those qualifications\\nindispensable to the accomplishment of its object which\\nare so rarely found in combination, yiz. physical tough-\\nness and endurance, pluck, push, dogged perseverance,\\na thorough knowledge of woodcraft in general and of so\\nmuch of this portion of Florida as he had acquired by\\nprevious visits, skill with the canoe, the rod, and the\\nrifle, and an intelligent acquaintance with drawing, pho-\\ntography, and natural history. To this valuable stock in\\ntrade he added an outfit complete in all its requirements\\nof boats, implements, guides, photographic instruments,\\netc. He was absent four months, and the successful\\nresult is shown in the chapters that follow over the signa-\\nture of Fred Beverly. Only those who have engaged\\nin similar service can appreciate the difficulties that beset\\nhis endeavor. More than twenty miles- of the journey\\nwas accomplished by wading and pushing their boat by\\nhand through swamps swarming with alligators, and\\ninfested with poisonous snakes and all kinds of creeping,\\nstinging, and flying vermin. Mud, water, and heat\\nmade the transit most fatiguing, trailing vines that con-\\nArtillery, once a professor at the United States Military Academy\\nat West Point, now lies buried upon its banks.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 PREFATORY.\\nstantly barred their progress had to be cleared away, and\\nwhenever they found a bit of terra firma solid enougli\\nto camp on, it was scarcely more tlian six inches above\\nthe surrounding mire.\\nOf Lake Okeechobee itself few praises can be sung.\\nIt is a vast lagoon, surrounded by marshes, with shores\\nscarcely above its level in any place. Writers who pre-\\ntended to have visited it, invested it with a romance\\nthat was very far from the realization. It was repre-\\nsented to be studded with islands, and flanked with bold,\\nrocky shores, and forests of mahogany, palmetto, and\\nfragrant magnolia and ruins were found on the islands,\\nand strange creatures inhabited the earth, air, and water.\\nThese, however, are as mythical as was the original fact\\nof its supposed existence.\\nThe second expedition occupied the winter of 1874\\nand the spring of 1875. It covered the whole of south-\\nwestern Florida, a section but little known beyond its\\nlimits, but which is proven to be one of the choicest of\\nthe delectable lands of the State. It Avas under the\\ncharge of Dr. Charles J. Ken worthy, an old campaigner\\nin many foreign countries, but now a resident of Jack-\\nsonville, Florida, whose efforts were heartily seconded\\nand essentially expedited by the officers of the various\\nlines of coastwise and interior communication, who fur-\\nnished him with free passes and transportation for his\\nboat and outfit, whenever asked for, throughout the\\nfield of exploration. The telegraph companies also\\nrendered their services when needed, and at Punta Rassa\\neven provided store room for his boat and implements,\\nthe narrative whereof is written over the signatui-^ of\\nA1 Fresco.\\nIn other chapters the charms of the St. Johns river", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY. 15\\nlife are unfolded by Com. L. A. Beardslee, United\\nStates Navy, and L. W. Ledyard, Esq. in a way to make\\ntliem the most attractive and enjoyable there are a few\\nmiscellaneous sketches by General Jordan, Major H. W.\\nMerrill, and Captain Aug. E. Egbert, United States\\nArmy, and Asa Wall, Esq., of Virginia while the contri-\\nbutions to Natural History by those well-known students,\\nS. C. Clarke, C. J. Maynard, and George A. Boardman,\\nhave a special value to the student and scientist. The\\nbook will certainly not fail of the appreciation it deserves.\\nChas. Hallock, Editor.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "BIED S-EYE GLANCE AT FLOEIDA.\\nIT is a singular fact that for a part of the year at least\\nthree-fourths of Florida is under water. After such\\nan introduction my readers will perhaps tliink that I\\nhave chosen a very unattractive subject, for they can\\nscarcely see what there is that can possibly be interesting\\nin sivamj)s, even though they are vast, and teeming with\\nan exuberant growth of vegetation, or in sluggish rivers,\\nif they do abound in all classes of animal life. Had I\\nnothing to write about, however, excepting the sub-\\nmerged sections, I trust I could find something even\\nthere which would interest and perhaps instruct my\\nreaders. But it must be remembered that the State of\\nwhich I am speaking contains nearly as much land as is\\noccupied by New England, and that notwithstanding\\nthree-fourths of it is under water, the number of square\\nmiles which ai-e never flooded considerably exceed the\\narea of Massachusetts. This country has also considera-\\nble value, and the United States was aAvare of this fact,\\nfor in 1819 $15,000,000 were paid to Spain for relin-\\nquishing her claims. Although the Government has\\ndoubtless committed many errors, this purchase cannot\\nbe considered as one of them. For, aside from the\\nquestion of the protection afforded to our southern bor-\\nders, this peninsula is certainly a desirable acquisition\\nto tlie Union.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "bird s-eye gla:n^ce at Florida. 17\\nThe water which covers so much of Florida is both\\ndetrimental and beneficial to the inhabitants. Much\\narable land is rendered worthless from this cause, but it\\nis by means of the numerous riyers and baj^ous that the\\nsettlers gain ready access to the interior. The St. Johns\\nis the largest river in the State, and forms the principal\\nthoroughfare to the numej ous little towns which are\\nsituated on its banks. As the region through which\\nthis river flows contains as many inhabitants as any\\nother portion of the State, I will endeavor to convey\\nsome idea of this section by describing what I have seen\\nwhile making several trijDS up this stream. I say up,\\nbut as the St. Johns rises nearly two hundred miles\\nsouth of its outlet, this term will perhaps give an errone-\\nous idea, for this is the only river in the United States\\nthat flows directly north, and as the peninsula lies north\\nand south, this stream runs parallel with the coast as far\\nas Jacksonville then turning directly ^ast flows into the\\nAtlantic ocean, within twenty-five miles of the northern\\nboundary of the State, thus traversing in its course\\nnearly two-thirds of the entire length of Florida.\\nJacksonville is the largest city in the State, and\\nalthough of recent growth compared with other towns,\\ncontains about 10,000 inhabitants, and is the centre of\\ntrade. Several lines of small river steamers form the\\nmeans of communication with the interior.\\nI found myself on one of these little steamers early\\none December morning, gliding over the sun-lit waters.\\nThe river for about a hundred miles is very wide, being\\na succession of lakes, on which account the Indians\\nnamed the stream Welaka, which in their language\\nsignifies the river of lakes. These lakes vary from two\\nto ten miles in width, and as tlie boat kept in the mid-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 bird s-eye GLAXCE at FLORIDA.\\ndie, we could see but little of the shores, excepting when\\nwe called at various towns. The small size of these vil-\\nlages surprised me much, for I had long been familiar\\nwith their names on the maps, and although some of\\nthem have been settled for about three hundred years,\\nat tlie time of my JSrst visit, in 18G8, they contained but\\nthree or four houses. Of course, in the days when the\\nSi^aniards occupied Florida these places were much\\nlarger, being important military posts, and formed the\\nhomes of many inhabitants. They have deteriorated\\nmuch* since, but are now growing slowly how slowly\\nmay be seen by the fact that after an absence of four\\nyears I again visited this section and found that some\\nvillages had added only one or two houses to their num-\\nber, while others remained as I had previously seen\\nthem. I have used the term houses in speaking of the\\ninhabited structures along the upper St. Johns, but\\nshanties would perhaps convey a better idea of their\\nappearance. It will be a source of much wonder why\\nthe steamers touched at such places, but it must be\\nunderstood that they are with a few exceptions represen-\\ntatives of the towns in East Florida, and contained post-\\noffices. We stopped then to leave the mail, and fre-\\nquently to take on wood, or occasionally found a passen-\\nger waiting. And odd passengers they were too, many\\nof them genuine Florida crackers.\\nAt a wooding-up station where there was but one\\ndwelling, a queer looking specimen of humanity came\\non board in the shape of a long, lank individual, clad in\\nhomespun. In one hand he carried an old-fasliioned\\nrifle, and with the other led a fine looking horse, upon\\nwhich was strapped a large saddle, with a saddle-bag\\nand an axe-handle hanging on either side. This singular", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "bird s-eye GLA CE at FLORIDA. 19\\nbeing had a powder-horn suspended from his brawny\\nneck, and his matted black hair hung down to his shoul-\\nders, while his unkempt beard reached nearly to his\\nwaist. A pair of sinister eyes looked out from under\\nthe shaggy brows, which were shaded by a slouched hat.\\nHe was evidently a hunter by profession. At one of\\nthese stopping places we dropped a little dried-up man,\\nwhose countenance indicated an uncertain age. He\\nmight have been twenty or even fifty, for he was evi-\\ndently one of the Eip Van Winkle type of men who can\\nlie down and sleep an age or two in the wilderness with-\\nout trouble. From this sleep they will arise half awake,\\nand again jolod through the world, no more or less\\nmusty-looking or dried up than before. Snch men,\\neven while in infancy, have scarcely enough flesh to\\ncover their bones. As they grow older this little ex-\\nimnds, until a certain age, when it hardens then old\\nTime may shake his glass over their heads without pro-\\nducing the slightest effect, or hack at them with his\\nrusty scythe in vain they look not an hour older.\\nSuch was the bodily appearance of the man whom we\\ndropped at this place. He was clad in a very dirty\\nsuit of homespun cotton cloth, while a satchel of the\\nsame material hung at his side. His not very prepos-\\nsessing face was shaded by an old palmetto hat, from\\nbeneath which his long flaxen hair hung in tangled\\nskeins. His stockingless feet, thrust into a pair of\\nbroad-soled shoes, proclaimed him a cracker of the lowest\\nclass.\\nThe steamers move slowly against the current, so\\nthat in twenty-four hours we had accomplished but one\\nhundred miles of our journey, and on the following\\nmorning we were crossing Lake George. This is a very", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "JiO bird s-eye glance at FLORIDA.\\nlarge expanse of water, about ten miles in diameter.\\nAt the southern extremity the river suddenly narrows,\\nso that it is but a few rods across. Here the scenery\\nchanges entirely. The stately live-oaks and pines of the\\nmore northern St. Johns give place to the troj^ical-look-\\ning palmetto and the graccf ul-foliagcd sweet bay. Vege-\\ntation is also much moi c advanced, and as the steamer\\nalmost brushed against the luxuriant foliage, we could\\ncatch the odors of thousands of flowering shrubs grow-\\ning in the dense forest which lay on either side. It was\\nindeed a scene of surpassing loveliness, to which I can\\nscarcely do justice. One must stand, as I stood that\\nmorning, with every sense rapt in profound admiration\\nof the beautiful panorama that was passing before the\\neyes, and with the south wind, laden vv^ith those delight-\\nful odors, blowing gently across the face, to thoroughly\\nappreciate it. For every turn of the now winding river\\ndisclosed new beauties for enjoyment.\\nAt first the brain is confused with the multiplicity\\nof objects that are presented to the gaze. Gradually,\\nhowever, the eye becomes accustomed to the mass of\\ngreen, and selects objects of greater interest from the\\nwhole. From the exuberant growth of creepers and\\nshrubs which line the water s edge, the attention is\\ndrawn to the gray, straight trunks of the palmettos,\\nwith their stiff fan-like fronds. The dark green of\\nthese is relieved by the paler foliage of the sweet gum,\\nwhile high over all hang the giant branches of the lofty\\nblack walnuts drooped with festoons of Spanish moss.\\nLarge bunches of the emblematic mistletoe are brought\\nout in strong relief against the blue sky, with tlieir\\nbright green colors heightened by their more sombre\\nsurroundings. An occasional group of the gloomy", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "bird s-eye glance at FLORIDA. 21\\ncypress might be seen among this sea of living green,\\nraising their dark trunks covered with leafless branches\\nfrom the swampy ground. As we passed onward our\\nattention was attracted by numerous orange groves,\\nwhich were growing upon shell mounds, with the golden\\nfruit relieved by the dark green and shining leaves.\\nThis scene was rendered intensely interesting by the\\nmultitude of birds which swarmed on all sides. Numer-\\nous ducks and gallinules swam among the aquatic j^lants\\non the river s margin. At one point we saw a group of\\nred and black-headed vultures feeding upon the carcass\\nof some animal. Large numbers of wood ducks started\\nup everywhere, flying but a short distance, then tamely\\nsettling down again. Among all this apparently peace-\\nful life the gTeat law of nature, which ordains that her\\nsubjects shall live by preying upon one another, was in\\nfull force. At every few rods along the river was\\nperched a hawk. They sat silent and apathetic, but\\nwere only waiting for the coots and ducks to finish their\\nmorning meal of aquatic life before seizing the plumpest\\nof them for breakfast. High overhead the osprey was\\nsailing with motionless wings, in huge circles, gazing\\nwith eager eyes upon the fishes below. The ever-watch-\\nful bald eagle was perched upon the lofty black walnuts\\nor cypresses, intent ui)on the motions of the fish-hawk.\\nThis magnificent scenery, in which is mingled so much\\nof life and animation, must attract the attention and\\ncall forth the admiration of tlie most casual observer.\\nWhat, then, must be the sensations of the earnest stu-\\ndent of nature Words fail to express the intense\\necstasy that he feels as object after object presents itself\\nto his bewildered gaze. The brain is completely over-\\nwhelmed, and can simply grasp the mingled mass as it", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 bird s-eye glance at Florida.\\nis seen, and in calmer moments arrange each in its\\nproper place.\\nTlie sun had now reached a considerable height, and\\nwas shining hotly on the water. The captain of the\\nsteamer informed us that we might as well be on the\\nlook-out for alligators. About a dozen among the pas-\\nsengers produced rifles or shot-guns, and we took our\\nstations on the upper deck. As we stood near the\\nwheel-house an old negro, who was steering, exclaimed,\\nSee, dar s one at the same time pointing toward a\\nlarge object. His words were followed by tlie sharp\\ncrack of half a dozen rifles, and as many voices excitedly\\nshouted, I have killed him. But the loud laugh\\nfrom some of the experienced hunters, and a broad grin\\non the black face of the pilot, told these amateurs that\\nthey had been sold. Their bullets had merely set free\\nthe gases contained in the carcass of a dead alligator.\\nA short distance beyond this point we saw a flock of\\nabout twenty wild turkeys on the river bank. They\\nwere beneath some orange trees, and were very tame.\\nAs we came in sight of them there was a simultaneous\\ndischarge of fire-arms but in the excitement of the\\nmoment it was entirely without effect. The turkeys\\nscattered right and left, and were soon lost in the thick\\nunderbrush. Soon after this the alligators became quite\\nnumerous, and the deck of the steamer presented an\\nanimated scene, resounding with the sharp crack of\\nrifles. The hideous reptiles were in all positions some\\nwere sleeping on the banks, others half in the water, and\\nsome were swimming swiftly about with only their ugly\\nsnouts and repulsive-looking eyes visible. Sometimes\\none would roll over in his death agony, after receiving a\\nsingle shot. Then the attention of the whole party", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "BIED S-EYE GLAI^CE AT FLORIDA. 23\\nwould be turned to one individual, and lie would escape\\nbeneath the water, pierced with a dozen balls. They\\nwould die in all positions some would turn over upon\\ntheir backs, but oftener they would lie as they had been\\nshot. The most fatal place for a ball to strike appeared\\nto be in the head. The report that a rifle bullet will\\nglance from the back of an alligator is entirely un-\\nfounded, I have seen them shot in every part of the\\nbody, and have yet to meet with a single instance of the\\nkind. The ball always penetrates easily if thrown with\\nordinary force. Many of these reptiles are destroyed by\\nthe passengers of every steamboat which passes up and\\nclown the river, yet their numbers are scarcely dimin-\\nished. The alligator grows to a large size, some measur-\\ning seventeen feet in length. The large ones are quite\\ndangerous, but a closely allied species the cayman, of\\nSouth America, which is occasionally found in Florida\\nis particularly noticable for its fierceness. I have met\\nwith it but once.\\nThree of us were crossing the country which lies\\nbetween Lake Harney and Indian river, on foot, when\\nwe came to a dense swamp. As we were passing\\nthrough it we discovered a huge reptile, which resem-\\nbled an alligator, lying in a stream just to the right of\\nour path. He was apparently asleep. We approached\\ncautiously within ten rods of him and fired two rifle\\nshots in quick succession. The balls took effect just\\nbefore his fore leg, and striking Tvithin two inches of\\neach other, passed entirely through his body. As soon\\nas he felt the wounds he struggled violently, twisting\\nand writhing, but finally became quiet. We waded in\\nand approached him, as he lay on a bed of green aquatic", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 bird s-eye glance at Florida.\\npliints with his liead toward us. It was resting on the\\nmud, and one of tlie party was about to place his foot\\nupon it, when a lively look in the aninuirs eyes deterred\\nhim. Stooping down, he picked up a floating branch\\nand lightly threw it in the reptile s face. The result\\nwas somewhat surprising. The huge jaws opened\\ninstantly, and the formidable tail came round sweeping\\nthe branch into his mouth, where it was crushed and\\nground to atoms by the rows of sharp teeth. His eyes\\nflashed fire and he rapidly glided forward. Never did\\nmagician of Arabian tale conjure up a fiercer looking\\ndemon by wave of his wand, than had been raised to lif^\\nby a motion of the branch. For a moment we were too\\nastonished to move. The huge monster seemed bent on\\nrevenge, and in another instant would be upon us. We\\nthen saw our danger, and quicker tlum a flash of light,*\\nthought and action came. The next moment the gigan-\\ntic saurian was made to struggle on his back, with a\\nbullet in his brain. It had entered his right eye, and\\nhad been aimed so nicely as not to cut the lids. To\\nmake sure of him this time we severed his jugular vein.\\nWhile performing this not very delicate operation, he\\nthrust out two singular-looking glands from slits in his\\nthroat. They were round and resembled a sea-urchin,\\nbeing covered with minute projections. They were\\nabout the size of a nutmeg, and gave out a strong musky\\nodor. We then took his dimensions, and found that he\\nwas over ten feet in length, while his body was larger\\nround than a flour barrel. The immense jaws were\\nthree feet long, and when stretched open, would readily\\ntake in the body of a man. They were armed with rows\\nof sharp white teeth. The tusks of the lower one, when", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "bird s-eye glance at FLORIDA. 25\\nit was closed, projected out through two holes in the\\nupper, which fact proved to us that it was not a com-\\nmon alligator, but a true crocodile {Crocodilus acurus).\\nThis is the second instance on record of the capture of\\nthis reptile in the United States.\\nC. J. MAYlf AED.", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "11.\\nOUTFIT FOE SPOETSMEN.\\nIN preparing for a winter s campaign in Florida, one\\nshould take with him, if practicable, a tent and\\nsmall boat. If they can be shipped by sailing vessel two\\nweeks in advance of his sailing, tliey will reach Jack-\\nsonville in season for use, and at little cost. If sent by\\nsteamer the charge for freight will be enormous. A shot\\ngun, rifle, ammunition, and lishing tackle should be\\ntaken from the North. The tent should be as light as\\npossible, and so constructed that all the room can be\\nutilized. The Ijoat should be small, flat-bottomed and\\nlight. A large sail boat can be hired in Jacksonville at\\na reasonable price, and a man to sail it and do the cook-\\ning. Gun and rifle should be breech-loading, thus\\nsecuring safety and despatch in loading. Eevolvers may\\nbe useful. Big bowie knives are superfluities. Every-\\nbody takes them, and everybody finds them in the way.\\nWear old clothes half the pleasure in camping out is\\nto be able to rough it. Don t put on fancy costumes\\nexpecting to make a spread, as no one will appreciate\\nthe effort or effect. Wear woollen clothing at all times.\\nFor the feet, take good stout shoes, lacing up tightly\\nabout the ankle. A pair of tight (not tight fitting)\\nboots, may be very good for a short, wet walk, but for\\nan all-day s tramp, through swamp and pine-woods.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "OUTFIT FOR SPORTSMEN 27\\nshoes are far superior. Two pairs good woollen, and one\\nrubber blanket. A mosquito bar is indispensable, as\\nmany nights the tormenting insects call their own. If\\nthe country on the coast be yisited, the bar should\\nbe made of thin cotton or lawn, to keep out the sand-\\nflies, insects so small as hardly to be discernible, but\\nwith a bite like the burn of a hot iron. It would be\\nwell to take a little salve and thin plaster for cuts and\\nbruises. In the line of medicine, one can take a whole\\napothecary s shop, if so disposed, but, excepting a little\\nwhiskey and. quinine, the former for snake-bites, which\\nseldom occur, and the latter for imaginary fever, no med-\\nicine will be needed, except for particularly squeamish\\nfolks who think life not w^orth the living out of sight\\nof an E, or quack-doctor s laboratory. For light at\\nnight, a lantern and candles will be sufficient, though ker-\\nosene, where little transportation is to be made, is pref-\\nerable. Buy it in New York in five-gallon can, boxed.\\nIt will ahvays sell for twice its cost. The keen, bracing\\nair gives more pungency to a haunch of venison or brace\\nof quail than all the sauces-piquante ever concocted. A\\nbunch of Spanish moss is infinitely superior to a napkin,\\nand the clear w^aters of some spring to the finger-bowl.\\nAnd here a word as to w^ater.\\nNearly all the w^ater in East Florida is impregnated\\nmore or less with lime, or some mineral or salt that gives\\nit a flat taste to the uninitiated, and a drink of raw\\nunadulterated water is not always acceptable. Some\\npeople qualify it indeed the majority of settlei\\nqualify it so much that the original taste of the aqua\\nis lost in that of the qualifier. That is all a word to\\nthe wise. We advise a plain mode of living. Take hard-\\nbread, self-raising flour, pork, salt, potatoes, brown", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 OUTFIT FOR SPORTSMEN\\nsugar, rice or hominy, Borden s condensed milk, and\\ncoffee, a little jelly for venison, butter, pepper, and\\nmustard. Venison, lish, and game birds may be on the\\nbill of fare every day, but again they may not. No one\\nshould start down the river depending upon a supply, as\\nthe game is regulated and controlled by a multitude of\\nlaws that the visitor knows nothing about. Preserved\\nfruits, meats, etc., are not necessary, though sometimes\\nfound acceptable they don t stay in camp long. Re-\\ngarding cooking utensils, if cooking is to be done in the\\nusual way over an open fire, they should be a bake\\nkettle or oven, a foot in diameter frying-pan, same\\ndimensions, with a long handle tin plate, plated knives\\nand forks, pint tin-cups, iron or tin spoons, and butcher\\nknife. A regular camp kit is preferable, however.*\\nIf a stove is preferred, go to the tin-smith s and have\\nhim make a sheet-iron box, two feet long, one broad,\\nopen at one end. The door a sheet of iron, to slide in a\\ngroove, perpendicularly, acting as a draught regulator.\\nThe legs should be flat, fastened to the box by hinges,\\nshutting under it when i)acked. The pipe small, and in\\njoints, to be packed in the stove. A piece of tin should\\nbe taken to fasten to the tent to run the pipe through.\\nWith a such stove, well suj)plied with light wood or\\n])itch pine, a fire can be sustained that will vacate the tent\\nin short metre. If the camper-out prefers to embark\\nupon one of the many steamers that navigate the St.\\nH. L. Dancklee of Boston, manufactures a very complete\\ncamp stove and kit, which ])ack8 into a small space and is quite\\nportable. Lalance Grosjean, of Beekman street, New York,\\npuj)ply a very desirable kit also. A camp-kettle made by a firm\\nin Marquette, Michigan, is much used by the lumbermen, and la\\nregarded as an acquisition to a sportsman s outfit.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "OUTFIT FOR ^PORTSMEiq 29\\nJohn s, he can reach any point available in East Florida.\\nTo assist him, a list of prices will be given to the differ-\\nent places on the river, as they are reached in a sail\\ndown the stream. The steamers City Point, Dictator,\\nNick King, and Lizzie Baker make the trips to Pilatka\\nseventy-five miles from Jacksonville), upon arrival from\\nSavannah and Charleston. The Florence, a fine steamer\\nmakes daily trips to Pilatka. The Darlington, Hattie,\\nand Starlight, to Enterprise, two hundred miles, twice\\na week, each. The Ocklawaha and Silver Springs to\\nLake Harney and Salt Lake, one week.", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "m.\\nHINTS FOR SOUTHERN HUNTING.\\nTHE Gulf States, with woodljind in unlimited areas,\\nwith broad rivers of fresh water and estuaries\\nwitliout end, with open sea beaches and rocky coral\\nharbors, invite Northern hunters and if perchance he\\nmeets the Southrons in their homes, or at their camps,\\na new and congenial companionshij is assured, that\\nonce enjoyed will not fade from memory, for Southern\\nwelcomes are as broad as Southern fields, and as full of\\nsunshine.\\nIn going far from home there is usually an inclination\\nto carry many articles of impedimenta that are found\\nnot to repay the annoyance of their care. We will not\\ncounsel those who would go with much duffel, as the\\nguides term luggage they will suit their own abundant\\nfancy nor will we hint to the luxurious yachtsman how\\nto store his lockers with dainties, although pleasant\\nmemories recall the way it has been bountifully done,\\nbut will venture on a few simple suggestions that may\\nbe of some value to persons going South.\\nFirst and foremost, as to guns For all but boat\\nshooting, guns to be used under the hot sun that, even\\nin winter, falls on the Southern fields with a fierce heat,\\nshould be light, and not of too large bore, to economize\\nweight of ammunition. A rifie should be short, and\\none chosen that will in opening be free from long levers", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HI:N-TS for SOUTHERiq- HUNTIN G. 31\\nthat may catch in bridle reins, will avoid annoyance. For\\nalligators, the Mead explosive ball is unequalled, and its\\nuse increases very materially the chances of so shocking\\nand stunning those tenacious animals, as to recover\\nthem at once. As they lie on logs, and on slimy banks,\\nthey usually retain life enough to wriggle into the water,\\nwhen they sink but we have shot them with the Mead\\nbullet, and have seen them dash out upon the land, and\\nbe unable to get any command of their movements. All\\nthe talk of a ball glancing harmlessly from their scales\\nmay have been true years ago, but the modern rifle\\ncarries its missiles through the scales and skull, and\\npenetrates any 23art of the animal, even at a long range.\\nFor all but gaitor, the shot gun is the convenient\\narm. Deer are usually ^jumped and shot bounding\\nthrough the large leaves of the low palmetto, and at all\\ntimes one load of fine shot is needed for quail, snipe, and\\nplumaged birds, that are constantly fluttering up.\\nWild turkeys are hard to kill, but often an expert\\ncaller will bring them so near that missing is needless,\\nand the use of a wire cartridge of large shot in one barrel\\nwill do all that can be done to insure success in getting\\nthis superb bird, which is a far finer trophy, and more\\ndifficult to obtain than any that tempts the sportsman\\nfrom his camp while the day has not dawned. The\\nhen turkey should never be shot (she can be readily\\ndistinguished by her color), as the broods will at once\\ndisperse and thus deprive the sportsman of his pastime.\\nQuail should not be shot after the 1st of March.\\nNo dainty split bamboo rods, nor leaders of tinted\\ngut need be carried south of the mountains of Carolina\\nfor the trout, grayling, and salmo solar live not in the\\nstreams that bear away the washings from rich mellow", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 HINTS FOR SOUTHERN HUNTING.\\nbottom lands. The trout of these rivers is a black bass,\\nand when gar-fish, cat-fish and other heavy-mouthed\\nfellows try physical force with the angler, artful devices\\nare not called for but one or two stiff boat rods, all\\nthe better if in pairs with all the joints interchangeable,\\nand some large lines, gimp and wire-mounted hooks,\\nstrong spoons, a gaff and one or two spears for torch\\nfishing, and some ponderous sinkers for tide-ways, will\\nfit the fisherman for all ordinary work. If he wishes a\\nnew sensation, it may be obtained at the end of a half-\\ninch rope, with shark hook and chain, but beware of\\nany coil about the legs, and get up anchor for a tow\\nseaward, if a large shark or swordfish accepts the\\nchallenge;\\nAbout Anastasia Island, St. Augustine, the Minor-\\ncans capture huge swordfish and sharks by fastening\\nthe rope to a post, and carrying the hook out in a boat,\\nleave it, and retire to conduct their share of the conflict\\non terra firma. A boat is as needful in Florida as a\\nhorse on the plains. For short trips from the settle\\nments, notliing will be more convenient, and render the\\nsportsman more independent, than a flat-bottomed boat,\\nwith small sail, centre board, and a water-tight end with\\ntight trap to carry dry clothing, tea, sugar, etc., to\\nprotect from the frequent showers. Floating quietly\\nwith the current or tide, a patient hunter may surprise\\nalmost all the game birds and animals, and he will see\\nmore of interest in the little streams than in miles of\\nthe frequented channels. For exploration and travel a\\nboat eighteen to twenty-two feet long, four and a-half\\nor five feet beam, with the full width carried to the\\nstern, built with a flat keel, and broad bearings to\\ninsure light draft, fitted with centre-board and sail, the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "HINTS FOR SOUTHERIT HUKTING. 33\\nliitter on sliding topmast for compactness, will be found\\nthe best. When anchored, the bow will point to the\\nwind. A tent, open aft, may be hung under the boom,\\nspread with stretchers, and furled sail and with light\\nboards a bed for three or four may be arranged, and\\ncooking by spirit lamp be done at the wide stern.\\nWith such a boat, and two good negroes, boatmen\\n(cooks they generally are), more interesting trips can be\\nmade than with a yacht, and more unfrequented points\\nbe reached. If cruising in the wide waters is intended,\\nsome considerable shear to the bow lines will make a\\ndrier and safer boat, and a canvas bow deck will do\\ngood service. Air cushions will be found very comfort-\\nable, and in mishaps they are invaluable as life-\\npreservers.\\nOne of H. L. Duncklee s stoves will fit out such a\\nparty, but a spirit lamp is very useful to heat water for\\na preventive punch, or for a bowl of soup from Liebig s\\nextract of beef, and with it and an Old Dominion coffee\\npot, excellent hot coffee may be made, or Borden s Ex-\\ntract will give it more simply. Often for miles no hard\\nground is to be found, and some heating apparatus is\\nindispensable. No one should brave the night air of\\nthe everglades without warm and stimulating food and\\ndrinks, and a little quinine will do no harm. Light\\nwines are of great service, and the water flowing from\\nthe swamps will not harmed by a wee drop, and for\\nthe rattlesnake or moccasin bite that never comes, the\\nsame is needful. Prudent ones usually do not wait for\\na bite, but show unbounded confidence in preventive\\nmeasures.\\nFor sleeping in camp, in this animated land of fleas,\\nspiders, and the creeping things, so unfortunately taken", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 UINTS FOR SOUTHERN HUXTING.\\ninto the ark, a Iiammock should be used one arranged\\n(as it may easily be), with a light canvas roof, with sides\\nof netting. Two or three rafter-shaped triangles hung\\non a line will -spread such a shelter, and in a canvas\\nhammock under it, one can rest free from the compan-\\nionship of guides and dogs, and witliout vivid ideas of\\nsnakes and centipedes. Sportsmen are often disabled\\nby the fiercest animal in Florida, the flea. High boots\\nwill be some defence, but keep away from the vicinity\\nof domestic animals, and sleep not in any of the\\ncracker houses, but camp in remote pine woods and\\nkeep the dogs away from the tent. Such forest is com-\\nparatively free from mosquitoes, and in mid-winter the\\nBand-flies are not very annoying.\\nFor minor details the hints common to all hunting\\nwill alford a general idea.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "IV.\\nCOASTWISE ROUTES OF TRAVEL.\\nTT T I^TER is approacliing, and numbers are un-\\nVV doubtedly looking forward with pleasure to the\\nperiod when they will leave Old Boreas in the rear, and\\nbask in the health-promoting sunbeams of Florida and\\nas the present seems an opportune time, I propose fur-\\nnishing a few statements for the benefit of those who\\ncontemplate a visit to this State.\\nAs the south-west coast (the scene of my last winter s\\nwanderings) presents an attractive field for the true\\nsportsman, I shall refer to it in this communication. I\\nfancied that my articles published in the Forest and\\nStream were sufficiently explanatory, but from the\\nlarge number of letters I have received, I find that\\nsomething more is necessary, and I shall endeavor to\\nfurnish the required information.\\nSteamships leave Boston and Baltimore regularly for\\nSavannah. Florida can also be reached by any of the\\nvarious rail routes, and fares ean be ascertained by\\ninquiring at any of the principal offices. Steamships\\nleave New York for Charleston three times weekly, and\\nfrom Philadelphia every Saturday, connecting with rail-\\nroad, and with the stanch, seaworthy, comfortable, and\\nably officered sea-going steamers, the Dictator and City\\nPoint. Fare from New York to Jacksonville, including\\nstate-room and meals, $27.50 excursion ticket, $50.", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "86 COASTWISE ROUTES OF TRATEL.\\nSteamships leave New York for Savannah three\\ntimes weekly, connecting with the steamers Dictator,\\nCity Point, and Lizzie Baker. If travellers prefer it,\\nthey can reach Jacksonville from Savannah by the\\nAtlantic and Gulf railroad. Coupons of excursion\\ntickets will be received by the company. Travellers will\\nfind this road supplied with excellent Pullman cars.\\nGelpcke s line from New York to Fernandina consists\\nof the well-known steamships Huntsville and Montgom-\\nery. The rates by this line are as follows New York\\nto Fernandina, $20, excursion ticket $35 New York to\\nJacksonville, $22.50, excursion $40 New York to\\nCedar Keys, $26, excursion $45 New York to Tampa\\nand Manatee, $3G New York to Punta Rassa, rate not\\nreceived, but presume about $40 New York to Key\\nWest, $46.\\nA direct line to Jacksonville is advertised, but we\\nmust await results before anything definite can be stated.\\nFare to Jacksonville as advertised, $20, excursion ticket\\n135. Jacksonville or Fernandina reached, the sports-\\nman can take railroad, daily except Sunday, for Cedar\\nKeys. If Homosassa is the objective point, a boat can\\nbe hired at from eight to ten dollars for the trip, or if\\ndisposed, the intending tourist or sportsman can com-\\nmunicate with Alfred E. Jones at Homosassa, and if\\ntimely notice is given, Mr. Jones would meet his\\nguests at Cedar Keys and land them at his attractive\\nhome, free of charge. The only difficulty attending\\nthis arrangement is the fact, that there is but one mail\\n])cr week to Homosassa, arriving on Mondays. Homo-\\nsassa can be reached by another route Steamer from\\nJacksonville to Silver Spring, a natural curiosity that\\nshould be visited by every tourist. Hack from Silver", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "COASTWISE KOUTES OF TKAYEL. 37\\nSpring to Ociila, fare one dollar. From Ocala to Homo-\\nsassa, a distance of thirty-six miles, over a good road, in\\ncomfortable vehicle charge for carriage from eight to\\ntwelve dollars, dependent upon number of passengers.\\nBoard at Homosassa, from ten to twelve dollars per\\nweek accommodations good, table excellent fishing\\nand shooting superior and we may add, rooms large\\nand airy verandas spacious fresh milk and butter\\noysters and oranges ad libitum.\\nBronson, a point on the Fernandina and Cedar Keys\\nrailroad, is thirty miles from Homosassa. The ponds\\nin the neighborhood afford fine bass fishing quail and\\nduck are plenty, and the sportsman may succeed in\\nshooting turkeys or deer. Accommodations hotels,\\nfifteen dollars private boarding houses, twelve board\\none dollar per day, or five dollars per week. For infor-\\nmation interview Mr. Gr. Levet.\\nWith the exception of climate, bathing, and fishing,\\nCedar Keys presents but few attractions for tourists or\\nsportsmen. We regret to state that the hotel accom-\\nmodations cannot be recommended as Al. Sportsmen\\narriving at Cedar Keys and requiring information, need\\nbut call upon Mr. Gore, editor of the local paper, or on\\nWillard and Koux, and mention that the liberty taken\\nwas in accordance with the suggestion of Al Fresco.\\nThe steamer Valley City, commanded by that jolly\\nsea-dog. Captain McKay, leaves Cedar Keys every Fri-\\nday for Tampa, Manatee, Punta Eassa, and Key West.\\nParties desirous of ascending the Caloosahatchie river,\\nor of spending a few weeks on the coast, could take\\nsteamer to Punta Eassa, and from there ascend the river\\nor explore Charlotte Harbor. For gaitor shooting,\\nascend the Caloosahatchie to the upper islands, six", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 COASTWISE ROUTES OF TRAVEL.\\nmiles above Fort Myers, and thirty-one from Punta\\nRassa. Above the ishmds the disciple of Old Izaak can\\n})ut in all his spare time in landing cavalli ranging from\\nfive to fifteen pounds. For fight and plnck we can rec-\\nommend this fish. They take the spoon or spinner\\nwithout hesitation, and we are of the opinion that they\\nwould not object to a salmon fly. For hunting and sea\\nfishing we can recommend Tanibel, Lacosta, or Gaspa-\\nrilla islands. For a camping place for the invalid who\\nrequires a bracing sea breeze, an equable temperature,\\nsalt bathing, and life-giving sunbeams, we would say\\ncamp on the northern end of Gasparilla island. The\\nisland is two miles in length, and is well stocked with\\ndeer. At the entrance, or Little Gasparilla Pass, the\\nfishing is unequalled. On the opposite flats beach birds\\nare more than plentiful. The main land is distant\\nabout three hundred yards. In the centre of the island\\na lagoon with excellent water will be found but by dig-\\nging a hole in the sand (and planting an empty barrel\\nin it) from twenty to eighty yards from the bay beach,\\nfair drinking water can be obtained at low tide. If a\\nparty landed at Punta Rassa, a small sloop or schooner\\ncould be chartered to transport boat, provisions, and\\ncamp equipage to camping ground. A few weeks spent\\non one of the islands in Charlotte Harbor would do\\nm.uch to restore the invalid. Frosts are unknown\\nuorth-easters and north-westers lose their injurious inilu-\\nences before reaching these favored spots. A weekly\\nmail is received at Punta Rassa, and supplies could be\\nobtained through Captain McKay, of the Valley City.\\nWe have advised parties to camp on the end of the\\nisland, for, by pursuing this course, bushes and grass\\nwould be distant some hundred yards, and in conse-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "COASTWISE ROUTES OF TKAYEL. 39\\nquence mosquitoes would not prove troublesome. To\\nintending visitors I would say, secure coast survey charts\\nof this harbor, two in number, obtainable at any large\\nnautical store.\\nEeturning northward, sportsmen could run the coast\\nline from Little Gasparilla Inlet to Sarasota Inlet, a\\ndistance of thirty-eight miles. But unless they are\\nfamiliar with sailing, and know how to pick their way\\nbetween bars, and keep clear of breakers, we would\\nadvise them to take themselves and boat on board the\\nValley City and land at Tampa. At Tampa they would\\nfind good accommodations by calling upon Lieutenant\\nWall. Leaving Tampa Bay, with its islands stocked\\nwith deer, and every inlet furnishing superior fishing,\\nthey would reach Clear Water Harbor by the Indian\\nPass. From Clear Water Harbor they could run along\\nwithin two or three miles of the main land in from three\\nto five feet of water. A barrier reef exists from five to\\nseven miles from the main land, and owing to the shal-\\nlowness of the water, and the grassy nature of the bot-\\ntom, the water is smooth. Bayous, coves, and small\\nbays will be found in numbers along the coast line, and\\na good harbor can always be made. The voyageurs\\ncould enter and examine en route the attractive and\\nbeautiful sjDrings at the heads of the Wiccawatchee,\\nCheseowillski, Homosassa, and Crystal rivers. During\\nthe winter months the gulf is usually as calm as a mill-\\npond, and can be safely navigated with a seventeen-foot\\nWhitehall boat but for the purpose of navigating shoal\\nwater and carrying jilunder, we would recommend a\\nbatteau, such as is used on the Delaware river. If\\ndecked over and supplied with a centre-board and sail,\\nsuch a craft would be found admirably adapted to the", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 COASTWISE ROUTES OF TRAVEL.\\nniivigatioii of the soutli-Avesfc. Arrangements could be\\nmade for the clieap transportation of such a boat from\\nNow York to Cedar Keys by tlie New York and Fer-\\nnandina line of steamers. But if money is no object, I\\nwould recommend intending sportsmen to secure a boat,\\nwitli sailing master, at Cedar Keys, Tampa, or Manatee,\\nat an ex})ense of from four to five dollars per day. But\\nI may remark that many of the boatmen along the coast\\nliave acquired a weakness, and if peace is desired the\\nwhiskey bottle must be kept under lock and key.\\nAl Fresco.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "GAME ANIMALS AND BIRDS OF FLOEIDA.\\nTHE foUowing quadrupeds and birds have been ob-\\nserved in Eastern Florida, but the presence of the\\nlatter is only noted in spring and winter at least we\\nhave received no account of the fact that they are\\nregular denizens. The quadrupeds embrace the Felis\\nconcolor, or panther, common in the unsettled part of\\nthe State the Lynx rufios, also abundant the Canis\\nLupus, or gray wolf (some nearly black), is rather\\nscarce the Vulpus Virgmianus, or gray fox, is abun-\\ndant, also the Frocyon Lotor, or raccoon, the Ursus\\nArctos, or common bear, and the Gariacus Virginiayius,\\nor Virginia deer; this is of a very small size. The\\nSciurus 7iiger, or Southern fox squirrel, is abundant,\\nbut is confined to pine woods also the Sciurus Caroli-\\nnensis, or gray squirrel, which is very tame. The\\nLepus sylvaticus, or gray rabbit the Lepus Falustris,\\nor marsh rabbit, and the Didelphys Virginiana, or\\nopossum, are quite common.\\nThe birds include the Meleagris Gallopavo, or wild\\nturkey, which is very numerous males often weigh\\ntwenty-five pounds females six to ten pounds the\\nOrtyx Virgmianus, or quail very abundant Squar-\\ntarola Helvetica, or black-billed plover the Charadrius\\nVirginicus, or golden plover the ^gialitis vociferus,", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 GAME ANIMALS AND BIRDS OF FLORIDA.\\nor killdcc plover the ^gialitis Wilsonius, or Wilson\\nplover, and the ui EijialUis melodiiis, or piping plover.\\nThe jilover were seen only in spring. The Philohela\\nwi)io)\\\\ or Avoodcock, is not common, bnt the Gallinago\\nWihoniy or snii)e, is. Tlie latter go in large flocks and\\ncover the whole country. The red-breasted snipe the\\nSxjmpliemia scmipalmata, or willet; the Gaiiibctta Fla-\\nvipes, or yellow legs the Gamhetta Melanolenca, or\\ngreater yellow legs Simosa Fedoa, or marbled god-\\nwits, are also common. The Kumenicus Hudsonicus,\\nor Hudsonian curlew, and the Numenieus Borealis, or\\nEsquimaux curlew, are rare, but the Numenieus longi-\\nrostris, or long-billed curlew the Himantopiis nigercollis\\nor black-necked stilt the rails and gallinules, and the\\nherons, cranes, and ibis, are abundant; the Annas\\nioschas, or mallard, is very abundant, also the Annas\\nobscura, or black duck the latter duck has a lighter\\ncolor its neck is more like a female mallard, and it is\\nsaid to breed in Florida. The Dafila acuta, or pintail\\nthe Nettion Carolinensis, or green wingtail the Quer-\\nquedula Discors, or blue wingtail the Spatula Cly-\\npcata or Shoveller the Marcea Americana, or bajd-\\npate the Aix Sjjonsa, or wood duck the Fidex Marila,\\nor scau]) duck the Aythya Americana, or red-head\\nthe Aythya Vallisneria, or canvas-back the Buce-\\npliala alheola, or butter-ball tlie Erismatura ruhida, or\\nruddy duck the SopJiodytes Cucullatus, or hooded\\nmerganser, and the Canada goose, are all abundant\\nthe latter especially in the north-western portion of\\nthe State.\\nThe following-named birds are found in the Lake\\nOkeechobee region\\n1. Wilson s thrush {Turdus fuscescens). Saw one", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "GAME ANIMALS AND BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 43\\nspecimen on Lookout Island the only island dry enough,\\nto aiford residence to birds of this family.\\n2. Cat-bird {Galeoscoptes Carolinensis). Upon the\\neastern shore, saw several in the elderberry thickets.\\n3. Blue-gray gnat-catcher [Polioptila coerulea).\\nAbundant in the boxwood and ash on the eastern shore.\\n4. Troglodytes aedon (common wren). Earely seen.\\n5. Yellow redpoll-warbler {Dendroeca 2^almarum).\\nThe most abundant species of the warblers here as\\nelsewhere.\\n6. Yellow-crowned warbler {Dendroeca coronata).\\nThis species seemed to delight in the maple swamps,\\nand where those trees were interspersed among the\\ncypress, these beautiful little birds were to be found\\ncomparatively abundant.\\n7. Maryland yellow throat {Geotlilypis triclias),\\nEarely seen in the marshy hammocks bordering the\\nshore.\\n8. White-bellied swallow {Tacliycineta Ucolor).\\nNumerous flocks of them were seen flying over the\\nmarshes near Kissimmee Bay and along the western shore.\\n9. The purple martin {Progne purpurea). Was\\nabundant in the pine woods near the Kissimmee ahove,\\nthough none were seen near the lake.\\n10. White-eyed vireo Vireo noveloracensis). Com-\\nmon in the cypress belt, wherever there was a thick\\nundergrowth. Its peculiar note was the one most fre-\\nquently heard.\\n11. Savannah sparroAV {Passerciilus savanna), Not\\nnumerous.\\n12. Cardinal bird {Cardinalis Virginianus). We\\nmissed the pleasing song of this bright songster as soon\\nas we left the live-oaks upon the Kissimmee, but after we", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 GAME ANIMALS AND BIRDS OF FLORIDA.\\nhad emerged from tlie desolate marshes and gained the\\nfirst maple island their notes fell upon our ears not\\nnumerous.\\n13. Chewink {Pipilo erifthrophthalmus). Upon\\nthe Kissimmee I saw them in abundance, and a few upon\\nthe dry sand of Lookout Island, scratching among the\\ndead leaves. I also detected the local variety, or species,\\ndiscovered by Mr. Maynard on the St. Johns, having\\nthe iris white instead of hazel.\\n14. Cow black-bird {Molothrus pecoris). Not so\\nnumerous as the red-wing.\\n15. Red-winged blackbird (Agelceus phceniceus).\\nVery abundant. Everywhere seen in the marshes, en-\\nlivening us with their presence and song.\\nIG. Meadow lark {Sturnella hidoviciana). The pine\\nwoods near the Kissimmee contained this species in\\nabundance, but none were observed near the lake, owing\\nto the swampy character of the shore.\\n17. Purple grakle (Quiscalus purpureus). Very\\nnumerous, this and the Florida species, Q. haritus.\\n18. Boat-tail grakle {Quiscalus major). Extremely\\nabundant, associating in flocks with the red-wings and\\npurple grakles.\\n19. Common crow (Corvus Americanus). Very few\\nseen.\\n20. Fish crow {Corvus ossef vagus). Abundant eve-\\nrywhere made sad havoc with the eggs in heron rook-\\neries wherever we landed.\\n21. Blue jay {Cyanurus oristahis). None seen few\\nheard on the east shore.\\n22. Pewee {Saijorms fuscus). Very few seen in the\\nlarger hammocks.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "GAME ANIMALS AKD BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 45\\n23. KmgG.sh.er (Cerylealcy on). Comparatively abun-\\ndant along the Kissimmee and all sides of the lake.\\n24. Chuck^\\\\i\\\\Ys^yidow {A ntrostomus Car oline7is is). A\\nfew heard at the deserted Indian village on the east shore.\\n25. Iyoyj hill wood])ecker [Picusprmcipalis). None\\nsatisfactorily identified, though I caught a glimpse of\\nseveral which I then thought to be this species.\\n26. Pileated woodpecker {Hylotomus pileatus).\\nAbundant its noisy, rattling note could be heard in\\nall the cypress belts.\\n27. Eed-bellied woodpecker {Centurus CaroUnas).\\nNumerous the most abundant of the picidce here, as\\nwell as all over Florida.\\n28. Golden-winged woodpecker, {Colaptes auratus),\\nNot numerous.\\n29. Paroquet {Conurus Carolinensis). Few flocks\\nseen. Along the upper portion of our route on the\\nKissimmee they were abundant. I think they breed in\\nthe cypress belt of the east shore.\\n30. Turkey vulture (Catliartes aura). Seen every-\\nwhere sailing high over the lake, or suddenly flapping\\nout of some thick cypress.\\n31. Black vulture (Cathartes atratus). Eare.\\n32. Caracara eagle {Polyhorus Brasilieiisis). Not\\nnumerous. Eegarding this species, and the sacred vul-\\nture of Bartram, I shall have some notes in a future\\nnumber.\\n33. Falco sparrerius, (sparrow-hawk). Abundant\\nalong the Kissimmee rare on the lake.\\n34. Buteo lineatus (red-shouldered hawk). Most\\nnumerous species, having young in nearly every large\\ncollection of trees.\\n35. Fish-hawk {Pandion lialietus). Everywhere", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "4G GAME ANIMALS AND BIRDS OF FLORIDA.\\nabundant in tlic lake. None of the white-lieaded eagle\\nwere seen in the whole trip, though the osprey had nests\\neverywlierc.\\n30. Barred owl {Symium nehulosiun). Numerous\\nyoung found a week old. Its hootings filled the air\\nevery night.\\n37. Great horned owl {Bubo Virginianus). Saw\\nnone, but heard several.\\n38. Wild turkey {Mcleagris gallojmvo). The shore\\nof the lake is not suited to the habits of the turkey,\\nthough we saw feathers at the old Indian camps, pro-\\nbably brought there from the hammocks above on the\\nKissimmee, where it is comparatively abundant.\\n39. Quail {Ortyx Virginianus). None seen on the\\nlake, though bevies met with above.\\n40. Killdee plover {yEgialitis vociferus). Abundant\\non the Kissimmee none seen on the lake.\\n41. Snipe {Gallinago Wilsoni). Abundant on Kis-\\nsimmee.\\n42. Yellow-legs [Gamhetta flavij^es). Very numer-\\nous on the Kissimmee.\\n43. Red-breasted snipe {Macrorha7nplms griscus).\\nAbundant at the ford on the Kissimmee.\\n44. Sand-liill crane {Gnis Canadensis). But one\\nseen on Okeechobee abundant on the prairie of the\\nKissimmee.\\n45. Clapper rail {Rallus crejntans). Many heard\\nnone seen.\\n46. Puri)le gallinule {Gallinida Martinica). Not\\nnumerous in the lily pads of the lake border.\\n47. Coot {Fidica Americana). Abundant.\\n48. Louisiana heron {Demigrctla ludoviciana). Not\\nvery abundant.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "GAME AN IMALS AND BIEDS OF PLOEIBA. 47\\n49. Snowy heron {Garzetta candidissima). Not\\nnumerous.\\n50. White heron {Herodias egretta). Very numer-\\nous. Along the river and in several places in the lake\\nI found them breeding in large numbers. The Qgg?^\\nwere laid about February loth and 20th no young then\\nhatched.\\n51. Great blue heron {Ardea herodias). Abundant\\nnot near so many as of white breeding.\\n52. Blue heron (Florida ccerulea). Not common.\\n53. Least bittern (Ardetta exilis). Earely seen.\\n54. Green heron {Butorides virescens). Very plen-\\ntiful, and breeding.\\n55. Night heron {Nycticorax griseus). Common.\\n56. White ibis {Ibis alba). Exceedingly numerous,\\nespecially along the river. They had not commenced\\nbreeding to all appearances.\\n57. Roseate spoonbill {PJatalea ajaja). Two pairs\\nfound breeding on an island in the lake several seen\\nthere. The Indians say they breed abundantly on Fish-\\neating Creek.\\n58. Crying bird {Aramus giganteiis). Very numer-\\nous along the Kissimmee and western lake shore. Eggs\\nhad been taken a month before our arrival, February\\n22d, according to a resident on the river.\\n59. Green-wing teal. Abundant along the Kis-\\nsimmee.\\n60. Wood duck {Aix sponsa). The most abundant,\\nin fact the only resident species I saw on the lake. They\\nwere apparently breeding, as they were occupying holes\\nin the dead cypress of the east shore.\\n61. Florida cormorant (Graculits Floridanus).\\nAbundant, and breeding on the shore bordering the Ever-", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 GAME ANIMALS AKD BIRDS OF FLORIDA.\\nglades. The custard apple trees there were filled with\\ntheir newly built nests.\\nG2. Snake bird {Plotus anJmiga). The most abun-\\ndant species, with the exception of the white heron, on\\nthe lake or river. It had both eggs and young as early\\nas February 23d everywhere abundant. No mammals\\nwere seen about the lake, and signs only of rabbit and\\nraccoon. Deer occurred on the Kissimmee prairie, but\\nin small numbers.\\nGame and fish are abundant in the vicinity of St.\\nAugustine during the winter. Besides English snipe,\\nthe brown-winged curlew, mallard ducks, blue and green-\\nwinged teal, there are the summer duck, spoonbill, wid-\\ngeon, shag-pole, sprig-tail, black-head, blue-head, Eng-\\nlish diver, canvas-back, and the raft duck, which is found\\nonly in salt water. These ducks infest the rivers in\\nthousands, and are considerably hunted. The sports-\\nmen do not exhibit a great amount of desire to fish,\\nalthough fish are plentiful and large. Not long since, a\\nnumber of boys, while casting their fishing lines from off\\nthe old fort battery here, hooked several large channel\\nbass, the largest one weighing as high as thirty-four\\npounds. Trout also are freely caught. Then there is\\nthe mullet, whiting, black-fish, sheepshead, and other\\nvarieties, all in season. The oysters which line the\\nriver banks are delicious, and are gathered with-\\nout any difficulty and to any amount. We recently\\ngathered a good mess just along the city sea wall, not fifty\\nyards from the streets. The deer, wild turkey, and bear,\\nare successfully hunted in close proximity to St. Augus-\\ntine. The hotels are kept in bountiful supply with ven-\\nison and wild turkey, killed by our old hunters. One\\nof them, and undoubtedly the most experienced in the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "GAME AIS IMALS AKD BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 49\\nneighborhood, is John Canova. He tells us the game is\\nhandy, especially the deer. The bear is hunted but\\nlittle, as few or no good bear dogs are to be brought into\\nrequisition. When they are available the bear is then\\nmolested, and very often old bruin succumbs. Mr. Can-\\nova, while in the woods alone one day the past summer,\\nencountered a monster black bear. His ^^old reliable\\ndouble-barrel gun was convenient, and Mr. Bear quietly\\nexpired. Its weight was 400 pounds. Sportsmen hunt\\nconsiderably some few miles south of here, on the Hali-\\nfax river, as they like the idea of spending a few weeks\\nof camp life. They general go by way of the Matanzas\\nriver, running south about twenty-five miles thence\\nthey are hauled boat and all over a strip of land nine\\nmiles in width to the Halifax river.\\n3", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "VI.\\nGAME FISH OF FLORIDA.\\nI HAD always supposed that the fishes of the northern\\ncoasts were of better quality than those of southern\\nwaters, but an experience of three winters on the east\\ncoast of Florida has convinced me of my error. In a\\nday s fishing at Mosquito Inlet, on the Indian river, we\\noften took six or eight species of edible fish, all of which\\nwere quite equal to those of the Xorth. They are also\\nvery abundant, and not being much pursued are easily\\ncaught. This is particularly the case in the Indiaa\\nriver, where the angler might say\\nTliey are so unacquainted with man.\\nTheir lameness is sliocliing to me,\\nThe Indian river country is mostly wilderness, and\\ncan only be fished and hunted by camping out, wliich,\\nhowever, in a Florida winter, is delightful, the weatlier\\nbeing much like the finest October days in the Northern\\nStates. At New Smyrna, near the Mosquito Inlet,\\ntliere is also good fishing, and there is an excellent\\nhotel, kept by K. Dowd (the Ocean House), mostly\\nfrequented by anglers and hunters from the Xoith.\\nHere you are near the fishing grounds, and behind the\\nhousO stretches awiy to the south an immense forest\\nand swamp, containing bears, panthers, deer, wild", "height": "3524", "width": "2086", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "GAME FISH OF FLORIDA. 51\\ncattle, turkeys, quails, squirrels, and all kinds of ducks\\nand water fowl. The house is clean, the table very\\ngood, the host and hostess obliging and friendly, and\\nthe charges moderate about $14 per week. The route\\nis as follows From Savannah, by rail, to Jacksonville,\\nten or twelve hours fare, 18. From Jacksonville to\\nEnterprise, on the St. John, per steamer in two days\\ntwo hundred miles fare, $9. At Enterprise you hire a\\nwagon to take you through the pine woods thirty or\\nforty miles to New Smyrna time, twelve hours per-\\nhaps more if the swamps are full of water fare, $7.\\nYou can employ a day or two at Enterprise (Brock\\nHouse), in fishing for black bass (here called trout) in\\nLake Munroe, or in hunting deer or wild turkeys in the\\nwoods. The expenses of a trip to Florida will be from\\n$100 to $150 per month, according to the habits of the\\ntraveller.\\nDuring parts of three winters spent in this region I\\nmade some notes of the food and game fishes, from\\nwhich I have prepared the following sketches\\nSheepshead [Sargus ovis). Dekay. This is one\\nof the most abundant sjoecies, as well as one of the\\nmost valuable as food. Though much more numer-\\nous than on the coasts of the Middle States, they are\\nof smaller size, averaging, at Mosquito Inlet and in the\\nIndian river, about three pounds. A six-pound fish is\\nlarge, and a seven-pound one is rare. The baits gener-\\nally used are clams (better boiled, being touglier), crabs,\\nfiddlers, and conchs. The latter bait is very tough,\\nwell resists the strong teeth of the sheepshead, but is, I\\nthink, less attractive than the others. We find the best\\nfishing usually in the channels which run along the\\nbanks, upon which is a thick grove of mangrove bushes", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 GAME FISn OF FLORIDA.\\nthe roots of tlicsc arc in the water, and are coTered\\nwith barnacles, wliich attract the sheepshead. From\\nlialf ilood to hif^^li water they nsnally bite most eagerly,\\ntliougli liero, as elsewliere, there sometimes comes a day\\non wliicli ilsli do not feed alfected, probably, by the\\nwind or weatlier.\\nI am disjiosed to believe, w^ith Norris, that the\\nsheepshead found on the northern coast are the surplus\\nproduction of more southern waters. In April, the\\nslieepshead on the coast of Florida become heavy with\\ns] awn, and lose their fine flavor. I think they spawn\\nin May. We often t;ike them quite small, only a few\\nounces in weight. Most fishermen use a hand line,\\nwitli two hooks resting on the bottom, but anglers find\\nmore sport in the use of rod and reel. A four-pound\\nsheepshead will make a strong fight, and a pair of them\\nwill try the angler s skill to save both. Owing to the\\nhard pavement of enamelled teeth in the mouth, it is\\ndifficult to hook this fish, and when hooked his jaws are\\nso strong that few hooks can resist their power. After\\ntrying many kinds I have found but two that I could\\ndepend upon. One is the hook used at Newport for\\ntautog, and the other is figured in Norris book under\\nthe name of the Virginia hook. It is the best of the\\ntwo, having a sharp cutting edge to the barb, which\\ngives a better penetration. Sinkers of different weights\\nare required to suit the force of the tide at different\\ntimes, the sheepshead being a bottom fish. Two, four,\\nand six ounces will be found suflieient. We usually\\naveraged a dozen fish to a line in one tide, even when\\nhalf a dozen persons were fishing from the boat, most of\\nwliom were unskilled. I have taken twenty-five sheeps-\\nhead ill a tide to my own rod, and I have known two", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "GAME JFISH OF FLORIDA. 53\\nanglers to kill a hundred in a day. We used generally\\nto fill a two-busliel bag, hanging over the boat s side in\\nthe water, so as to bring the fish home alive, and then\\nput them in a car anchored in the creek in front of\\nthe hotel.\\nRed-fish, or Chais^kel Bass {Corvina ocellata). Cu-\\nVIER. This is a v.ery common and numerous species on\\nthe Florida coasts, and is a fish much resembling in habits\\nits congener, the striped bass of more northern waters.\\nIt is taken with similar baits, such as shrimp, crab, or a\\npiece of mullet it fights long and hard on the hook,\\nand in the proper season is an excellent table fish, boiled,\\ncut in steaks, and broiled, or even fried. I consider it,\\nafter the month of March, to be equal to the striped\\nbass. In the fall and winter the red-fish is lean and\\nwithout flavor, but improves in March, and in January\\nit is the best of the coast fishes, as well as the most\\nabundant. At that, season it swarms in the river mouths\\nand sounds, and can be taken with almost any bait. It\\nis also found of large size in the surf on the sea-beaches,\\nand can be readily taken by casting a baited hook with\\na hand line from the shore.\\nXorris represents the red-fish as stringy, and lack-\\ning flavor, while Herbert calls it excellent. Both are\\nright, since its quality varies with the season. Mr.\\nNorris, quoting Holbrook, describes the red- fish as of a\\nbeautiful silvery color, and iridescent when taken from\\nthe water, adding that in the Gulf they are invariably\\nred. I have found that specimens under seven or eight\\npounds weight have the back of a steel-blue, sides golden,\\nand belly white the larger fish are of a brilliant golden\\nred on back and sides. All have the black spot near the\\ntail, from which the specific name is derived. Some-", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 GAME FISH OF FLORIDA.\\ntimes there are two or more spots. Tlie cut in Xorris\\nbook gives a correct figure of tlie red-fish, or clianiiel\\nbass. It comes into tlie rivers with the tide, and is best\\ntaken in the channel near the shore at half flood. As\\nin sheepshead fishing, most })ersons use the hand line,\\nwith the bait on the bottom, but I have found better\\nsport with a brass rod and reel to hold sixty or seventy\\nyards of line, using a float to keep my bait within three\\nfeet of the bottom. The same hook as for striped bass\\nthis fish has a tough, but not very bony mouth, and is\\neasily hooked and held. In March and April we get\\nthem in the rivers and inlets of from five to ten pounds\\nweight later in the season of larger size, say from fif-\\nteen to thirty pounds. My largest was taken by trolling\\nwith a hand line from a boat in the Indian river, and\\nweiglied twenty-five pounds. I have known a dozen to be\\ntaken by one rod in the spring, averaging eight pounds,\\nbut in summer a wagon load could be hauled out of the\\nsurf with a hand line almost anywhere along the coast\\nfrom Mosquito Inlet to the Indian river.\\nSalt-water Trout {OtoUtus CaroUnensis). Cu-\\nviER. This belongs to the same genus as the weak-fish,\\nor squeteague of the Middle States {0. regalis), differing\\nchiefly in this, that the southern species has rows of\\nblack spots ovC the back, like the lake trout of the\\nAdirondacks, which it much resembles in figure. It is,\\nliowever, not a salmon, but rather allied to the perches\\nof the order Ctenoid^ of Agassiz. Our southern species\\nis not much esteemed as food, becoming soft and flavor-\\nless soon after capture. It is a game fish, and affords\\ngood sport to the rod fisher a very handsome and\\nlively fish, from two to twi pounds in weight, and is\\ntaken usually with mullet bait. It is of very rapacious", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "GAME FISH OF FLORIDA. 55\\nhabits, and on a still night in spring and summer the\\nsnapping of their jaws may be distinctly heard as they\\nciiase the mullets and small fry in the creeks. Hol-\\nbrook gives a good figiire of this species.\\nThe Drum {Pogonias cromis). Cuvier. (P. fas-\\nciafns). Holbrook. There seem to be two species on\\nthe southern coast. Pogonias cromis is the black drum,\\nthe larger and coarser, sometimes weighing fifty or sixty\\npounds. P. fasciatus, the striped drum, of ten or twelve\\npounds, is the better fish. They appear at Mosquito\\nInlet about April, and spawn, I think at that season.\\nThe roe of the drum, salted, is a favorite dish on the\\ncoast, and was formerly exported in large quantities to\\nCuba. In Charleston, Savannah, and St. Augustine the\\ndrum is the common dinner fish when in season, though\\nI think it much inferior to the sheepshead or the red-fish.\\nIt is taken in the same way as its cousin, the sheepshead,\\nand with the same bait, and behaves in the same way\\nw^hen hooked, though from its greater size and strength\\nits capture is more difficult. This fish derives its name\\nfrom its habit of emitting a hollow^ drumming noise,\\nprincipally, I think, in the spawning season. This\\nsound, like the drumming of the partridge, is difficult\\nto trace, as it appears to diffuse itself in space.\\nThe Whitixg, Barb, or Ki:s^gfish Umhrina neb-\\nulosa). Storer. The whiting is considered one of\\ntlie best of the southern fishes, and is prized higher by\\nthe natives than even the sheepshead perhaps because\\nit is a scarcer fish. We seldom get more tlian six or\\neight of them in a tide. The flesh is both rich and deli-\\ncate, and the average weight about a pound but its re-\\nsistance is greater than would be expected from the size\\nof the fish. They are taken in rather deep water on the", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "60 GAMK FISH OF FLUKIDA.\\nbottom, witli either clam, crab, or mullet bait. The\\ntig lire in N orris book is accurate.\\nRed Snapper, or Grouper {Serrcuias cnjtUogaster).\\nCuviER. This tish seems to be called by both names in\\nditrerent localities. In East Florida it goes by the name\\nof snapper, and is known by the large canine teeth\\nand by its rapacious habits when put with other fish alive\\nin a car it proceeds to devour those smaller than itself.\\nIt has large scales, with spines in tlie dorsal fin, and has\\nbeen placed by Cuvier among the perches. At Mos-\\nquito Inlet they are small from one to tliree pounds,\\nbut in the Indian River Inlet I have taken them of ten\\nor twelve pounds weight, and I have seen them brought\\nin from the Gulf of double that size. The snapper\\nseems to be a wary fish, and requires finer tackle and\\nmore careful fishing than most of the coast species. I\\nhave found that a rather small liooJc, fine line, with mul-\\nlet bait cast from a reel, using a float so as to let the\\nline run off down the current thirty or forty yards from\\nthe boat, was the most successful way to delude the\\nsnapper. It bites sharply, fights hard, and is good eat-\\ning, either boiled or fried. Color, reddish brown on\\nthe back and sides, growing darker after death belly\\nsilvery. Holbrook, in his figure of this fish, gives it\\nrows of black spots on the back.\\nBlack Grouper {Serranus nigritus). IIolbrook.\\nCommonly known on the Florida coast as the\\ngrouper it is a perch also, and is of the very best\\nquality on the table, being rich and well flavored a\\nbetter fish than the preceding, in my opinion. It is\\nshaped something like the black bass of fresh water, the\\ncolor an olive brown, with dark mottled lines, resem-\\nbling tortoise shell. At Mosquito Inlet it is taken from", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "GAME FISH OF FLORIDA. 57\\ntwo to eight pounds in weight, with mullet bait, on the\\nbottom. The grouper has a stronghold under the man-\\ngrove bushes, or in a hole in the bank, to which it re-\\ntreats when hooked, and being a vigorous fish often suc-\\nceeds in reaching its fortress, from which it can with\\ndifficulty be dislodged, and the loss of fish and tackle is\\nthe result. More hooks are lost by the grouper than by\\nany other fish, but as it affords good. sport and excellent\\nfood, it is a favorite object of the angler s pursuit. A\\nbass rod and reel, with a strong line and Virginia hook,\\nwith lead enough to keep the bait on the bottom, is the\\nbest rig for the grouper, and, after all, the prospect of\\ngetting him is uncertain. He fights so hard that you\\nhave to give him line, and if you give him too much he\\nis sure to escape into his hold.\\nCoBiA, Crab-eater, or Sargea:n:t Fish {Elacate\\nAtlanticus), Cuvier. This fish I have never seen, ex-\\ncept in the Indian river, where it is a common species,\\nlying under the mangrove bushes in wait for prey like a\\npike, which it much resembles in form, and in the long\\nunder- jaw, full of sharp teeth. It derives its trivial\\nname from a black stripe running along its silvery sides\\nfrom head to tail, like that on the trowsers of a sergeant.\\nI found it rather coarse and indifferent food, in that\\nalso resembling the fresh- water pike. Size from two to\\nthree feet long.\\nThe Pompais O (Bothrokemiis pampanus). Hol-\\nBROOK. Most persons who have been in Mobile or N ew\\nOrleans have heard of the pompano. Perhaps few have\\nseen or tasted it, though it has the reputation of being\\nthe finest fish in the world, and brings in the southern\\nmarkets three or four times the price of any other fish.\\nIt is a rare fish, which may in part account for its higli\\n3*", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 GAME FISH OF FLORIDA.\\nroi)utation, tlioui^li liaviiig Jnn] tlie good fortune to\\ncaUh and oat a ponipano in Florida I am prepared to\\nailniit its claims for merit of tlie highest order. Hol-\\nbrook is the only writer who, to my knowledge, gives a\\nscientific descri})tion of this fish, and he apparently con-\\nfounds it with the cavalli or crevalle, which much\\nresembles it in a})pcarance. In his Fishes of South\\nCarolina, he heads his description The Pompano,\\nBothrolceimis pamjmmis. Synonyms Lichia Carolina,\\n(Dekay and Storer;) Tracliinotus pampamis (Cuvier\\nand Yal) vulgo, cavalli or crevalle known in New\\nOrleans as pompynose. Page 11.\\nThe fish known on the coast of Florida as the cavalli\\nor crevalle, I take to be Caraux defensor (Dekay), which\\nbelongs to the same family as B. pamjmnns, but is of\\ndifferent habits and merit, and has important structural\\ndistinctions.\\nThe pompano has a truncated snout, rather a small\\nmouth without teeth, jaws strong and massive, eye of\\nmoderate size, body much compressed and deep, about\\none-third the length first dorsal fin represented by six\\nspines; second dorsal soft and extending to the tail;\\nanal fin extending to the tail also. The pompano is a\\nbottom fish, and is found singly. My specimen was\\ntaken in the Ilillsboro river, near New Smyrna, with\\nclam bait, while fishing on the bottom for sheepshead.\\nIt weighed only two and a half pounds, but made so\\nfurious a resistance that I thought I had a large sheeps-\\nhead hooked foul. It ran in circles, darted under the\\nl)oat, fouled (mr lines, and made fuss enough for a fish\\nof tliree times it size. As soon as our boatman saAV it ho\\nsliouted, A pomi)ano and the first I ever saw caught\\nwith a hook in this river This man had fished on the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "GAME FISH OF FLORIDA. 59\\ncoast all his life, and knew every fish in the waters.\\nHe liad been with us when Ave caught the cavalli ia\\nthe Indian river, and named both species at once. My\\nspecimen was a splendid creature. His colors were as\\nbrilliant as those of a fresh-water salmon, but instead of\\nbiiglit silver lie was like a bar of frosted silver. This\\nclianged after death, to dark blue above and lemon-yel-\\nlow beneath. We had him cut in slices and fried, and\\neven under that treatment, which I suspect was not the\\nmost appropriate, he was superb. A combination of\\nrichness and delicacy of flavor quite unique like a\\nKew Brunswick salmon and Lake Superior whitefish,\\nwhich, of all the fishes on this Continent, I hold to\\nbe the best.\\nThis specimen measured eighteen inches long and\\nsix in depth.\\nThe Cayalli, or Cretalle {Caraux defensor),\\nDekay. Belongs to the same family as the last, and\\nmuch resembles it in appearance. The cavalli has a\\nmore pointed head and snout, with moderately large\\nconical and pointed teeth. The mouth is larger than\\nill the pompano, the body not as deep in proportion to the\\nlength, the eye is larger, has two dorsal fins, and at the\\njunction of the tail with the body it is smaller than the\\npompano. In color it is olive green, and silvery above and\\nyellow beneath. I found it quite numerous at the Indian\\nRiver Inlet. It goes in schools, swims near the surface,\\nand takes readily a trawl, either bait or red rag. It is an\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0active, sporting fish, but of indifferent quality on the\\ntable, being dry and tasteless, like the dolj: hin of\\ntropical seas. Those I caught were of about two\\npounds weight, but I am told that it grows to five times\\nthat size.", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "OU GAME FISH OF FLORIDA.\\nIt would appear that these two species, from their\\nstrong resembhmce to each other, are often confounded,\\nand I think it very probable that si)ecimens of the pom-\\n])ano rei orted to have been taken this year in Buzzard s\\nBay were in reality cavalli, this being a more roving as\\nwell as a more numerous species than the pompano.\\nliLACKFiSH, OR Sea Bass {Ceutrojnstes nigrica7is).\\nCuviER. This seems to be tlie same s])ecies which is\\nknown in New York as the sea bass, and at Newport as the\\nblackfish. Like the sheepshead, those in northern waters\\nare much larger than we find them in Florida waters, so\\nthat I am inclined to believe that they breed here and\\ngo North in the summer. At Mosquito Inlet, they are\\nvery abundant, and being voracious feeders can be taken\\nalmost at will, and with any bait. Usually under a\\npound, while off the reefs at Newport I had taken them\\nof six or seven.\\nSailor s Choice, or Hogfish {Hemidon falvoma-\\nculatus). Dekay Croker (Micropogon undulatus).\\nCuviER Black Grunt {Hemulon arcuahim). HoL-;\\nbrook; Skip Jack, young of Bluefish {Temnodoii\\nsalt at or). Linn. The above are small pan fish, which\\ncan be taken in vast numbers in the bays and creeks,\\nbut the larger species being numerous few persons\\nseek for these, though they are all nice eating. The\\nfullgrown bluefii^h are numerous on some parts of\\nthe coast at certain seasons, as I am informed, as\\nare also the S])anish mackerel, but I have never met\\nwith them.\\nMullet {Magil lineaius). Dekay. I think there\\nare several species of the mullet here. Tliey are found\\neverywhere in the bays and sounds in immense shoals,\\nand arc taken in seines and cast nets in size from lutlf a", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "GAME FISH OF FLORIDA. 61\\npound to six pounds. It is a very valuable fish to the\\ninhabitants, since it takes salt better than any other\\nsouthern species, being equal to the mackerel in that\\nrespect. It also furnishes a valuable food in its spaAvn,\\nwhich is salted and smoked. It is also used extensively\\nas bait for most other fishes. The mullet appears to\\nsubsist upon the minute animals found in the mud,\\nwith which substance its stomach and intestines are\\nusually found to be filled. Eaten fresh, the mullet\\naffords a rich and savory food.\\nSalt-water Catfish {GaleicJithys mariniis). Cu-\\nviER. Much resembles the fresh-water catfish, but is\\na handsomer fish, both in form and color. It has the\\nbarbels dependent from the mouth, and strong spines in\\nthe pectoral and dorsal fins, capable of inflicting painful\\nwounds upon careless hands. As to its value as an\\nedible species, I cannot say they are numerous, and\\ngreedy biters, but are generally thrown away, or left for\\nthe coons and buzzards. Size in the Indian river, ten\\nor twelve pounds.\\nSharks ajs^d their Coxgexers. Sharks are very\\nnumerous in these waters, from six to nine feet long\\nprobably the mackerel shark, Lamna punctata Storer.\\nThere is a species here called the nurse shark, Somni-\\nosus hoeirpin7ia, De S., which is sometimes taken with a\\nhook it is about five or six feet long, and its teeth are\\nvery small.\\nOther members of this family are the garfish, angel\\nfish, rays, skates, etc. The garfish, Pristis antiquorum\\n(Dekay), is shark-like in form, with a cruel weai)on pro-\\njecting from its snout one-third the length of its body.\\nThis is studded with sharp spines on either side, iind is\\nused to kill other fishes. The sawfish has a largo", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "6% GAME FISH OF FLORIDA.\\nnioutli, l)ut no teeth in it, so ho shishcs his saw among a\\nsc liool of nmllets, killing half a dozen at a ])lo\\\\v, which\\nlie then gohbles np at his leisure. He is dreaded by\\nlishennen, who disable him by a blow on the saw.\\nThe angel-fish is a very bad angel indeed, judging\\nfrom his a])pearance, which is between a shark and a\\nray a hideous combination.\\nThe rays or skates belong also to this class, and tliey\\nare of large size and numerous on this coast, particularly\\nthe sting ray, Trygon hastata (Storer), which is a terror\\nto fishermen. In wading to cast their nets they are in\\ndanger of treading on this creature, which lurks in the\\nmud or on the sandy bottom, and when touched strikes\\nwith his terrible barbed weapon, making ragged wounds\\nso difficult to heal that they are popularly supposed to\\nbe poisoned. These rays are often six feet long, includ-\\ning the tail, and three feet across. They appear to live\\nupon the small mollusks so numerous in these waters.\\nI have seen a ray, when hauled ashore, disgorge a pint\\nor more of these small bivalves.\\nThe torpedo ray, or crawfish, is also found on this\\ncoast, which animal carries with him an electrical\\nbattery of 250,000 plates as described by naturalists,\\ncapable of giving a very severe shock to the incautious\\nfisherman.\\nCephaloptcra vampirus. Mitchell. :The great ray,\\nvampire of the ocean, or devil-fisli, is found also in these\\nwaters, although it seldom enters the rivers. This is\\noften fifteen feet in length, and the same in breadth,\\nand is strong enough to drag off a small vessel, when it\\nl)ecomes entangled with the cable, as sometimes hap-\\n];ens. In Charleston harbor they are pursued in whale-\\nboats, and captured with harpoons, affording great", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "GAME FISH OF FLORIDA. 63\\nsport. In Victor Hugo s romance, the name clevil-Hsli,\\nwhich belongs to this ra3\\\\ is wrongly bestowed upon the\\noctopus, or cuttle-tish. This great ray, when propelling\\nitself through the water with its immense pectoral tins,\\nwhich look like the wings of a bat, is a wonderful sight.\\nOn its head are two horns, which, with its long tail,\\ncomplete the resemblance to his satanic majesty. This\\nis a fish, and the cuttle is not.\\nI hear often from the natives of two large and valua-\\nble fiskes of these waters, which, from their great size\\nand activity, are seldom caught the jew-fish and the\\ntarpum. The jew-fish seems to be a near relative of the\\ngrouper, and to belong, like it, to theperch family. It is a\\nshort, thick-set fish, with large fins, and h: oks like a giant\\nblack bass or a tautog color, olive brown scales small,\\nhead large, with well developed mouth and numerous\\nsmall teeth. The first dorsal fin has eleven spines\\nsecond dorsal, soft anal fin long, like the esocidae.\\nWhen hooked it runs for a hole, like a grouper. Speci-\\nmens have been taken in these waters on a shark line,\\nwhich weighed two or three hundred pounds, so that I\\nthink it must be the larger of the percoids. The flesh\\nis rich and well flavored, and as I have only seen this\\none specimen in four winters fishing here, I think it\\nmust be a rare fish.\\nThe tarpum I have not seen. It also is rare, and is\\ndescribed to belong to the mackerel family, growing to\\nthe weight of 80 to 100 lbs. A surface fish, very active\\nand strong, with brilliant silvery scales the size of a\\ndollar. It is rarely taken with hook and line, as it\\ngenerally carries away the tackle, however strong. It\\ngoes in schools, and leaps from the water when struck,\\neither with hook or spear. The only successful way of", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "04 GAMK l-lSll UF J-1.()K11)A.\\nkilling the tarpum, I am told, is to strike it with a har-\\npoon, to wliich is attached hy a strong line a small\\ncmj)ty cask the lish, by struggling with this buoy,\\nexhausts itself so that it may be a})})roaclied in a boat\\nand killed with a lance. I lately hooked a mysterious\\nfish or fishes (for the same thing happened to me three\\ntimes within an hour) which ran out 50 or 60 yards of\\nline with a single dash, and then breached on the sur-\\nface, taking away my hooks. It was so strong and swift\\nthat in trying to check it a thumbstall of thick bnckskin\\nwas cut through by the line as if by a knife, and my\\nthumb burned by the friction. This was either a shovel-\\nnosed shark, which runs off in this way, not turning\\nlike a common shark, or a tarpum, and as a school of\\nthese fishes has been often seen near the spot where I\\nhooked my fish, I am inclined to think it was this species\\nAvliich I then encountered. The rush was more like\\nthat of a fresh run salmon than of any other fish I\\nknow, except that this one did not leap out of the water\\nlike the salmon.\\nNot havi*ng access to any works on icthyology, I am\\nunable to give the scientific names of these fishes.\\nTliey are mentioned under the above names by Captain\\nRomans, who wrote a Concise Natural History of\\nFlorida, al)out 1773. New York anglers, wlio kill 30\\nor 40 lbs. striped bass with the rod, would find in the\\njew-fish and tarpum foemen worthy of their steel.\\nThe variety of species which one meets with in these\\nwaters in a few days fishing, while it adds much to the\\nvariety and interest of the sport, causes a great loss of\\nhooks and lines.\\nPerliaps you rig with small hooks for pigfisli or whit-\\ning, and a red-fish of twenty pounds takes away your", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "GAME FISH OF FLORIDA. 65\\nnooks or you are fishing with larger tackle for redfish\\nand a giant ray takes your hooks to the bottom and stays\\nthere, or a furious shark of 200 lbs. cuts off your line at\\nthe first turn he makes. I succeeded in capturing a\\nnurse shark five or six feet long, with rod and reel.\\nThis is a shark of rather sluggish habits (whence its\\nname, Somniosus hrevipenna), with teeth too small to\\nallow it to cut off the line. After 15 or 20 minutes play\\nit was gaffed by our boatman.\\nThe Feesh- water Fishes of Florida. Of these\\nI have less knowledge than of the sea fishes. The\\nspecies most widely diffused, and also the most valued,\\nis the black trout, or bass {Grystes salmoides). This\\nspecies is also found in the western lakes and rivers, but\\nin Florida it grows to a larger size specimens of eight,\\nten, and twelve pounds being sometimes taken. The\\nnative method is with a bob, which is a bunch of gay-\\ncolored feathers, with two or three large hooks concealed\\nin it. This is fastened to a yard or two of strong line,\\nand this to a stout reed pole. The fisherman sits in the\\nbow of a canoe, which is paddled by one in the stern,\\nand kept at such a distance from the weedy shore that\\nthe bob may be skittered along the margin. Out rushes\\nthe bass, and cannot well escape being hooked he is\\neither hauled in by main force, or breaks away. TsTorth-\\nern fishermen use the spoon, or sometimes cast with a\\nlong line and gaudy flies. Once on the Upper St. Johns,\\nnear the Everglades, two of us took, with spoons, trawling\\nfrom the stern of a steamer, twenty or thirty black bass\\nin an hour or two they were from two to six pounds\\nweight. Parties who go out from Enterprise upon Lake\\nMunroe in small boats often bring in great strings of\\nbass.", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 GAME FISH OF FLORIDA.\\nIn the lakes and rivers are also found the 3TII0W\\nperch, P. flavescens (Cuvicr) sunfish, Poniotis vulgaris\\n(Olivier) blue bream, FcJifheh s iNcisor (Val.) red-\\nbellied perch, Icldhetis rtihiranda (Storer) goggle-eyed\\nperch, Fomoxis rhomboidcs (Linn).\\nS. C. Clarke.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "VII.\\nTHREE MONTHS IN FLORIDA FOR A HUN-\\nDRED DOLLARS.\\nIT is a pity that people other than rich, should be\\nafflicted with sickness or devices that spring from a\\ncraving for a change of climate. So wide a difference\\nexists between the climatic conditions of the Northern\\nStates and those of the southernmost, that it is quite prac-\\nticable for one possessed of means to remedy any defect\\nin his constitution, pulmonarily, if this expression be\\nallowable, merely by a change of residence. It is so well\\nknown that it needs no further showing, that consump-\\ntion, that scourge of the North, can be cured (if not\\nradically, at least its fatal consequences postponed), if\\nthe patient is taken in hand in the early stages of\\nthe disease, and treated to a dose of the bland and\\nhealth-renewing climate of Florida. It is so well known\\nthat thousands seek, and gain, relief by a temporary\\nresidence in that land of the Fountain of Youth.\\nPernaps that term, the Land of the Fountain of\\nYouth has not already been used several thousand\\ntimes but no matter, it is very telling, when one would\\nattract the attention by the use of sonorous phrases.\\nBut Florida-deserves all such flattering titles as the above,\\nand that of the Land of Flowers, no matter how much\\nber defamers may say to the contrary. There are thou-", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "Gb TlillEE MONTHS IX ILOIUDA\\nsands more who would l^e but too glad to avail themselves\\nof tlie advantages accruing from the winter s stay there,\\ncould they but alford it. Consumption is so insidious\\nin its approach that its victim is lulled by a fatal sense\\nof security to postpone tlie day of departure until too\\nlate, and he departs only for the shadowy land. Any\\nwell-informed physician can prognosticate the result at a\\nsufliciently early stage of the disease to warn the patient,\\nand then then only, is the time to profit by the knowl-\\nedge, and leave a place of death for a country of health.\\nTo those who are suifering, who are hesitating, dread-\\ning the annoyance and expense incident to a voyage to\\nFlorida feeling that they would rather face the certain\\ndangers of another winter at the North, I address myself.\\nTo another class of citizens the information to be given\\nhere will not come amiss to those who, though in good\\nhealth and strength, have unsatisfied longings for the\\ngame region of the South. It cannot be denied that many\\nsportsmen suffer from a plentiful lack of money, and any\\nsuggestion tending to furnish a moderate supply of game\\nat slight expenditure will be acceptable. To them, then,\\nas well as to the invalid, the following notes may be of\\nservice though in fact, as may be expected, the invalid\\nwill drop his role of sick man and assume that of sports-\\nman, at an early period of his stay in a land whose cli-\\nmate is so gloriously rejuvenating as that of Florida.\\nTo fulfil the expectations aroused by my announce-\\nment at the head of this paper to treat one to a three-\\nmonths trip to Florida for a hundred dollars, I must\\nassume that the tourist be tolerably strong, and able to en-\\ndure a sea voyage in a sailing vessel. Fifteen dollars will\\ncover the cost of a cabin passage from New York to\\nJacksonville, in Florida. Fifteen dollars and two weeks", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "FOR A hu:n dred dollars. 69\\ntime. Perhaps three weeks may not consume but eight\\ndays but two weeks is a fair average. Assume, then, that\\n$15 is expended for passage down, twice fifteen (coming\\nback) makes thirty dollars, leaving a balance of seventy\\ndollars for other expenses for two months, one month\\nsupposed to have been passed on the briny deep. Re-\\ngarding the joys and delights of an ocean voyage in\\n%vinter, I remain silent that is a matter of taste, and\\nindividual taste does not come within, the scope of this\\narticle. There are people who revel in the beauties of\\nan ocean storm who climb out upon the bowsprit as\\nthe vessel rises and falls, to get the full benefit of the\\nplunge. To such, a trip to Florida in a schooner would\\nbe unalloyed bliss, provided cabin accommodations were\\ngood, and grub well-cooked and varied. Again,\\nthere are those to whom* the dreary monotony of sailing\\non and on is horrible, and to whom a storm but represents\\nso much racking of bones, and so many dinners lost for-\\never. These seek consolation within themselves, and\\ndraw upon their reserve fund of vitality fearfully.\\nOther routes are at the disposal of one not confined\\nto a limited amount of cash, and for thirty-five dollars\\nhe can reach Florida by one of the many steamers that\\nply between New York and the South. These steamers\\nrun to Charleston and Savannah, and connect with\\nother steamers that enter Florida. The accommodations\\nare very good upon the majority of them, and the time\\nconsumed in the entire trip generally less than five days.\\nAll-rail routes there are, for those who dread the ocean,\\nwhich make the distance in about a day less, and at a\\ncost of about forty-five dollars. The most preferable\\nroute, in my opinion, is by steamer to Savannah, and\\nthence by the new road direct to Jacksonville. Pro-", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 THREE MONTHS IN FLORIDA.\\nvidcd time is not an object, the inside route, among\\nthe sea-ishmds of Georgia, is very pleasant.\\nThere are but three ports directly accessible by sail-\\ning vessel upon the east coast of Florida. Commencing\\nwith the northernmost, these are, Fernandina, Jackson-\\nville, and Kcw Smyrna. The two first named have a\\nlarge lumber trade with the North, and frequent oppor-\\ntunities are offered for passage and freight upon the\\nvessels engaged in the business. They go down liglit, in\\nballast, and are but too glad to receive any quantity of\\nfreight. This is why Jacksonville can furnish provisions,\\nand nearly everything else, at New York prices.\\nFernandina has many inducements to offer in the\\nmatter of out-door life. It has a magnificent ocean\\nbeach, pure air and delightful bays, harbors, creeks and\\nrivers to sail and fish, close at home. In many things\\nit out-ranks its lower neighbors, but in the way of game\\nit cannot approach some places on the lower coast\\nand St. Johns. It has direct rail communication witii\\nthe west coast at Cedar Keys, fare about $7, and steam-\\nboat communication with Savannah and Charleston\\nboth the inside and outside lines. The town itself\\nis orderly, pleasant, and well supplied with markets\\nand stores.\\nAs a place from which one may reach the most\\nattractive portions of the State, Jacksonville should be\\nsele?ted. Situated upon the St. Johns, it has steam\\ncommunication with every settlement upon that interest-\\ning river, and with St. Augustine, New Smyrna, and In-\\ndian rive.r, upon the coast. It has direct rail connec-\\ntion with Tallahassee, the capital of the State, with\\nCedar Keys upon the west coast, and thence with all\\nthe Gulf ports, the keys, and Cuba, and with Savan-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "FOR A HUNDRED DOLLARS. 71\\nnail, via the old circuitous route, and a more direct new\\none. Being naturally, so centrally and commandingly\\nsituated, drawing tlie trade and productions of the St.\\nJohns, with its countless tributaries and lakes, it is the\\nplace of all places to obtain a first glimpse of Florida in\\nits most flourishing condition. The climate of Jackson-\\nville is not all that could be desired, for it does not pos-\\nsess that remarkable softness and warmth generally\\nsupposed to belong to Florida. It is subject to extremes\\nof temperature, and in winter will chill a sensitive\\ninvalid to the bones with its nocturnal frosts. It has\\nmuch that is desirable, however, in its bright warm days,\\nand possesses a grand birthright in the St. Johns alone.\\nHere the camper-out had better procure his outfit, except\\ntent and personal effects. From Jacksonville to Enter-\\nprise, 200 miles up the St. Johns, the fare by steamer is\\n$12, and of proportionable price to intervening landings.\\nTo Salt Lake, the farthest point reached by steamers\\n(curious stern-wheelers), it is about $6 more all freight\\nat the rate of about $1 per barrel a small boat up\\nthe St. Johns pays $5 for passage upon the steamers.\\nIndian river, the great game section, is reached via Salt\\nLake, from the St. Johns, the distance across land at\\nthat point being but six miles.\\nNew Smyrna, one hundred miles south of the mouth\\nof the St. Johns, has more inducements in fish and game\\nand real enjoyable camping life, but lacks the many\\nconveniences of diet and travel that the other places\\npossess. Few vessels visit it, and these for lumber,\\nchartered by live-oak contractors. For a party in good\\nhealth, with plentiful sujiplies, it is the best point one\\ncan choose for a few months stay, when the object is\\nmerely to gain flesh and have a good time hunting and", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "73 THREE MONTHS l^ FLORIDA\\nfishing. Two large lagoons, thirty miles in length,\\nenter the ocean at this point, and via the south, or\\nMoscLuito lagoon, can be reached the famous Indian\\nriver.\\nSt. Augustine, thougli claiming attention from its\\ndelightful climate and the interest attached to its ruins,\\nis not especially referred to, as not being in direct com-\\nmunication with the North. It has small sailing vessels,\\nas well as has New Smyrna, connecting it with Jackson-\\nville, and a rail connection with the St. Johns, but is a\\ndear place to visit.\\nWhen to go depends upon so many things that it\\nis not an easy matter to advise correctly. If one wished\\nmerely to get rid of cold weather, then the first of\\nDecember would be the time, being sufficiently early,\\nand in season to catch a parting touch of the hot season.\\nThe months of January, February, and March are prob-\\nably the best to spend in Florida being the pleasant-\\nest there, as well as the most trying to the invalid at\\nthe North.\\nPerhaps a few facts as to climate will be pertinent to\\nthe subject, and are accordingly produced. By reference\\nto my note book of three years ago I find that the temper-\\nature in January ranged from 28 to 80 deg. was more\\nequable in February and March, with less extremes,\\nthough growing warmer. The mean temperature of\\nJanuary was about 60 degrees. According to the only\\ntables at present accessible, the mean temperature in\\nJacksonville, for January, for 20 years, was 5e5 degrees,\\nfor February, 58 degrees, and for March, 63 degrees.\\nIn Augustine, for the same time and months, the means\\nwere, respectively, 57, 59, and 63 degrees, thirty degrees\\nwarmer than the mean temperature of West Point dur-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "FOR A HUITDRED DOLLARS. 73\\ning the same period and montlis. At Key West, the\\nextreme southern port of Florida and our Union, the\\nrange of the thermometer was nine degrees higher.\\nAt New Smyrna the temperature is essentially modified,\\nand on Indian river the change is much greater, temper-\\nature being several degrees warmer.\\nWith the object in view of spending two or three\\nmonths in Florida at an expenditure of no more than a\\nhundred dollars, the only mode of living practicable\\nwill be in the open air. To many of our readers, whose\\ncamp-fires have gleamed in every corner of the Union,\\nthe proposition to camp in such a wild and delightful\\nclimate as that of Florida would be hailed as likely to\\ngive the substance of things hoped for. Let those\\nwho wish, patronize the hotels at a monthly expense\\nexceeding our total outlay for the winter s trip. Camp-\\ning out, then, is to be the manner of living, and to do\\nthat successfully a tent is needed. If desired, this\\nluxury can be dispensed with and a shelter constructed\\nwith the stalks and leaves of the palmetto. To one\\nMiandy with an axe and knife, and an old cam-\\npaigner, this house-building would be a small matter.\\nIt is assumed, however, that the party be ignorant of all\\nthat pertains to camp life, and needs to go provided\\nwith a shelter from the elements. Now tents can be\\nbought in any variety, but what is really needed is\\nfirst, strength to withstand the weather, and the\\ngreatest amount of room consistent with weight and\\nbulk. A tent, large enough for a party of four, with\\nroom for traps, and provisions for two months, can\\nbe made at an expense of about $1-5, if made by the\\nparty, and of light, waterproof drilling. It should be\\nabout twelve feet long, with walls about four feet high,\\n4", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 THREE MONTHS IX FLORIDA\\nand slanting roof, witli ridge-pole six or seven feet from\\nthe ground. Should be made so that it can be tightly\\nclosed at times. Fifteen dollars for a tent, and thirty\\ndolhirs for passage down, amount to forty-tive dollars\\nalready expended. Can we provision and provide foi\\nthe welfare of the party with the remainder Let\\nus see.\\nAfter the tent-jioles are cut, at the place of camping,\\nwhich sliould be upon fresh ground, in a rather airy\\nsituation and tolerably near wood and water, the tent is\\npitched, and we have a habitation. If a party of four\\nstart together something is saved to each individual, as\\nthe labor and expense of freight, etc., is much less, borne\\nindividually. While one is driving tent-pins, and\\nanother cutting wood for fire, another can be preparing\\nthe food for cooking, while the fourth is hunting for the\\nlong Spanish moss (TiUcmdsia), for bedding. Provis-\\nions demand the first attention, and, in this matter\\nalone, much will depend upon the tastes of the camper-\\nout. Having but fifty odd dollars, and having many\\nwants to supply, some very close skirmishing must ensue\\nbetween actual and imaginary wants. It will be\\nadmitted that we must have pork. Without that the\\ncamper-out could hardly exist. It fries his potatoes\\n(provided tliere be a fire), cooks his flapjacks (if he has\\nany), and spatters and sizzles over a light-wood fire\\nin a way that, in itself, is refreshing to a hungiy hunter.\\nPork, then, must be taken, say fifty pounds this may\\nbe enougli and it may not there may be an abundance\\nof venison, when the pork will, of course, be consigned\\ntemporarily to solitary confinement but the chances\\nare, that pork will appear upon the table, or palmetto\\nleaf, three times and more, a day. Pork $5 dry salted", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "FOR A HUJ? DEED DOLLAES. 75\\nis best for transportation, and a coarse bag, denom-\\ninated gunny-bag, the best receptacle for it.\\nFlour, some persons may need to be told, is some-\\ntimes called the staff of life. That depends wholly\\nwhere it is. In some places it is made of secondary\\nimportance to whiskey, and the true Floridian regards\\nthe fluid that cheers, likewise inebriates, as the real staS\\nand mainstay of his existence. When the whiskey is\\ngone he is gone. When the popularly known staff is\\ngone, he can repair to the nearest hammock and cut a\\n^palmeeter cabbage; but no satisfactory substitute\\nexists indigenous to Florida for the much-loved whiskey.\\nFlour for one person, two months, sixty pounds. Bet-\\nter take the self-raising flour, either Hecker s or Jewell\\nBrothers being in convenient packages, and ready for\\nuse by the addition of a little water, and a stick (not\\nthe metaphorical stick it is much prized, and saves\\na great deal of labor. With the flour costing about $3,\\nand a box of good crackers (better than flour, because\\nahvays ready cooked), costing as much more, one will be\\nprepared with all the farinaceous food he needs during\\nhis stay. A few pounds of meal, costing nothing worth\\ncalculating, should be added. A bushel or a barrel of\\ngood potatoes is necessary, and if those give out, sweet\\npotatoes can be purchased at a dollar per bushel or less.\\nOut upon the man who would exclude the potato as a\\nluxury dispensable. We can afford it in the quantity\\ndesired, even with so small a balance remaining of our\\nhundred dollars. Who does not remember the delicious,\\ndelicate, fragile conceptions of potatoes sliced and pre-\\npared at the highest class restaurants At least, who\\ndoes not remember reading of them Two dollars fifty\\nfor potatoes, and as much more for coffee. Nothing so", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 THREE MONTHS I:N FLORIDA\\nhelps to strengthen one after a heavy tramp, or long\\nhunt, as a cup of good colfec. Carry it whole, brown it\\nin the frying-pan and pound it in a shot-bag with a\\naxe. Thus it will be kept until needed, of refreshing\\nstrength and aroma. The condensed coffee is liked by\\nsome, and if it suits the taste, should be taken, as it\\nsaves much in bulk and preparation. A dollar more\\nneeds to be added for this substitute. A little sugar, of\\ncourse, unless one prefers long sweetening, which\\nlatter is more liable to loss, being un-pick-up-able Avlien\\nspilt. A dozen cans of condensed milk, costing about\\nthree dollars, will last a single person a long time. If\\nthis is taken, the sugar may be disjiensed with if it is\\nnot, then take three dollars worth of cut loaf sugar. In\\na land of sugar-cane one need not be without sweetening\\nfor his coffee. Salt and pepper, a few pickles, or\\npickled onions, and a little condensed beef, in all not\\nexceeding three dollars to which may be added, very\\ngratefully, a choice list of delicacies, but they will not\\nbe allowed in this bill, as we haven t got any further\\nthan the larder, and liave expended sixty-eight dollars\\nalready. The indispensable cooking utensils are few.\\nFirst, as the chief friend of the camper-out, is the fry-\\ning-pan. Never omit it. Let it receive early attention.\\nIt should be a foot in diameter, well made of wrought\\niron, and with a Zoy^y/ handle. The handle is especially\\nmarked long in italics for the benefit of the novice in\\ncooking over an open fire.\\nNext in order is the bake kettle, an article once in\\nuse among our ancestors a hundred years ago, or so, in\\nthe good old times and to be found in every cracker\\nfamily at the South at the present day. The camper-\\nout cannot do without it. It should be at least a foot", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "FOR A HUNDRED DOLLARS. 77\\nin diameter, and cost, with the frying-pan, not over $3.\\nA quart tin cup, a tin plate, a knife and fork, and\\nspoon, will be seen only to be appreciated by the know-\\ning one. These may be duplicated, as the loss of either,\\nthough not wholly irreparable, might occasion discom-\\nfort. They cost but little, say a dollar or so. A sharp\\nknife should be in camp, but we are not Yankees if we\\ndo not have a jack-knife in our pocket. An axe or\\nhatchet should certainly be taken, say II for a hatchet.\\nA few matches, candles, a little soap, salve for bruises,\\nand liniment perhaps, should be taken, and two dollars\\nwill cover the whole bill.\\nAs no extra expense is entailed in respect to clothing,\\nnothing will be allowed for its purchase. If anything,\\nthere should be credit given for the amount saved by\\nwearing old clothes the entire winter. Aim to dress\\ncomfortably, and be able at times to dress warmly.\\nTake a good stock of old cast-off clothing, and remember\\nto donate it when you leave, for the benefit of some ona\\nyou are sure to meet him poorer than yourself.\\nWear woollen shirts and stockings, old trousers and\\nboots, and light, broad-brimmed felt hat. Take one\\npair water-proof leather boots, but rely mainly upon\\neasy fittiug shoes. An old overcoat is most acceptable\\nat times, for, though the temperature will rarely descend\\nbelow 35 or 40 degrees, it will certainly, at times, reach\\nto 28 degrees, and then the unprotected ones shiver.\\nIt is at night, however, that it is cold, and good blan-\\nkets are necessary. At least one pair army blankets,\\ncosting about 86. Rubber blanket, or better, a good\\nponcho, costing 12. A mosquito net, or bar, of fine\\nlawn or mosquito netting, is absolutely necessary, as\\nmosquitoes and sand-flies fairly revel at times, and at", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 THREE MONTHS IN FLORIDA\\nsuch times generally when the camper-out most desires\\nrepose commit insufferable depredations. Make the\\nbar of fine lawn or cotton cloth six feet long, four broad,\\nand three high. This will shelter two persons, or ought\\nto, and will cost about 12. A pocket compass is some-\\ntimes very valuable to one travelling in the woods, and\\nas he will not want to remain at all times in close\\nvicinage to camp, and as the faculty of direction is not\\ngenerally sufficiently developed in an amateur to enable\\nhim to wander far into the swamps without getting lost,\\none had better be taken. Expend a few dollars in fish\\nlines good, strong bass lines and hooks, and some\\nsmaller ones for sheepshead and smaller fish. These,\\nwith the expense of freight, will take at least five dol-\\nlars, making a total expense for the whole trip of ninety\\ndollars. This leaves l 10 for contingent expenses, which,\\nby a judicious expenditure, may be made to conduce\\nmaterially to the comfort of the camper-out. I flatter\\nmj Self that the amount would not have remained had I\\nnot, by very careful calculation, reduced his wants to\\nthe minimum. Do not cast about for some means of\\nspending this sum, though it may burn the pocket it\\nis best to retain a gri-p upon it, at least until the very\\nlast week of camping. By the addition of a few dollars\\none can secure a most convenient arrangement called a\\ncamp kit, containing everything desirable for cooking\\nin a small space. In a large pail is packed frying-pan,\\nplates, knives, forks, etc. in fact, everything necessary\\nto the wants of a party of six, for the sum of a dozen\\ndollars. And then there is the portable stove, which,\\nweighing but little and small in compass, will prove a\\nblessing in any camp. A kerosene stove is very con-\\nvenient, but will necessitate carrying fuel, while for", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "FOR A HUNDRED DOLLARS. 79\\nthe camp stove, the fuel is at hand, only needing to be\\ncut. I speak of these things lest any one should think\\nme regardless of their comfort. It is possible that some\\ndesiderata may be omitted, but the main desires and\\nwants, at least, are provided for. In provisions there\\nmay not be quite enough, but I think what I have enu-\\nmerated will cover the wants of a winter s stay. Fish\\nand game will very likely aid greatly in providing for\\nyour wants but then fish are sometimes very perverse\\nand will not bite, and turkeys, quail, and deer will per-\\nsist in secluding themselves in inaccessible places. That\\nten dollars should be sufficient to cover all extra outlay\\nfor provisions. Now I expect some cavilling person\\nwill say, You haven t provided gun or boat, nor many\\nother things necessary to one s comfort in a land un-\\nknown to him.\\nI know that. I didn t agree to merely promised to\\ntake you to Florida and back, giving a month on the\\nwater, two on land, for one hundred dollars. I have\\ndone more than that. I have provided for your wants\\nfor that period, not taking into consideration the fact that\\nyour bare board at the North would cost you twice the\\namount it will to camp. You haven t allowed for the\\nvalue of the cooking utensils, blankets, etc., after they\\nhave served your purpose, and you do not consider,\\nthough it is true as gospel, that you have, if an ordi-\\nnary man, saved at least half the expense of clothing\\na winter s residence at the North would necessitate.\\nReally the trip to Florida has cost you nothing, and with\\na little more time and figgerin I might perhaps\\nshow that you had made money by the venture. Any-\\nway, you will come back with a renewed lease of life, and\\nrejoicing in regained strength, which of themselves, are", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 THREE MONTHS IN FLORIDA\\ninestimable and incalcnlable. A gun, by all means,\\nsliould be taken, and if tbe clioice lies between shot gun\\nand rifle, take the former. With a shot gun one can\\nsecure a greater yariety of game than with a rifle, and\\nshould be able to supply the camp. Do not get a muzzle,\\nif you can procure a breech-loader. There is no com-\\nparison between them, and it is universally conceded\\nthat the breech-loader surpasses in safety, and rapidity of\\nloading and flring. There is little choice in the various\\nkinds, except in price they are all generally safe enough,\\nand the choice of selection will depend mainly upon\\nthe length of the purchaser s purse. Rifles are of all\\nprices, from the cheapest second-hand at $10 to the latest\\nand best Remington. A revolver is sometimes useful,\\nbut not necessary, unless one is expert enough to kill\\nsmall game with it. My word for it, there will be no\\noccasion, unless one visits the wilder portions of Florida,\\nfor its use upon larger game, if I may except an infre-\\nquent chance at deer or turkey. Take a few steel or\\nbrass shells for the breech-loader, but let the bulk of\\nthem be paper, which, costing but $1 per hundred, can\\nbe thrown away after discharged, and thus much weight\\nof carriage and annoyance avoided. By oiling them\\nwell they will not stick in the breech, and will prove\\neveryway serviceable. Carry a quarter-keg (6^ lbs.) of\\ngood powder, as it can be readily exchanged for other\\nthings, if not all needed. In shot, take three sizes a\\nfew pounds of buck ten pounds No. 2, and ten of No.\\n6 or 8. This will give sufficient variety without too\\ngreat weight. If caps are taken, choose the best Eley s.\\nThe cheaper grade of water-proof, at about 61 per m., is\\ngood enough.\\nAnd now, if one would enjoy himself to the fullest", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "FOR A HUKDllED DOLLARS. 81\\nextent, let him take a boat. Whether he camp on the\\ncoast or the St. Johns, he will find himself sadly at loss\\nfor means of conveyance, unless he has a boat of his own.\\nGood boats are scarce in Florida, out of the cities, and\\ncannot be obtained. It is not necessary that it be yalu-\\nable or fast sailing, but it should combine safety with\\nlightness and buoyancy. For merely coasting about the\\ncreeks and quiet portions of the inlets, a light boat, like\\na dory, or gunning skiff, is all that is needed. But\\nfor more extended trips, a larger one, built upon the\\nsame pattern, is what is wanted. When not in use, it\\nshould be drawn upon the sand and covered with pal-\\nmetto leaves to keep the sun from warping it. A coat\\nof copper paint is necessary to prevent the worms, in the\\nbrackish waters of the coast, from riddling it with holes.\\nIt is thought that everything is now provided for a\\nthree months trip, and after a few words regarding the\\ndrawbacks to enjoyment to be met in Florida, as else-\\nwhere, this paper will be brought to a close.\\nOf the many annoyances incident to a camp life in\\nFlorida, the insects take first rank. In fact, there are\\nno other real causes for complaint. Mosquitoes undoubt-\\nedly take precedence of all others as the most blood-\\nthirsty, persistent, and numerous. They cannot be\\nentirely avoided, though they may be kept at bay by the\\nuse of a good mosquito bar, large enough to cover blank-\\nets and bedding at night in the day time their depreda-\\ntions are confined to swamps and dark places. The\\nsand-flies, which sometimes appear in clouds, bite like a\\nbull-terrier, and sting like a red-hot iron. They will\\ncrawl into your hair, nose, ears, unless much care is\\nused, and withal, are undesirable neighbors. They bite\\nprincipally in early morning and evening, but are very\\n4*", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 THREE MOXTIIS IX FLORIDA\\nuncertain, and put in an appearance wlien least expected\\nor desired. Tlie mosquito is bad, tlie sand-fly is worse,\\nbut neither can hold a candle (figuratively speaking), to\\nthe flea. In many things the flea, the wicked flea, is\\nwholly unapi)roac]iable. He can jump farthest, hold\\nhis wind longest, and bite the cussedest of any members\\nof his tribe. Of all things the most annoying, he holds\\non, hits hard, and his persecutions end only with his\\ndeath. He is a regular hard-shell Baptist and if there\\nis no place of future punishment in his creed, his victim\\nfervently hopes there is one for fleas. If one of these\\ncrustaceans take up his abode with you, it is for life,\\nand should at once be hunted down. But the flea is not\\nindigenous to Florida, as is well known, and he has no\\nparticular State for habitat, though dwelling only in\\ncertain places. If the camp be pitched in an old plan-\\ntation, or near a family of crackers, where canine and\\nporcine quadrupeds do abound, then look out for fleas.\\nCamp on fresh ground, near no plantation, deserted or\\noccupied allow no dogs, hogs, or flea-haunted men near,\\nand you may be exempt from their ravages. Should a\\nflea obtain a lodgment in your garments (you will know\\nit at once), lose no time in dofiing your clothes and insti-\\ntuting a thorough and vigorous search. Remain out a\\nw^eek rather than carry him to camp. These are extreme\\nmeasures, not recommended only suggested.\\nScorpions sometimes alarm the camper by suddenly\\nappearing from under an overturned piece of bark, or\\nperhaps from under a blanket. They are not very com-\\nmon, and their sting, though painful, is not fatal.\\nThere is no danger from them unless suddenly grasped or\\nconfined in the clothing. They are very disagreeable\\nvisitors, however, and one that I happened to take in my", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "FOR A HUKDRED DOLLARS. 83\\nhand once, gave a rude shock to my nerves, though it\\ndid not bite. Tis said that salt and vinegar, or ammo-\\nnia, are antidotes, placed upon the sting. As prevent-\\nives for bites of mosquitoes take tar and oil and smear\\nthe face and hands, though there is a feeling against\\nsuch a remedy. Ammonia is recommended, thougli of\\nlittle use. Fear of snakes is almost wholly groundless.\\nThough many varieties exist in Florida, there are but\\ntwo to be feared, the moccasin and rattlesnake. The\\nformer is in great abundance in the swamps, though the\\nrattlesnake is not common. Both are exceedingly veno-\\nmous, and their bites speedily prove fatal. There is lit-\\ntle danger to be apprehended, except from snakes in\\nthe grass the danger being in stepping upon one un-\\nawares. There are many remedies, which may be spoken\\nof in the next article, but the one surest in effect and\\nmost generally in use is w^hiskey in large doses and soon\\ntaken. This may account for the general and wide-spread\\nuse of that article, as it is in great demand, and there\\nare many who believe that a pound of prevention is\\nworth an ounce of cure, and act accordingly.\\nHealthfulness of the country is the first considera-\\ntion. It has been abundantly and conclusively shown\\nthat Florida is tolerably free from any endemic disease.\\nThe climate of the coast is remarkably salubrious and\\nconducive to health. Except in the near vicinage of\\nswamps, and along the rivers and fresh- water lakes\\nin summer, there is no cause for alarm, and one can\\npreserve his health with tolerable care. A winter s resi-\\ndence in any section of Florida is not likely to give one\\nwhat is so universally and justly dreaded\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the shakes.\\nI have camped in swamps and marshes night after night,\\nand passed weeks upon the banks of rivers and lakes,", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 THREE MONTHS IIS FLORIDA.\\nwith no covering over me at night except my blanket\\nand mosquito bar, and liave yet to feel the slightest\\ntouch of fever. I have known of instances of fever the\\nfirst season, but do not think the disease was contracted\\nthere. So far as my observation extends, I am inclined\\nto agree fully with one better qualified to judge than\\nmyself, that Florida possesses a much more agreeable\\nand salubrious chmate than any other State or Territory\\nin the Union.\\nFeed Beverly.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "VIII.\\nSUPPLEMENTARY HINTS FOR CHEAP\\nRECREATION.\\nTHE first consideration to the winter visitor to\\nFlorida, is tlie climate, which is delightful. I do\\nnot think so agreeable a place can be found in the United\\nStates. I am not so good a judge of the winter climate\\nof California, having spent but one winter there, and\\nthink the climate of Florida much more dry, five days\\nout of six bright and cloudless three, four, and five\\nweeks at a time, clear and bright, and of most agi ce-\\nable temperature, and even as far north as Palatka there\\nare generally but two or three niglits in the whole\\nwinter that ice is formed. Rain rarely falls, and this is\\nthe great charm of winter climate, and enables the\\nsportsman to be comfortable in his tent, when in Georgia,\\nTexas, or California, he would wish himself in the hotel.\\nThe whole coast, east and west, swarms with fish, and\\nof a very fine quality pompano, sheepshead, grouper,\\nred-fish, king-fish, Spanish mackerel, mullet, turtle, and\\nsuch oysters for flavor and size they beat anything to\\nbe found North. The St. Johns river is also full of fish.\\nShad are plenty all winter, and in the upper parts of\\nthe river black bass were so plenty as to often jump\\ninto our boats, and eight to ten pounders are very com-\\nmon. Game, except quail, is getting scarce about the", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 SUPPLEMEXTARY HIKTS\\nlarger places but you have only to go into the country\\nto find abundance of deer and turkey.\\nWhen I commenced, I intended from my experience\\nto tcU of a more pleasant way to spend winters in\\nFlorida than Mr. Beverly s (provided you have money\\nenough), and without costing near as much as to live at\\nthe hotels, have a better table, and lots of fine sport,\\nand withal tlie most comfortable and pleasant way a\\ncompany of gentlemen can spend winters in Florida.\\nLet a half dozen good fellows get up a liglit-draft stern-\\nwheel steamer, to draw about twenty inches of water\\njust such a boat as the little Clifton, so well known on\\nthe St. Johns river for scYcral years. The writer was on\\nboard of her for two winters. She cost about $4,000,\\nbuilt and fitted up at Philadelphia, was used four or five\\nwinters as a pleasure-boat, and then sold for a ferry-boat\\nwithout much loss. Three men made up the crew.\\nThe whole expense was about 815 each day, which,\\ndivided among six, was not high for such fishing and\\nhunting as we used to get and such bird suppers as\\nKcuben could get up I never expect to see again. This\\nboat was built by a party of gentlemen from Clifton\\nSprings, New York, and run down from Philadelphia.\\nOne could be got up much cheaper now, in Jacksonville.\\nSuch a boat can go to the upper waters of the St. Johns,\\nabove where hunters go, and where game is plenty.\\nThe St Johns is a wonderful river, and one of great\\nmagnitude, and it has always been a wonder to me where\\nso much fresh water comes from. It runs from south\\nto north, is over 300 miles long, and in many places is\\nvery near the coast. It appears more like a beautiful\\nchain of lakes, for more tlian a hundred miles from\\nits mouth, and will average nearly two miles wide,", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "FOR CHEAP RECREATION 87\\nfor that distance. The tide is felt as far up as Pilatka,\\nand what appears singular, when it is high water at the\\nmouth of the river it is low tide at Jacksonville. Visi-\\ntors should always go up as far as Enterprise, to see the\\nbeautiful lakes and wonderful springs. We could not\\nget the Clifton much above Lake Winder. A floating\\nisland covered with willows had drifted across the chan-\\nnel, and we could only get up in small boats to Lake\\nWashington. We found Lake Winder a fine place for\\ngame deer and turkeys where very abundant, and more\\nsnipe than w^e had seen in Florida. We also found\\nmany birds which we did not see about Lakes Harney and\\nJessup. The carrocca eagle, in full, light plumage, was\\ncommon also the purple gallinule, coast bittern, yellow-\\ncrowned night heron and we found many extensive\\nbreeding places. This is the home of the alligators, and\\nthey used to trouble us by getting our birds as they fell\\ninto the water, before we could get to them. Sport can\\nbe had with alligators by bating a shark hook with a\\ncoot, or some other bird. Fasten the end of the rope to\\nthe top of a small tree that bends well, and in the morn-\\ning you are almost sure to find one hooked. If a large\\none, you can only pull him into the bank if a small one,\\nkeep away from his tail, or teeth, and to get your\\nhook, after you are done playing with him, you must\\nshoot him. In their stomachs you will most always find\\na roll of feathers, fish, and often large moccasin snakes,\\nand they sometimes eat one another. I have seen one,\\neight feet long, in a large one s mouth. Favorite birds\\nfor our party to slioot were the white-plumed cranes,\\negrets, snowy herons, for their plumes and we could\\nmake quite good collections of Florida bird skins. The\\nsteamer had two small boats, so we could go up the", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 SUPPLEME^-TARY HIXTS\\nsmall creeks and wc explored most every lake and\\nstream on the river. Although we were so far south, we\\nhad no trouble with insects. All the windows had wire\\ngauze, and we were careful to keep the doors shut. Our\\nsleeping accommodations and our dining room were very\\ngood. The boat would run about ten miles an hour,\\nand we could change our location very easily. AVe\\nfound moccasin snakes very abundant in the upper\\ncountry, but had no trouble with them. One day we\\nlost a rowlock from the boat, and proposed to the black\\nman, Bill, to take off his clothes and get it up with his\\nfeet. As he reached the bottom he stepped on a large\\nsnake, which coiled about his leg. He went ashore with\\na yell, and one of our party said he was the whitest man\\nin the lot. He was sure he was bit, and kept hold of\\nhis pulse to see if he was not dying but was not hurt.\\nThe snake appeared as much frightened as Bill. We\\nsaw very few rattlesnakes. One of our party, Mr. Rice,\\nat Lake Jessup, shot a white heron that fell into the\\nwater near the shore. He saw a large alligator start\\nfor the bird, and Rice thought he could get the\\nbird before the alligator, which he did, and threw the\\nbird over his shoulder, the alligator following and as\\nhe reached the bank the alligator struck his legs, but did\\nhim no damage. I have made this paper too long, and\\ncan recommend for real comfort such a cruise. Such\\na steamer, after going up the St. Johns river could be\\ntaken around to St. Augustine, and so down to Indian\\nriver, and the expense less than to live at the hotels.\\nGeo. a. BoARDMAii", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "FOE CHEAP KECKEATIOiq 89\\nANOTHER PLAK FOR CHEAP RECREATION.\\nIt has been stated that the trip to Enterprise from\\nJacksonyille will cost $12, and to retura $12 entire\\ntrip, $24. A large portion of this expenditure can be\\nadvantageously saved by the tourists making the trip in\\na small boat. If the seeker for pleasure camps out at a\\nparticular point on the river, he will soon tire of a daily\\nview of the same objects, and crave for pastures new. A\\nperson who proposes spending several months in the State\\nwould find a boat journey pleasant, as well as instructive.\\nLet two or three excursionists unite and purchase a\\nsecond-hand batteau about eighteen feet long, which can\\nbe obtained at from twenty to thirty dollars in any of\\nour Northern cities supply her with centreboard,\\nrudder, and a sprit, or leg-of-mutton sail, costing in the\\naggregate from thirty-five to forty-five dollars. We vis-\\nited Jacksonville a few days since, and made inquiries\\nregarding the price of boats, and we have reason to\\nbelieve that the boat would. prove a safe investment, and\\nbring cost price if the boat was even abandoned at end\\nof trip, her purchase would prove a more profitable in-\\nvestment than paying for passage up and down the river.\\nFrom Jacksonville to Pilatka, and at otlier points along\\nthe river, a sail can be used as a means of effecting a\\nchange of base and when old Boreas fails in his atten-\\ntions, an ashen breeze can be used ad liMtiun, and the\\nriver ascended at from two to three miles per hour.\\nWith a boat, the tourists could examine the various\\ntributaries and lakes en rouie, and visit unfrequented\\nlocalities, where excellent hunting and fishing can be se-\\ncured. At Enterprise the tourists could secure a stock", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 SUPPLEMENTARY mXTS\\nof provisions, ascend tlic river to Lakes Winder and\\nAVasliington, and enjoy hunting and fishing in localities\\nseldom visited by sportsmen.\\nHaving lived in tents in more than one portion of\\nthe world, I flatter myself that I am an autliority on\\nnomadic subjects, and must diUer with your correspond-\\nent regai ding the construction of tents. He recom-\\nmends one with walls four feet high, but trampers will\\nfind an A-shaped tent, seven feet to ridge, nine feet deep\\nand seven feet wide, the most portable, easiest to pitch,\\nbest to shed rain, coolest under a hot sun, and last, though\\nnot least, the cheapest and easiest to make by the unin-\\nitiated. The cost of the material, at eighteen cents per\\nyard, would be about five dollars, and the trampers\\ncould make it on board of the vessel before reaching\\nJacksonville.\\nFood is an important item, and a proper fit-out in\\nthe way of fishing tackle and sporting appliances w^ould\\nadd to the culinary department as well as curtail expen-\\nditure for eatables. If unsupplied with strong-jointed\\nrods, we would advise the excursionists to provide them-\\nselves, before leaving the North, with four strong Japan\\ncane rods (not bamboo,) a few spinners and spoons, and\\nsome strong lines and Virginia, Limerick, or Chestertown\\nhooks. A mess of trout (bass) can be captured at any\\ntime by trolling with a spinner and line from GO to 120\\nfeet in length, in open water. But as lily pads exist in\\nmany lakes, ponds, and rivers, a bob must be used. A\\nvery useful bob can be made by tying a few scarlet feath-\\ners to a strong hook. Line to be about three feet in\\nlengtli, and attached to the end of a long and stout pole.\\nOne must cautiously row the boat, and another skitter\\nthe open places between tlie lily pads. When a fish is", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "FOE CHEAP RECREATION 91\\nhooked, the fisherman must haul in his rod hand over\\nhand, for if a large fish is allowed to play among the lily\\npads, and foul the h ne, the excursionists will be apt to\\nretire to roost supperless. The above has not been\\nwritten for the benefit of experts but for those whose\\nlarder may require replenishing. The artistic mode of\\nfishing for trout (bass) is with rod, reel, float, and min-\\nnow in open water. The uninitiated will ask. How am I\\nto capture minnows in the wilderness, where earth-worms\\ncannot be secured for bait I am disposed to aid the\\ngree.nhorn, and would advise him to examine the stems\\nof the lily pads, and in many of them he will discover a\\nsmall hole. If the stem is split open a borer will be\\ndiscovered and if these, with small hooks, are used in\\nshallow water, a supply of minnows can be captured.\\nBut by using a bob, a spinner, or spoon, a supply of fish\\ncan be secured at almost any point above Pilatka.\\nIf three should unite in an excursion to Florida, the\\ncost of trip by sailing vessel and return would be $90\\n(and as a majority of vessels go out light, transportation\\ncould be secured for boat free of charge). Expense of\\nboat, $40 small stove and cooking utensils, $10 fishing\\nrods and tackle, $8 ammunition, $12 tent, $6. Leav-\\ning $134 for provisions and incidental exjoenses. We\\nhave reason to believe that the boat would bring $20, if\\nnot prime cost, which would be placed to the credit of\\nthe provision account. By the use of a boat the trip\\ncan be made for a very small sum.\\n^Al Peesco.", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "IX.\\nUP THE ST. JOHNS EIVER.\\nr\\nFOUR winters ago the writer was one of a merry\\ndozen who, on pleasure bent, helped swell the\\noverwhelming stream of tourists who, fleeing from the\\nNorthern cold, sought shelter in the Sunny South.\\nAfter various incidents of travel we found ourselves in the\\ncrowded joarlors of the St. James at Jacksonville, and\\nplanned our trip. Two years have wrought great\\nchanges since then, even in that sleepy land, and I am\\npleased that this winter s flock of tourists will find better\\nliotel accommodations everywhere than fell to our lot on\\nthat day. Even as it was Tocoi railroad and all\\nthat trip is one to be remembered a life-time and all\\nwho can make it should do so.\\nWe left Jacksonville on a bright warm morning, in\\nthe Florence, a comfortable boat, with courteous and\\nobliging officers and comfortably seated on deck en-\\njoyed the trij) exceedingly from Jacksonville to Tocoi.\\nEvery mile carried us farther from the frosty North.\\nThe St. John is a magnificent stream. Originating\\namong the Everglades in the south of Florida, it flows\\nnorthward nearly three hundred miles, when it bends\\nsharply to the cast, and empties into the ocean twenty-\\nthree miles from Jacksonville, which is at the bond.\\nFor over one hundred miles from its mouth it will aver-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "UP THE ST. JOH]S S RIYER. 93\\nage three miles in breadth, expanding occasionally into\\nbeautiful lakes. Thus the first day of our trip we were\\nin such wide waters that, except as we approached the\\nlandings, we did not get the benefit of the semi-tropical\\nscenery of the banks. But the air was soft and balmy,\\nthe sky blue, water smooth and clear, and we, just\\nstarted and fresh, w^ere in high spirits and enjoyed every\\nmoment.\\nOur first landing was at Mandarin, where, amid an\\norange grove and splendid group of water-oaks, Mrs.\\nStowe has built herself a home. The place is but a ham-\\nlet, and after delivering our mail we hurry along but\\nnot until they have rounded a point and shut in the view\\ndo the tourists relinquish their gaze upon this sunny\\nSouthern, home. Twelve miles farther carries us to Mag-\\nnolia. At this point v/e found a goodly assemblage of\\nguests. The hotel accommodations are the best, the\\nhotel itself is beautifully situated, and a good table, with\\ngood attendance, insure a good time. Black Creek is a\\nnavigable stream for fishermen and sportsmen. On a\\nsunny day its banks are lined with alligators, while fish\\nand game of all descriptions are j^lentiful. Two miles\\nabove Magnolia is Green Cove Springs, where are also a\\ngood hotel and boarding house. This is a great resort\\nfor invalids, who can enjoy daily a bath in a sulphur\\nspring, wdiich has given the place its importance. This\\nfamous spring is situated about a hundred yards from the\\nlanding, amid a group of great water-oaks which, covered\\nwith hanging festoons of gray moss and mistletoe, add to\\nits beauty more than any artificial setting could to this\\nemerald gem. The spring boils up in great lumps from\\na deep crevice, and fills a pool some twenty feet in diame-\\nter with its bright but greenish-hued water, clear as a", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 UP THE ST. JOHNS RITER.\\ncrystal a green crystal. Every little speck on the bot-\\ntom is distinctly visible, even in the deep crevice, which\\nis, I slionld judge, abont twenty feet in depth. The\\noutlet forms quite a little river, and over it a bathing\\nhouse lias been built and here those suffering witli rheu-\\nmatic or kindred complaints luxuriate in its warm em-\\nbrace. Seventy-six degrees is the average temperature\\nsummer and winter, seldom varying from this point more\\nthan a degree or two. The water is slightly sulphurous\\nmore perceptibly so in the odor than in the taste, but\\nsufficiently to banish any form of animal or reptile life\\nfrom its proximity. This, in a country which snakes are\\nsaid to frequent, is in itself a great inducement, but I am\\ninclined to think that the snake crop of Florida is vastly\\noverrated. An old hunter told me that he had been out\\nfor deer at least three times a week since Christmas, and\\nhad not encountered a snake. On the other hand, one\\nof the natives informed me that there was a right\\nsmart clumce of moccasins. But wherever else they\\nmay locate, the Green Cove Spring is exempt, and the\\ninvalid may enjoy his bath without a nervous tremor.\\nAbout noon we arrived at Tocoi or, as we afterward\\ndubbed it. Decoy forty-five miles from Jacksonville.\\nThis miserable apology for a place contains one old\\ntumble-down house, and two rough board shanties,\\nwhich latter constitute the depot at the western ter-\\nminus of the St. Augustine railroad. This road is\\nfifteen rniles in length, and should make an easy\\napproach to St. Augustine. We thought we were\\nnearly there, but we knew more about it soon after-\\nward. Could we have but foreseen the hardships we\\nwere to go through, we might have decided not to\\nproceed. Two hours strolling about or sitting on logs", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "UP THE ST. JOHI^S KIVEE. 95\\nunder tlio sliadeless pines used up our time, while a\\nlittle asthmatic tea-kettle of a steam-engine was being\\ntinkered into going condition. Finally, ready for its\\ntask, it was hitched to two dilapidated boxes on wheels,\\ninto which, by tight crowding, we succeeded in squeez-\\ning ourselves. The day was chilly, the cars full of\\ncracks and drafts where there should have been\\nwindows but the holes remained and water-proofs and\\ncapes had to be substituted for glass. We needed but a\\nrain to complete our discomfort. The road itself is, if\\npossible, more disgraceful than the cars, the rails of pine\\nand cypress (no iron) were worn, chipped, shivered, and\\nrotten. We smashed one fiat to the ties, and had a\\nnarrow escape from being capsized into the swamp and\\nhad our engine the power to have bumped us along a\\nfew feet further, we should have had a serious, perhaps\\nfatal, accident to wind up our pleasure trip. As it was,\\nall hands turned out, and lifting our crazy vans again\\nupon the track, we crawled along for nearly five hours,\\ndelaying at times to put a new rail on the track, to dip\\na few bucketf uls of muddy water from the ditch into the\\nboiler, or to cut up a log to furnish nutriment to our\\nwheezy little engine. At last, the fifteen miles accom-\\nplished, we reached St. Augustine tired and worn-out.\\nMay we never have to go over that road again. The\\nroad leads through a swampy country, and some of the\\nscenery was almost grand great cypress trees, with\\ntheir swollen feet standing in murky pools, and draped\\nwith huge weepers of gray moss hanging from every\\nbranch three to six feet in length foul turkey-buzzards\\nresting upon the lofty trees, or sailing about in muffled,\\nnoiseless flight, gave a funereal character to the scenery\\nfrom which Dante might have drawn his inspiration. I", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 UP THE ST. JOHNS RIVER.\\nam sure we saw tlie counterpart of the Stygian pool.\\nAnd 3 et it was not all so gloomy. Bright-lmed flowers,\\ngreen parasites entwining whole groups of adjacent trees,\\ngreat bunches of mistletoe on the oaks, and now and\\nthen a bright cardinal bird or blue jay flitting among\\nthe branches, gave us plenty to admire, and almost\\nwhiled away the time and we had our own internal\\nresources songs, stories, and hard-boiled eggs.\\nIn the morning, after our arrival at St. Augustine,\\nour first trip was to the Old Fort. This venerable\\npile of coquina is interesting principally because of\\nits antiquity, and from the historical associations\\nconnected with it. Started three hundred years ago,\\nit was a hundred years in building. It was owned\\nand garrisoned successively by Spanish, English,\\nUnited States, and Confederate troops. It was bom-\\nbarded by Sir Francis Drake s fleet, the marks of\\nwhose balls are still visible on its sea face. It has\\ngloomy dungeons, in one of which, discovered some\\nyears since by accident, two chained skeletons were\\nfound. It has an old vaulted chapel, with its altar and\\nniches for images, now all defaced, and the floor marred\\nand scarred as though it had been used to chop wood on.\\nOur irreverent member thought that the old monks\\nmust have had sharp knees, from the looks of the floor.\\nThe old sergeant, who acted as our cicerone, is a\\ncharacter, and relieved his dry statistics with a drier\\nhumor peculiarly his own. He showed us a dungeon\\nwhere two Seminole chiefs I forget their names had\\nbeen confined, and a slit in the wall through which one\\nof them escaped. They must have starved that Indian\\nvery successfully before he could have accomplished it.\\nA subterranean passage is popularly supposed to exist,", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "UP THE ST. JOHITS RIYER. 97\\nconnecting the fort witli the convent, but it has not been\\nfound. In one of the dungeons the old sergeant\\nsprang upon us what was evidently a pet joke. Paus-\\ning in his tale until the loiterers were collected around\\nhim, and standing in chilly reverence, he told us of some\\nprisoners who, from that very dungeon, had attempted\\nto escape by burrowing under the walls. He told us of\\nthe great distance to be undermined before reaching the\\nmoat and liberty some thirty yards, I believe. Stand-\\ning with his back to the wall he slowly lighted half a\\ndozen dips as he talked, then turning suddenly aside he\\nthrew the concentrated rays into a hole about two feet\\ndeep, and curtly remarked, They didn t succeed.\\nWith this co^lp de theatre the old gentleman, satisfied\\nthat he had ended well, left us to find our way to the\\nouter air and to stroll through the narrow streets of\\nthe town, between the high dead walls and under the\\nprojecting balconies that characterize the Spanish style\\nof building and give to St. Augustine an asj^ect so dif-\\nferent from anything to be seen elsewhere in the United\\nStates. The names of the streets, and the signs over\\nthe stores, show the Spanish origin of the inhabitants\\nfor instance, our party were domiciled at Mrs. Mer-\\ncedes Mrs. Hernandez and Mrs. Seguis and we\\nshopped at Madame Oliveros The Spanish cast of\\nfeature prevails, too, and a dark-eyed, black-haired\\nbrunette, whom I saw leaning over a balcony, carried me\\nback to days gone by, when, in old Spain herself, I\\nhave seen her counterpart. A walk along the sea wall,\\nbuilt of coquina (a concrete of shells), which fronts the\\ntown, where the fresh sea-breeze brought new vigor to\\nour tired steps, and a cruise among the establishments\\ndevoted to the manufacture of palmetto hats, brought\\n5", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 UP THE ST. JOnXS RITER.\\nour till} to a close. Tliese liats are being iiianafacturetl\\nand sold in immense nun bers. One lady Madame\\nOliveros who has the most extensive establishment,\\nemploys fifty women, and her sales in one season, I was\\ntold, amounted to seven thousand.\\nWe left St. Augustine with mixed emotions while\\nwe had received the utmost kindness and hospitality\\nfrom private individuals, hitherto strangers to us, and\\nwTre delighted at the quaint old-fashioned town, and\\ncharmed with the warm, pleasant climate tempered by a\\nbracing sea-breeze, we had nothing i)lcasant to remember\\nof those wdiose duty it was to look out for the comfort\\nof guests and we felt that until good hotels, large\\nenough and wtII enough conducted to furnish some\\ncomforts, could be added to its present stock, and until\\nsome method of getting there free from the discomfort,\\nanxiety, and danger of the Tocoi railroad can be de-\\nvised, the invalid should avoid, and the pleasure-seeker\\nlice from it.\\nOur trip to Tocoi was made in the same comfortless\\nboxes, and a good hard rain was added to the previous\\ndiscomforts. We got over without serious accident, but\\ntlie pleasure of the rest of the trip was alloyed by the\\nillness of some of the more delicate, brought on by the\\nhardship of the trip.\\nAt Tocoi w^e found the Ilattie awaiting us a small\\nsteamer, but necessarily so, as the rest of our trip\\nwas to be made in narrow streams and shoal water.\\nWe were very comfortal)le on board of her. The table\\nwas good, quarters clean, and the captain Charley\\nBrock a good felloAV. Our first stopping place was\\nPilatka, ten miles beyond, and here we remained until\\nsome time in the night, to enable us to pass over tUo", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "UP THE ST. JOHXS RITER. 99\\nentrance to Lake George by daylight. This gave us\\nopj)ortanity for a stroll about the town, and to enjoy\\na most delicious supper at a well-kept hotel, the Putnam\\nHouse.\\nPilatka is the head of navigation for the larger\\nsteamers plying on the river, and has considerable com-\\nmerce. Leaving at midnight, we awoke the next morn-\\ning in the midst of scenery ever to be remembered.\\nThe river is narrow, the banks but a few feet off, as the\\nchannel neared one shore or the other, and are densely\\ncovered with a tropical vegetation. Palms, palmettos,\\nwater-oaks, and pines are the principal large trees, all\\nfestooned with gray moss. The stream is so crooked\\nthat at no one time can we see half a mile in advance\\nthus gliding along with our visual limit constantly cir-\\ncumscribed, we seem to be in the centre of an ever-\\nadvancing and ever-changing panorama herons, cranes,\\nducks, and other birds of all descri^Dtions give animation,\\nand if the day be sunny, countless alligators dozing upon\\nthe banks furnish rare sport to the sportsman. Some-\\ntimes great monsters, twelve to fourteen feet in length,\\nare seen, and eagerly shot and if a large one be shot,\\nthe obliging captain will stop the boat to secure the\\nhead, which, when reduced to the condition of skull\\nalone, is considered quite a curiosity, while the teeth are\\nof beautiful ivory, and are carved into all sorts of trin-\\nkets. Our day, though, was cold and rainy, and alligators\\nscarce few were seen, and none killed. At first the\\nmore timid of our lady companions objected shrinkingly\\nto our firing from their midst, but after a few palpable\\nmisses they became convinced that our rifles were not\\ndangerous, even to tlie game, and from protesting\\nagainst it became rather fond of the sport and they", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 UP THE ST. JOHNS RIVER.\\nall foTfrot that it was Sunday till a sharp rain drove U3\\nin and broke up the shooting match then they expressed\\nthemselves\\nJust before sunset we entered Lake Munroe, where\\nthe river exi)ands into a noble lake, over six miles in\\ndiameter. On its western side is situated the town of\\nMcllenville, where we got such beauties of lemons, ten\\nto twelve ounces each, and cheap four cents apiece.\\nThence we crossed over to Enterprise. This little place\\nconsists of a hotel, a store, and two or three houses, and\\nhas a population of perhaps forty. It is the farthest\\npoint to which a regular line of steamers plies, but to the\\nsportsman there is still another hundred miles of narrow\\nriver, deep lagoons, gloomy bayous, and wild, untrodden\\nland, where all sorts of game, such as bears, wild turkeys,\\ndeer, and ducks are plentiful, and the waters teem with\\ngreat varieties of fish. Splendid black bass, ten pounds\\nin weight, abound they call them trout here besides\\nbream, perch, and great catfish, from three pounds up\\nto incredible figures. For the benefit of travellers, I\\nwould state that the story of the bears here being web-\\nfooted is not strictly in accordance with fact. Tiiere is\\na fair hotel at Enterprise. It is clean, beautifully situ-\\nated near an jo range grove, with a fine outlook on the\\nlake, a fine sulphur spring near by, and a little lake\\ntwo miles inland, where our fishermen secured a fine\\nstring of black bass in an afternoon s fishing, and a\\nwoody back country, which, when Tyson goes out with\\nhis hounds, will always yield at least one deer, and gen-\\nerally more. From here parties penetrate into the\\nIndian river country, where a bag of a dozen alligators\\nis but an ordinary day s work. The little steamer\\nSilver Spring, with au experienced captain, takes", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "UP THE ST. JOHNS RIVER. 101\\ncharge of this part of the ceremony. At Enterprise we\\nsucceeded in getting a few oranges. The crop had all\\nbeen picked and sold, and oranges were not so plentiful\\nin Florida as in New York. Although we saw none of\\nthe sweet oranges on the trees (March 20th to 30th), yet\\nwe were fully as much pleased with the sight of the wild\\norange. This fruit, although uneatable, is larger and\\nof a more golden hue than the eatable orange the leaf\\nis nearly the same, but of a darker, glossier green, and\\nthe flower identical. These we saw in profusion. A\\ngreat drawback to the success of agricultural pursuits in\\nFlorida is the latinia, or scrub palmetto, growing as a\\nbush from three to fiye feet in height. Its roots extend\\nin all directions near the surface, like great cables three\\ninches in diameter, and form an impervious network\\nthrough which a plough cannot be forced.\\nLeaving Enterprise at one A. m., we again had a\\ncold and rainy day. Wise through experience, we did\\nnot waste our time watching for alligators that would\\nnot come out, so made ourselves happy in the cabin.\\nAt Green Cove our party broke up all who could re-\\nmaining at that lovely spot, and the rest of us parting\\nhere and there, as our roads homeward diverged.\\nL. A. Beardslee.", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "X.\\nINDIAN RIVER.\\nBEGINNING some thirty or thirty-five miles to the\\nsouthwiird of St. Augustine,, and extending along\\nthe coast of Florida about one hundred and seventy-live\\nor eighty miles, are two salt water-lagoons, separated\\nfrom the ocean by a mere narrow fringe of sand. The\\nlarger and more soutlnvard of these is known as Indian\\nriver, and the other as Mosquito lagoon. Tliey are sepa-\\nrated by a low belt of sand, resting upon a bed of shell\\nconglomerate scarcely two miles broad.\\nIt is, however, with Indian river that I have present\\nconcern, as it is possessed of peculiar, extraordinary, and\\nlittle known attractions and resources, which, if properly\\ndeveloped, would make it an unequalled sanitarium for\\npulmonary subjects. With its northern extremity near\\nCape Canaveral, this sheet of water stretches southward\\nfor about one hundred and fifty miles, with but one narrow\\ncommunication with the ocean Indian River Inlet, lati-\\ntude 27 deg. 30 min. nortli. Tlie long, narrow strip of\\nsand on either side of the inlet, wliich, as I have said,\\nseparates the lagoon from the ocean, is nowhere broader\\nthan one mile. Here and there the winds and waves\\nhave heaped up the sand into clusters of low dunes, but\\nnext to the waters of the lagoon there is a dense growth\\nof the mangrove {Rhizophoracea), wood of small diameter.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "INDIAN RIVER, 103\\nbut of a beautiful red color, and takes a very fine polish,\\nand the whole zone is thickly dotted witli the graceful,\\npicturesque, and useful cabbage palmetto tree, which is\\nvaluable as a timber for many purposes, and its leaves\\nalso, while its unexpanded young foliage is a delicious\\nvegetable. Other and even more valuable trees of the same\\n(palm) species might be largely introduced, as, for ex-\\nample, the cocoanut, which has been shown to flourish\\nthere. It is in part this low-lying skirt of luxuriantly\\nwooded, dry sandy soil, breaking the force of tempestuous\\nwinter winds, met at times on the southern Atlantic\\ncoast, which makes the western shore of Indian river so\\nhighly favorable as a winter residence for invalids.\\nNear Indian Eiver Inlet, upon the main land, a mili-\\ntary post (Fort Capron) was established in November,\\n1849, and careful meteorological observations were taken\\nfor a series of years, which show rare climatological\\ncharacteristics peculiarly favorable for pulmonary pa-\\ntients, that is to say, a singularly equable temperature\\nwith comparative dryness. For example, during a period\\nof five years ending with 1854 the mean temperature of\\nthe winter months was 63 deg. 20 min., with a relatively\\nsmall rain-fall during the late autumn, winter, and early\\nspring months, or 217 fair-weather days for the year.\\nThe lagoon has a coralline bed, and is free from\\nmarshes. Communicating with the sea by Indian\\nRiver Inlet, as I have stated, it likewise receives a\\ngood deal of fresh water through Santa Lucia river,\\nv\\\\ hich is an outlet of the Everglades. It teems to an\\nalmost incredible degree with fish of the finest and most\\npalatable varieties, including that most delicate and\\ntoothsome of all American fish, the pompano. Never,\\nindeed, on either the Atlantic, Gulf, or Pacific coast", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 IMHAV KIVKU.\\nhave I seen fish so fat and well llavored. The ordinary\\nmullet, here very fine, is found in extraordinary shoals at\\ncertain seasons, and nowhere else is the sheepshead so\\nline and dainty a lish as in Indian river. As for the\\noyster, it is worth a visit to Indian river to eat those\\nfound there, especially those which have been trans-\\nplanted their flavor is the finest in the United States.\\nSome four miles southward of the inlet, the western\\nshore rises some thirty feet above the level of the sea into\\na bluff of com})act, broken, or decomposed shell, for some,\\ndistance. Here there are fine situations for building,\\nwith the necessary !-i)ace for small })lantations of tropical\\nfruits and plants, which thrive so well in all that region.\\nThere are already orange orchards which have been\\nplanted for a quarter of a century. The pineapple,\\nfound in most of its numerous varieties, and other inter-\\ntropical fruits, do as well here as in the Antilles. North-\\nward the shore is skirted in large part by narrow reaches\\nof dry hammock land, covered with the live-oak. This\\nsoil is shallow, but underlaid by a marl, which keeps\\nfresh its virgin fertility, and is found particularly well\\nadapted to the growth of sugar-cane, which comes to\\nflower or tassel on Indian river as in Cuba, but not hab-\\nitually in Louisiana. Therefore, the cane of Indian\\nriver is richer in saccharine matter to the pound than\\nthat of Louisiana.\\nImmediately back of these arable tracts, the very tim-\\nber of which is so valuable in ship-building, there runs a\\nsand ridge, which here and there abuts directly upon the\\nwater of the lagoon, and is everywhere covered with noble\\npines, affording an exhaustless su])ply of accessible build-\\ning timber. Kearward of this ridge the country, some-\\nwhat lower than the ridge, stretches out into great spaces", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "INDIAN- RIVER. 105\\nof pine barrens, which afford, however, a fine range and\\npasturage for cattle, and abound in game, such as deer\\nand wild turkey, while in winter the lagoon is alive with\\nwild duck. On the slope of this ridge, toward the lagoon,\\nby digging wells of ten or fifteen feet, an abundance of\\npure, delicious water is developed, being simply the\\nrain-water of the great pools in its rear, filtered through\\nthe sand ridge.\\nA glance at the map discloses the fact that for more\\nthan thirty miles of its upper course, the St. Johns river,\\nflowing northward, is parallel with Indian river lagoon,\\nat an average distance of not more than ten miles. At\\nseveral points, indeed, the distance is reduced to eight\\nmiles, so that a canal of that length, through ground\\npeculiarly favorable for cheap and easy construction,\\nwould give water communication by steam with Jack-\\nsonville, and in fact with Charleston. At the same time,\\nduring the late fall, winter, and early spring tides, the\\ninlet affords passage to steamers drawing from eight to\\nten feet of water, with a completely sheltered harbor im-\\nmediately within the bar. Beside fish to so marvellous\\na degree in variety, numbers, and excellence for food,\\nIndian river is likewise the resort for turtle. The vege-\\ntation and flora, by no means so luxuriant as that of\\ninter-tropical regions, are, however, largely of the same\\ndescription. The trees are covered with beautiful air-\\nplants, and other parasitic plants, which open a broad\\nfield of interesting investigation. The tree yielding gum-\\ncaoutchouc by exudation, for example, is there, although\\nnot in quantities for commercial purposes, and is an in-\\nteresting feature of the landscape from its peculiar grovrth\\nor habit of climbing and staying itself by the trunk of\\nanother tree, which it finally envelops, crushes, and de-\\n5*", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 INDIAN KIVER.\\nstroys. Several species of very closely grained, heavy,\\nliigh-colorecl woods, susceptible of tine polish, and\\nadapted to the uses of the cabinet-maker, are tliere in\\nabundance. Undoubtedly, tiie Campeachy or logwood,\\nwould thrive, if introduced upon the beach or seaward\\nshore of the lagoon, or would soon so multiply (as in\\nSanto Domingo, where it was first planted for hedges) as\\nto become a valuable product.\\nAnd so I might go on enumerating what nature has\\nplanted or supplied in forest and stream, and what man\\nmight easily do to make at least a charming health resort\\nof Indian river, but I will only add that I have myself\\nseen some remarkable evidences of the benefits which\\nI)ersons of both sexes, having diseased lungs, have re-\\nceived there benefits that proved lasting with some\\nyet more remarkable instances of persons so diseased\\nthat elsewhere they were in constant pain, who yet were\\nable to live a prolonged and comfortable life in that\\nsingularly equable temperature. I likewise passed one\\nsummer upon the lagoon, and never found the heat op-\\npressive, as it was habitually tempered by a soft, gentle\\nbreeze. The only discomfort was the mosquito, against\\nwhich, however, it was not difficult to guard by proper\\nprecautions.\\nIt is a misfortune that the real climate and general\\nsanitary advantages of Indian river are not widely known\\nto the thousands who suffer from weak lungs and bron-\\nchial affections in the New England and Middle States.\\nTnos. Jordan.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "XI.\\nFLORIDA, THE PROMISED LAND.\\nA FEW months since, we resolved to leave onr\\nnative State, and settle on the banks of Indian\\nriver. Our chosen route led us overland, and journeying\\nalong in primitive style, we enjoyed rare opportunities\\nof seeing Florida in many of her diiferent phases.\\nHer scenery is of an exceedingly variegated character in\\nsome places picturesque, even grand in others, dull and\\ndreary beyond description. Those who paint Florida\\nwholly in radiant hues and flowery terms of praise,\\ndoubtless remember only some beauteous scenes which\\nfill the memories with such fair pictures that other im-\\n23ressions are overshadowed and forgotten. One can\\nscarcely fancy a more lonely, deserted-looking region\\nthan that we often traversed, our road sometimes wind-\\ning many miles through a barren pine section, offering\\nnothing new to our curious eyes except some hundreds\\nof salamander beds, whitening the woods as far as we\\ncould see. Except at long intervals, no signs of other\\nlife, animal or human, enlivened the dull monotony of\\nsuch scenes. But sometimes we came unexpectedly\\nu pon something attractive. After journeying many miles\\ntil rough what seemed to us an endless stretch of narrov/,\\nsandy road, winding through a limitless extent of pme\\nwoods, we were prepared, by force of contrast, to enjoy", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108 FLORIDA, THE PROMISED LAND.\\ntLe magnificient view which met our delighted eyes as\\nwe crossed the Suwanee river tlie old stream so inter-\\nwoven with recollections of the song, heard so often in\\ndays gone hy. As far as we could see, the banks were\\ncrowned with majestic water-oaks, whose rich dark-\\ngreen foliage was beautifully silvered over with long gray\\nmoss drooping low to the water s edge. The slanting\\nsunbeams lent a golden glory to the tree-tops, and we\\ncrossed the strongly flowing current, gazing in silent\\nadmiration at this new loveliness displayed by ever-\\nvaried nature. During our journey thence to Newnans-\\nville we passed many thrifty-looking farms, but the town\\nitself seems fast going to decay. No new buildings\\nattested prosperity and progress, and in most cases,\\nthe original ones were sadly in need of repair. The route\\nonward to Gainsville seemed far less monotonous. We\\nfound it a thriving town, its main streets thronged by\\npedestrians and vehicles, while the coming and going of\\nthe railway trains imparted a sensation of nearness to, and\\nconnection with, the great busy, bustling, outside world.\\nIn passing from there to Orange Spring, we noticed\\nmany snug little farms, most of them new, and now\\nwe began to realize that we had entered the orange region\\nof Florida, as there was scarcely a house not surrounded\\nby orange trees in various stages of growth. Orange\\nSpring appears to have once been a place of some note.\\nThe ruins of a large hotel mutely attest its former\\npopularity as a place of resort, while its numerous com-\\nfortable dwellings, and some new stores, show there is life\\nin that region yet. Its situation is charming, crowning\\na considerable eminence, and considering its attractions,\\none does not wonder at its former fame. Its name is\\nprobably derived in part from a largo sulphur spring", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "FLORIDA, THE PROMISED LAJfD. 109\\nnear by, a favorite resort in summer, when its waters are\\naid to be delightfully cool and refreshing. This spring\\nis nearly circular, about forty or fifty feet in diameter,\\nand of a dark-green color. We spent a night in the\\nvillage, with the widow of a Baptist minister, and shall\\nnot soon forget her hospitality, nor her quaint anecdotes.\\nThe kindness extended us during our long journey con-\\nvinced us that, in spite of the cant about the cold, selfish\\nworld, there is much good- will throbbing in the great\\nheart of humanity. The difficulty usually lies in not\\nknowing just how to rouse it into action. In the vicin-\\nity of Orange Spring we noticed quite a number of\\nponds, but not the muddy, swamp-encircled ones usually\\nseen in Florida. These lay here and there, looking\\nlike mirrors framed in green. The waving pines and\\nluxuriant wire-grass grew to the water s edge. The sight\\nof the St. Johns revived legendary memories of the dusky\\nyouths and maidens who doubtless once sailed gayly over\\nits 1)eloved waters in their light canoes. But they have\\nlong since passed into the ^^Land of Shadows.\\nXot far eastward of Enterprise we passed the ruins of\\nSpring Garden, once a farm of unusual dimensions. It\\nwas saddening to ride through the deserted fields, whose\\nfences have long since disappeared, now being rapidly\\novergrown with a species of scrubby oak and pine. A\\nlake of moderate extent, and abounding in fine mullet,\\nis found within its borders.\\nThe strip of land lying immediately between the St.\\nJohns and Indian rivers is a dismal-looking region,\\nabounding in swampy flats and cabbage sloughs, and of\\nnecessity thinly inhabited. On arriving at Sand Point,\\nhowever, we found a community of intelligent thorough-\\ngoing people, one good hotel, and one excellent boarding-", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 FLORIDA, THE PROMISED LAND.\\nhouse, furnishing very acceptable accommodations to vis-\\nitors. The proposed railway from there to Lake Harnee\\nwill add considerably to the interests of this country,\\nand render Indian river far more easily and comfort-\\nably accessible to the settler, to the invalid, and to\\npleasure seekers wishing to explore its far-famed waters.\\nThis river, more correctly an arm of the sea, has been un-\\nduly extolled by its friends, and proportionably defamed\\nby its enemies. Thus many have, on arrival, been sur-\\nprised agreeably or disagreeably, according to their pre-\\nconceived ideas of its merits or demerits. Many regard\\nthis as a remote frontier country, almost inaccessible, pos-\\nsessing few or no advantages, and as scarcely habitable. It\\nseems not generally known that there are families scat-\\ntered all along from Sand Point to Fort Capron, houses\\nin many places being less than half a mile apart. Merritt s\\nIsland, too, is attracting considerable attention, and in a\\nfew years there will probably be an extensive population\\nin this section. As to the character of society, I have met\\nas well-bred ladies and gentlemen here as I ever saw in\\nany community. Many of the citizens represent some\\nof the best families of Georgia, Alabama, and other States.\\nA few objectionable characters will be found anywhere,\\nand our country doesn t claim to be entirely exceptional\\nin that respect.\\nTwo or three ministers having now located among us,\\nwe can thus once more hear the Gospel proclaimed, and\\nas settlers are moving in so rapidly, there is good reason\\nto suppose that we will, before a great while, see flour-\\nishing schools and churches established.\\nIndian ri\\\\fcr is always beautiful Avhen its waters are\\nplacid as some inland lake, or when its waves are crested\\nwith foam, and furiously lashing its rocky shore. The", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "FLORIDA, THE PROMISED LAls D. Ill\\nroar of the ocean is distinctly audible at our home, and\\nsince living here, I can form some faint conception of\\nthe emotions wliich stirred the soul of the author of the\\nMurmuring Sea. I cannot better describe the cli-\\nmate of this favored land than to use Moore s words,\\nIts air is balm, and for the most part, the atmosphere\\nis pure and refreshing to a delightful degree. On the\\nwestern shore the scenery has quite a tropical air, owing\\nto a profusion of cabbage palmettoes, resembling palms.\\nThe eastern side presents a decided contrast, the high\\nwhite and yellow bluff being crowned principally with\\nthe pine.\\nIn this semi-tropical region, the principal occupation\\nof the people is fruit-growing. The orange, of course,\\ntakes precedence over other fruits, and we believe there\\nwill be a great demand for Indian river oranges, when\\nonce their superior sweetness and flavor shall become\\ngenerally known. Many of us expect to make the citron\\nand guava profitable. And judging from the growth of\\nyoung fig-trees here, we expect to eventually ^^reap our\\nreward for the attention bestowed on them. By a lit-\\ntle judicious pains-taking we can gather fresh vegetables\\nfrom our gardens all the year round. Northern invalids\\nare beginning to test the benefits of our winter climate,\\nand in some cases with happy effect some, however,\\ndefer coming until some fell disease has sapped their\\nvital powers too strongly for them ever to be renovated\\nand so they come too late.\\nMany of the Indian river residents are enlarging\\ntheir dwellings, for the purpose of accommodating visi-\\ntors during another season. Lack of necessary means is\\nthe grand difficulty which cripples the efforts and ener-\\ngies of many who might otherwise get up elegant hotels", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 FLOItlDA, TJIE PKOMI.SED LAND.\\nami i^rivatc ])oardiiig houses. However, there are some\\nrough, uninviting looking buildings, where the travelling\\npublic will find witliin, neat, comfortable bed-rooms,\\nand good, wholesome fare. The finest oysters in the\\nworld can be had in abundance during the winter sea-\\nson fish can be had all the year round, venison is abun-\\ndant, and a great variety of fruits flourish, while there\\nare countless other objects to please the eye and gratify\\nthe taste for what is truly beautiful.\\nMany varieties of pretty shells can be found on the\\nocean beach. Sometimes one finds a sort of spiral case\\ncontaining hundreds of diminutive shells. These make\\npretty necklaces, resembling white coral. The delicate\\nflesh tint of these shells makes them beautiful, while\\ntheir frailty insures their being carefully cherished.\\nJust now, we Indian river citizens are compelled to live\\nin a style not according to our former habits of life, or\\npresent desires, but we trust the day is not far distant\\nwhen, instead of rude dwellings situated in the native\\nwilds, the visitor here will behold handsome residences\\nin the midst of grounds tastefully and lavishly adorned\\nwith all the different fruits, flowers, and evergreens which\\nthis climate is capable of producing.\\nC. B. Magruder.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "XII.\\nFORT CAPRON.\\nHAYING served about two years in South Florida\\nduring the last Seminole, or Billy Bowlegs\\nwar, I think I may safely assert that Fort Capron, op-\\nposite Indian Riyer Inlet, is the very place for a sports-\\nman s hotel. Its mild and salubrious climate, together\\nwith the abundance of fruit, game, and fish to be found\\nin its immediate yicinity, render it a place of unsur-\\npassed attractions for both sportsman and invalid.\\nThere is absolutely no endemic disease at this place.\\nIts mild, genial climate banishes all coughs, colds, and\\nrheumatisms, while a line of hills in its rear effectually\\nintercept the malarial exhalations of the fresh-water\\nswamps of the interior. The chlorinated vapors\\nbrought by the trade-winds, which are constantly\\nblowing from the sea, also exercise their powerful\\nsanitary influence. The abundance of game and fish in\\nthe vicinity of Fort Capron is truly astonishing. Dur-\\ning the prolonged period that I was stationed at that\\nfort we were never, in the proper season, without game,\\nfish, oysters, or green turtle. The fish found in the\\nvicinity are red-fins (a species of drum, commonly called\\nred bass, the rouge of the Creole French about\\nNew Orleans), red-snapper, sheepshead, cavalli, sea\\ntrout, sea-mullet, and the far-famed pompano. These", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 FOKT C APRON.\\ntwo last-mentioned fish do not take a bait. There arc\\nalso two other remarkable fish inhabiting Indian river\\nand the adjacent coast, whose scientitic naipes I am\\nnnaware of. These are called b} the natives the Jew-\\nish and the tarpum. The former sometimes at-\\ntains a weight of two or three hundred ])ounds, and\\nresembles a bass in its general contour, while the latter\\npresents more the appearance of a dace. The tar-\\npum, owing to its graceful outlines and lustrous color-\\ning, is a fish of most surpassing beauty. The scales on\\nits sides are about the size and the brilliancy of a silver\\ndollar, out of which the native females fabricate beauti-\\nful baskets. AVhen a school of these fish are disporting\\nthemselves upon the surface of the waves, as is their\\nfrequent habit, the bright reflections from their sides\\nproduce an effect not unlike that presented by the bur-\\nnished arms of a squad of soldiers at drill. This fish\\nattains a length of about five or six feet, but is not so\\nheavy as the jew-fish. The bar at Indian River Inlet is\\nan unrivalled locality for short sjieariug, for those who\\nare fond of that thrilling amusement. I have myself,\\nin a common Whitehall boat, aided in harpooning\\nfifteen or twenty in a morning. The rivers and creeks\\nemptying into Indian river are filled with black bass\\n(miscalled black trout by the natives). This species\\nof black bass reach a much greater size than any other\\nspecies of this fish I have ever met with. I have taken\\nthem weighing in the neighborhood of ten pounds, and\\nI have seen others swimming in the watei-, that seemed\\nto be almost as large again. Like the bass of the Ui)per\\nMississippi and lakes of Minnesota, and unlike the bass\\nat present inhabiting the Potomac and its tributaries, it\\nwill readly rise to spoon or fly. They are a])t to have a", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "FORT C APRON. 115\\ngrassy taste during the summei*, biit as winter ap-\\nproaches they have as fine a flavor as any other fish of\\nthe genus. The streams which they inhabit, flowing as\\nthey do through the sandy S(nl of the pine barrens,\\nwhich contains but little sediment, are almost as trans-\\nparent as the celebrated trout brooks of New England.\\nIndian river, so called, is not properly a river but\\nrather a sound or salt-water lagoon, beirig separated\\nfrom the ocean by a narrow strip of sandy land over-\\ngrown with palmettoes and mangroves. It is about one\\nhundred and fifty miles long, and ranges from several\\nmiles to forty yards in width. On the east it is fed by\\nseveral inlets from the sea, through which the tide ebbs\\nand flows freely. Several large rivers enter it from the\\nwest, the principal of v/hicli are the San Sebastian,\\nSanta Lucia, and Locha Hatchee. No country that I\\nhave ever visited alfords as great a variety of game and\\nfish as South Florida. Besides large game, such as\\nbear, deer, turkeys, etc., this region literally swarms\\nwith snipe and ducks, at least during the winter months.\\nPartridges (bob whites) are also sufficiently numerous to\\nafford sport but I have never seen a woodcock in that\\nsection. The snipe shooting on the savannahs is simply\\nsuperb. These savannahs (or natural meadows) afford\\nsufficient moisture to attract the birds, without being\\nso miry as to render the walking difficult or fatiguing,\\nas is so often the case at points further north. On one\\nof these snipe grounds of many hundred acres in ex-\\ntent, several miles in rear of Fort Capron, I used to\\nenjoy most delightful sport, seldom returning without\\na full bag.\\nI would advise sportsmen desirous of snipe shooting\\nin that section, to take pointers instead of setters, for", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 FOKT CAPKOX.\\nthe long liair of tlicse latter is likely to harbor the\\nnumerous sanguinivorous insects which there abound\\nits mild climate is also more suitable to the nature of\\nthe pointer.\\nYour correspondent Fred Beverly makes honorable\\nmention of a gallant exploit of one of liis followers whom\\nhe calls Jim. Now, if he alludes to ^^Jim Kussell,\\nof Fort Capron (and I am pretty sure he does), I am\\nhappy to state that I am well acquainted with Jim,\\nand have had many. a jolly day s sport in his company.\\nDuring a sail-boat trip to Merrit s Island, in company\\nwith Lieutenant, now General, Jeff. C. Davis, of Captain\\nJack notoriety, and several others, among whom was\\nour hero, we had occasion to take along a famous pointer\\nof mine. Old Nat by name, for the purpose of vary-\\ning our amusement by a little snipe shooting. Now,\\nalthough Old Nat s moral status was none of the best,\\nfor he would steal like a quartermaster, yet his\\nadmirable hunting qualities made him a great favorite\\nwith all. Like most of his species, he was very fond of\\nconsulting his own comfort and convenience. At the\\nfort he was accustomed to sleep in a nice shady spot on\\nmy porch, and seeing a similar locality on the boat,\\nproduced by the shadow of the main-sail, he soon\\nensconced himself therein. After getting through with\\nhis snooze, and thinking himself, no doubt, still in his\\naccustomed spot at home, he suddenly got up, and,\\nmuch to our surprise and dismay, leaped overboard. As\\nthere was a violent gale blowing at the time, the white\\ncaps running angrily, and, furtliermore, as the dog s\\nchain soon became entangled with his legs, his peril\\nbecame extreme. We luffed up promptly but in spite\\nof all our efforts the fate of the dog seemed sealed.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "FORT C APRON-. 117\\nwhen Jim, throwing off his coat, boldly plunged into\\nthe seething, surging waves. A few strokes brought\\nhim near enough to lay hold of the collar of the drown-\\ning dog, but owing to the helpless condition of the\\nlatter he could not make much progress on his return to\\nthe boat. Owing to the increased violence of the storm,\\nwe now became aware of the alarming fact that we\\nwere slowly but surely, falling to leeward, and our\\nfears now became excited for Jim s safety also. We\\nshouted to him to abandon the dog and save himself\\nbut the gallant fellow would not do it. By letting the\\nsail fall and using the oars with desperate energy, we\\nwere enabled to hold the boat in a stationary position,\\nso that Jim, swimming with one arm and aided by the\\nwaves, succeeded, after a desperate struggle, in coming\\nalongside with the dog. I soon pulled them both in,\\nand we all applauded Jim for his manly daring;\\nbut to this day Jeff swears that I pulled the dog in\\nfirst but this however, I can never bring myself to\\nagree to.\\nAsa Wall.", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "XIIL\\nFISHING AT ST. AUGUSTIOTl.\\nST. AUGUSTINE is a quaint old Spanish city, for a\\nlong time dull and quiet, but now waking up with\\nthe influx of Northern people, many of whom have built\\nstately and beautiful residences for their winter sojourn.\\nFor real enjoyment, St. Augustine far surpasses any\\nother part of Florida. You avoid the bustle of business\\nin Jacksonville, as well as its sharp frosts and hot days\\nyou are not out of the world, as at Enterprise, nor is\\nit so warm. The climate is charming a happy medium\\nnor is it so variable as at most other places in Florida.\\nFrost is almost unknown also, extreme heat. You\\nhave good hotels, your daily mail, and, though the\\nmorning papers do not reach you until the afternoon,\\nstill, you are in the world, while the facilities for\\nboating, hunting, and fishing are unsurpassed. The bay\\nis beautiful, and affords a fine opportunity for sailing.\\nWhether your party tries the Osceola, or belle of\\nthe bay, of Mr. Ivanowski (ne Sweeney), the Water\\nWitch of Captain Walton, or any of the smaller craft\\nin the harbor, you can enjoy a pleasant and comfortable\\nsail under safe pilotage. While for fishing, one has but\\nto go to the sea-wall, or the long wharf, or take a skiff\\nor a canoe and push out in the bay, and there will be\\nno want of sport. The only drawback is the universal", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "FISHING AT ST. AUGUSTII^-E. 119\\nprevalence of the catfish, which is of all sizes, from the\\ntiny youngster of three inches to the full-grown pater-\\nfamilias of two feet or more. These are of a gray color,\\nand shaped like their Northern brethren, but covered\\nwith a thick, tough slime, just as the eels of the North\\nare, and the result is, your hook, line, and fingers and\\noften clothes get covered with this sticky substance.\\nYour hook and line must be thoroughly cleansed, or no\\nother fish will touch it your hands and clothes are at\\nyour option. Another favorite fishing place is from the\\nbridge over the San Sebastian, just at the back of the\\ntown. At any or all of these places you can catch bass,\\ntrout, sheepshead, mullet, flounders, sharks, and many\\nother varieties.\\nOne of the pleasantest amusements is fishing in the\\nsurf for bass. The modus operandi of this sport is some-\\nwhat as follows\\nRemember that I am giving the custom of the coun-\\ntry, and shall not be surprised if the scientific bass-fishers,\\nwho rejoice in forty-dollar reels and sixty-dollar rods with\\nagate-mounted tips and rings, are somewhat disgusted.\\nThe line ordinarily used is nearly as thick as a cod-line,\\nand about 50 yards long. A sinker, weighing about a\\nhalf or three-quarters of a pound with a hole through\\nit is strung on the line, and is kept there by a large\\nknot on its end. Below this knot, and attached to the\\nline proper by a somewhat smaller cord, is the hook a\\ncod-hook being generally used, or one a little smaller.\\nThe fisherman is usually clad in an old flannel shirt,\\nwoollen trousers, and old, loose boots with a broad-leaved\\nstraw or felt hat. The bait used is a string of mullet,\\nprocured at the early market (price five cents), Avhich\\nis cut into chunks about an inch square. Thus equipped,", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 FISHING AT ST, AUGUSTINE.\\nand with the end of the line tied around the waist, or to\\nhis wrist to prevent its escape as it flies out, and neatly\\ncoiled in his left hand to run off easily, and with a yard\\nor two above the sinker hanging from his riglit hand,\\nthe fisherman wades into the surf, about waist deep, and\\nswinging the sinker around his head, launches it out as\\nfar as he can, and then draws it gradually in, so as to\\nkeep the bait moving. When he feels a bite he gives a\\njerk, to hook the fish, and, if successful, he puts the\\nline over his shoulder, and starts for the beach, going as\\nfast as he can for if he lets the line slack, he will proba-\\nbly lose his fish. On emerging from the water he runs out\\non the beach and drags the fish upon the sand, where he\\nsecures it and, re-baiting his hook, starts for another\\nthrow. The hook, or hooks sometimes two or more are\\nused are put on a smaller piece of line, on account of\\nthe abundance of small sharks, which literary swarm in\\nthe breakers, where the bass and other fish most do con-\\ngregate, and are very apt to seize the bait and break the\\nline, carrying off sinker and all, if it breaks above it.\\nThe sinker is perforated so that the bite can easily be\\nfelt, the line readily slipping through it. The surf is\\nabout fifty yards from tlie edge of the beach, there being\\na line of shoal about that distance, over wliich the waves\\nbreak. Between this and the shore the water is shallow;\\nabout thigh-deep at low tide, and the fisherman wades out\\nto the bank. As the tide rises he is obliged to come in,\\nthe surf breaking all the way to the shore when the water\\nis two or three feet deep on the bar. It is not a very\\ncomfortable feeling to turn when on the shoal, and see a\\nshark or two swimming up and down between you and\\nthe shore especially if you have a bite and are making\\nfor the beach. But they are very shy, and quickly get", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "FISHING AT ST. AUGUSTIN-E. 121\\nout of the way. I never heard of any one being bitten.\\nThey are usually about three or four feet long, and are\\noften caught. Still they are unpleasant neighbors. I\\nremember one day, before a storm, when the water was\\ndark and I could not see, while standing about waist-deep\\nin this middle ground, and fishing busily, feeling a\\nsudden sharp nip on the ankle. I sprang clear of the\\nwater, for I thought it was a shark. But it was only a\\nlarge sea-crab, which pinches powerfully. Fortunately,\\nI had on very heavy pantaloons, so no damage was done\\nbut the shock was tremendous, for sharks are very\\nbold in dark water.\\nThere are many large sharks and sword or saw-fish\\nin the bay, and during the summer they are caught for\\nthe oil contained in their livers. From ten to twenty\\nfish is about a fair afternoon s catch during the season\\nso they say.\\nSpeaking of the bass-fishing in the surf reminds me\\nof a somewhat ludicrous incident which is said to have\\noccurred to one of our distinguished generals, just after\\nthe war. It seems a party were fishing at Brazos, in\\nthe Gulf, somewhat in the manner I have just described,\\nand the General feeling a bite, started with the line over\\nhis shoulder in orthodox style for the beach, and ran\\nout hauling his line. In course of time the fish was\\ndrawn out, and to the amazement of the General and\\nthe amusement of the rest of the party, proved to be only\\nabout six inches long. It is needless to say that the\\nGeneral s champagne suffered that evening, but the story\\nleaked out nevertheless. So much for the fish.\\nQuail are plenty in the neighborhood of St. Augus-\\ntine, and within a few miles deer and wild turkey are\\nabundant while occasionally one gets a chance for a\\n6", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122 FISHING AT ST. AUGUSTINE.\\nscrimmage with a bear or panther. As to wild fowl,\\ntheir name is legion shore birds of all kinds, ducks,\\ngeese, herons, et id omne gejms, can be had with a rea-\\nsonable degree of trouble. Enough sport can be found\\nin the neighborhood of St. Augustine to reward the\\nmost ardent sportsman and I know of no place this\\nside of Humboldt Bay, in California, where so many\\nfacilities for hunting and fishing are oifered, or where the\\nvariety of game, fish, flesh, and fowl, is so great, or where a\\nfew weeks may be more agreeably passed by the sportsman.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "XIV.\\nBASS FISHING ON SPRUCE CREEK.\\nHEARING great stories of the size of the black bass,\\nor trout, as they are called by the Floridians, in\\nSpruce creek, a tributary of tlie Halifax river, I left\\nNew Smyrna with a boat and guide on the 23d of April,\\nat 9 A. M., to test the truth of these fish stories. We\\nsailed down the Hillsboro with a westerly breeze to the\\ninlet, called Mosquito from the abundance of that\\nfamiliar insect, and passing through a narrow gut\\nbetween two sand-bars, we saw a large turtle of the\\nloggerhead kind, which having been crippled by the\\nattack of a shark which had bitten off half of one hind\\nflipper, had crawled upon the sand. It weighed proba-\\nbly one hundred pounds, and could have easily been\\ncaptured, but we had no use for it at the time. Cross-\\ning the inlet, we laid our course up the Halifax, into\\nwhich, near its mouth. Spruce creek flows. At this\\nplace it is wide and shallow, winding through extensive\\nmarshes and mangrove islands, and much encumbered\\nby oyster banks, many of which stretch across the\\nstream. These oysters are large and well flavored, and\\nso abundant that hundreds of vessels could be loaded\\nwith them. Sailed up the creek for two miles, meeting\\nonly one boat, which was shark fishing. Then we\\nstopped to get bait, and Lewis, my guide, with a few\\ncasts of his net, procured for me a dozen mullet, the", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124 BASS FISHING ON SPRUCE CREEK.\\nusual bait for all fishes iu this rcgiou. Sailed on four\\nmiles further, when the Ijanks l)egan to be higher, and\\nwooded, and tlie water grew fresli, when I put out a\\ntrolling line with mullet bait, and caught a red fish or\\nchannoi bass of five pounds, and two salt-water trout of\\ntwo pounds each {Corvina ocellata and Otolitus Caroli-\\niicnsis). Here on the east side of the creek we found a\\nblull of coquina rock, some fifty feet high, covered with\\nforest trees, and with its sides washed by water into\\ncurious forms. The river at its base is very deep, and is\\nsaid to contain large fish, especially snappers and\\ngroupers. About a mile above this bluff, having put\\nout a second line with a spoon, I took Avith it my first\\nblack bass it was of about two pounds Aveight, and made\\nthe leaps characteristic of the species. Next I got a red-\\nfish of about the same size. I observe these fish caught\\nin fresh water are higher colored than those of salt\\nwater, the back being of a rich dark brown, and the\\nsides of bright copper color. The salt-water trout taken\\nhere are also of deeper colors, with larger spots than\\nthose taken in the salt water. Three miles further, rain\\ncoming on, we stopped and camped, about 4 p. M., at a\\nbluff on the Avest side, Avhere the King s road, one hun-\\ndred years ago, ran from St. Augustine down the coast.\\nAfter the shoAver aa C roAved up the ri\\\\-er a mile, and got\\nhalf a dozen more black bass, and lost several by their\\nhabit of shaking out the hook as they leap. I got two\\ndogfish {Amia calva), a AATstern acquaintance, and not a\\nA alued one, as this fish, though interesting to naturalists\\nfrom being the only representative of an old Avorld\\nfamily, is Avorthless as food, and makes himself so odious\\nby cutting lines and breaking hooks, that the angler\\nregrets that it should have survived its kindred.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "BASS FISHING OK SPRUCE CREEK. 125\\nWe swung our hammocks between two trees by the\\nfire, and after a supper of bass, with bread and coffee,\\nshould have slept sweetly but for a band of hungry\\nmosquitoes which, lighted by the moonbeams, found us\\nout and sung in our ears their detestable song. Next\\nmorning we started at sunrise, and trolled up the creek\\nwith hand line and rod and reel, both having spoons\\nattached. On the hand line Buel s propeller, in white\\nmetal and on the reel line two brass fliers revolving\\nround a brass wire the latter seemed to be the favorite,\\nand took more and larger fish. Got back to camp at\\n8 A. M., with twenty-five black bass and four red-fish.\\nThe former were from one to three pounds weight, and\\nthe latter of about the same size we lost three bass by\\nshaking loose the hook. As the weather looked threat-\\nening, we broke camp and returned down the river, tak-\\ning four more bass by the way. We got entangled\\namong the oyster banks at low tide, and lost an hour,\\nthe rain falling heavily. When we got out of these shal-\\nlows, we set our sail to the breeze, and went down the\\nriver flying, almost running over a large alligator which\\nlay on the mud, as we rounded a point. As we emerged\\ninto the broad Halifax, we saw two objects on the further\\nbank Avhich looked, at the distance of half a mile, like\\nbears, but being quite near a house, Lewis thought they\\nmust be black hogs feeding along the beach, though they\\nlooked too large for hogs of this region. We learned\\nafterward that bears had repeatedly been seen on this\\nvery spot, and had carried off hogs from the man who\\nlived there. So that if we had sailed down upon them,\\nmy guide having his rifle and hound in the boat, might\\nprobably have killed one or both.\\nHaving caught these black bass Grystes salmoides) in", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126 BASS FISniXG ON- SPRUCE CREEK.\\nthree rivers in Florida, the St. John, the Tomoka, and\\nSpruce creek, I find them to be of abont the average\\nsize of the same species in tlie western waters, viz., from\\ntwo to three pounds and although they may grow\\nlarger here than in the western lakes and rivers, yet I\\nam inclined to think that those weighing from fifteen to\\ntwenty pounds, said to have been taken here, were esti-\\nmated rather than weighed.\\nS. C. Clarke.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "XV.\\nHUNTING THE PANTHER.\\nTO the average Florida tourist, who sails luxuriously\\nup the St. John s, or stays idling at the hotel, the\\nidea that there are predatory animals in the State rarely\\noccurs. It is only to the camper-out that the privilege\\nof making their acquaintance is vouchsafed. If he\\ncamp in a place sufficiently remote from civilization he\\nwill probably be favored with a sight at the animal men-\\ntioned above. It is more than likely that he will be\\nfavored with its moaning cry, or see its signs about his\\ncamp. The panther is so rarely seen, however, that it\\nis regarded as mythical by many men professing to be\\nhunters. It has been my rare good fortune to meet\\nwith, and be in at the death of one, and soon after the\\ndemise of several others. There is a vast difference\\nexisting between this panther, tiger, or puma, and the\\nwild-cat, or l3Tix. The latter animal, and another, the\\ncatamount, occur in Florida, but are not half the size of\\nthe panther. The latter has been found measuring nine\\nfeet from tip to tip. I have seen one measuring eight\\nfeet four inches, and have the skin of one measuring\\neight feet good. In color, the panther is a yellowish-\\nbrown, darker on the baok, growing to a yellowish-\\nwhite on the belly. It has great strength, and no pack\\nof dogs can successfully attack one. It frequents the", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128 HUNTIN-Q THE PANTHER.\\nswamps and hammocks during the day, and seeks its\\nprey hy night. Old liunters say it remains concealed in\\nthe large trees, ready to drop upon unwary travellers.\\nIts tracks may be frequently seen in the woods back of\\nIndian river, or interior. I have been told that an\\nanimal larger than this, spotted and striped in fact,\\nthe regular tiger was seen near New Smyrna, but this\\nis the only related instance, and not likely to prove\\ncorrect. This animal is more generally known by the\\nname of tiger than any other, and as such is spoken of\\nwith dread by the crackers. The only panther I\\never had a hand in killing was a goodly sized one near\\nHope Sound. I was camped at St. Sebastian creek, and\\nhaving with me the prince of boatmen, Jim R, lacked\\nnot in either fish or game. But duck and fish were not\\nenough to satisfy, even in the abundance provided there\\nby a lavish nature, and I cast about for some new\\ndiversion.\\nIt was at this period that Jim suggested we should\\ngo down the river and secure the skeleton of a manatee\\nwe had discovered a month previous. It was just the\\nthing, and we were soon sailing down river with a fair\\nwind. It was about fifty miles, and we camped that\\nnight a dozen miles from our destination. AVhen we\\nawoke next morning we discovered that our whole stock\\nof pork was missing. Further search revealed the\\ntracks of a panther, and, connecting the circumstances,\\nwe were at no loss to account for the absence of the\\npork. The most aggravating circumstance was, tliat\\nthe theft had been committed while we had a dog in the\\ncamp, whose sole purpose was^ to guard our })roperty. It\\nwas useless to follow up the trail, as it was soon lost, and\\nwe left camp and entered the Narrows, beneath the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "HUiq TI2q G THE PANTHER. 129\\nshade of India rubber and palm. The manatee we\\nwere in search of had been discovered in a decomposed\\nstate, so, as it was securely lodged in a bend of the\\nchannel, we had left it to the tender mercies of a\\ncoroner s jury of vultures, intending to return for it\\nlater. ]N ow we had returned, and making our boat fast\\nover the spot where we supposed the ivory lay, we pro-\\nceeded to business. As the only method of getting it\\nwas by diving, and the water swarmed with the ugliest\\nalligators ever seen by mortal man, there was no rivalry\\nbetween Jim and myself in fact, Jim desired to give\\nme precedence he was perfectly willing I should take\\nthe lead in the way of diving, and developed a new\\nfeature in his disposition. Around our camp fire he\\nalways manifested a disposition to secure a front seat\\nwhen the pork and flapjacks came along, but now a\\nchange had come over him, and my impetuous Jim\\nseemed inclined to resign the role of leader, and be\\ncontent with that of follower. But I was not at all\\ndesirous of securing glory at his expense, and so he\\nwent overboard first and I followed. The water was\\nabout neck deep, and rather cold. Our mode of opera-\\ntion was to wade about, feeling the mud beneath us with\\nour feet for the ivory. Occasionally we would assume\\nthe position of ducks feeding in shallow water, groping\\nabout the mud with our hands. With our heads under\\nwater we might have reminded a disinterested spectator\\nthough there was not another white man in a radius\\nof a dozen miles of the ostrich who thought so long as\\nhis head was covered his extremities were secure. But\\nwe didn t think so, for we were constantly thinking of\\nour unprotected parts, and we often wondered whether", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "130 HUKTINQ TUB PANTHER.\\nthe saying that an alligator wouldn t bite a white man\\nwere true.\\nIt was upon coming up from such a position as I\\nliave described tliat I heard a low growl from our dog, a\\nhuge old mastiff, whom we had left aboard the boat.\\nFollowing the direction of his fixed and eager gaze, I\\nsaw, as soon as the water had cleared from my eyes, a\\nhuge, cat-like animal stealthily moving among tlie man-\\ngroves on shore. I remember getting a glimpse of a\\nburning pair of eyes, and then I imitated the ostrich\\nbefore alluded to, and stuck my head under water and\\nstarted for the boat. Jim had seen the animal at about\\nthe same time, and although I started first for the boat,\\nhe had reached it first, being much nearer.\\nSnatching my double-barrelled breech-loader, and\\nslipping in a couple of buckshot cartridges, he jumped\\ninto his breeches and then jumped ashore, and\\nwas far on the trail of panther and dog before I had\\nequipped myself for the race. Putting on pants and\\nmoccasins, I took a large bowie knife, the only available\\nweapon, and insanely followed on the trail. It was long\\nand circuitous, but I finally found them Jim and the\\ndog a mile or so from the boat. I knew from the\\nsilence of the dog, some time before I reached them,\\nthat the panther was treed, and did not need Jim s\\ninformation to that effect. It was in a small hammock\\nof an acre or so that tliey had brought him to bay, and\\nafter closely reconnoitring we concluded he would be\\nlikely to stay till dark, and that it would be best for\\none of us to return and get some more ammunition and\\nthe rest of our clotlies. Accordingly, I remained guard-\\ning the hammock until Jim returned with the necessary\\narticles. Taking courage, from a small stock we had", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "HtJKTIN-G THE PAKTHER. 131\\nby us in a small bottle, we proceeded to make a\\nthorough and systematic search for the panther.\\nThe hammock was in the pine woods, and was just\\nsnch a one as is common in the Florida pine barrens a\\ncollection of oaks and other deciduous trees, with an\\nabundance of vines and undergrowth.\\nWe proceeded but slowly, for neither of us cared to\\nmeet the animal without an introduction, and it was\\nlate in the afternoon when we approached the centre of\\nthe clump toward which we had been steadily working.\\nWe had held the dog back all this time, for fear he would\\ncause the beast to take refuge in another hammock, but\\nbut no sooner had we reached this central clumj^ of old\\noaks and tangled briers, than he dashed madly forward\\nand wildly clawed at the bark of a huge old oak some\\nforty yards away. A panther in a tree is a trouble-\\nsome thing to see, especially after the sun has dipped\\nbelow the horizon and again, the color of a panther so\\nassimilates with that of the rough brown bark that it\\ntakes a sharp eye to detect one, even when you know\\nhe is there.\\nGuided by Jim s finger, I saw two fiery eyes gleaming\\nfrom over a large limb, close to the trunk of the tree.\\nUgh how they pierced me. They seemed to burn me\\nthrough and througli. Following down I soon saw the\\nanimal s tail, nervously working from side to side. His\\nbody was hidden behind the tree.\\nThere said Jim, *^you take the gun and shoot\\njust below his eyes. If you do that you ll likely hit him\\nin the throat.\\nNo, Jim, I think you can do this business best\\nyou see I am not not much in the panther line, anyhow.\\nNo, you be hanged you can shoot better n I can", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 HUNTING THE PANTHER.\\nwith that gun, and besides, you can hit him as he jumps,\\nfor you re good on the wing, you know. I ll stand ready\\nto stick liini when he falls, old boy, an Til fix him if\\nyou don t.\\nSo saying, he handed me the gun and took the bowie.\\nI always had thought I should like to kill a panther, and\\nhad often pictured to myself a panther in my clutches,\\nwith my left hand ]u)ld of his tongue and my right in tlic\\nact of plunging a knife into his tliroat. But now the\\nsupreme moment had arrived I was actually shaking with\\nfear, or something akin, and refusing the high honor of\\nkilling one. But 1 knew that, as Jim had said, it was\\nbest that I should start the panther up nnd leave to him\\nthe coup de grace. Settling myself to this, I tried, by a\\ndesperate effort, to quiet my nerves. Securing a posi-\\ntion behind the trunk of a palmetto, I rested the gun\\nagainst it and sighted just below tliose blazing orbs. It\\nwas an eventful moment. It was to fire or not to fire\\nto leave the panther unprovoked, or arouse a terrible\\ndestructive power that nothing but death would allay.\\nMy hand yet trembled, and I let tlie barrels fall but,\\nwith a powerful effort, I held the sight upon the panther s\\nthroat again and fired. With the report came a howl of\\nanfj^uish and a rushins^ noise as thehus^e animal launclied\\nhimself into the air. There were no shaking limbs now,\\nbut with nerves and muscles tense, I held my gun upon\\nhim, and stopped him midway his leap, as it were. I\\nhave shot birds when their flight was so swift tiiat their\\nwings seemed a misty film, but never, it seemed to me,\\nhad I such speed and velocity to overcome before.\\nHe* fell nearly at my feet, and the dog was upon liim\\nere he had hardly touched the ground. The growling,\\nsnarling, and snapping that ensued was horrible beyond", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "HUNTING THE PAKTHER. 133\\ndescription, but it struck no terror to the heart of my\\nguide, for, watcliing his opj^ortunity, he rushed in and\\nplunged the long bowie almost to the hilt in the pan-\\nther s side. Groaning and gasping for breath, the ani-\\nmal tottered, fell upon his side and yielded at last, over-\\ncome by superior numbers. We skinned him that night\\nby the light of a fire of light wood. The skull, with two\\nbroken fangs, a paw and the claws, are in my cabinet\\nnow, and they are ready to vouch for this story, even as\\nthe man was willing to show the pen he wrote the letter\\nwith. My first shot had broken two of his fangs, and the\\nsecond had broken a fore-leg, besides wounding him\\ninternally.\\nThe panther is a cowardly animal, and will not attack\\nman. This refers to the Southern panther but in-\\nstances are well authenticated where it has followed\\nwomen and children, evidently with murder in its heart.\\nIndeed, I remember now an incident related by a settler,\\nof a negro child being devoured by a panther, but cannot\\nrecall the locality of the occurrence. They are fond of\\nhogs, however, and will often risk considerable to cap-\\nture a good porker a rarity, by the way, in Florida.\\nThe day before my arrival at the Kissimmee river a\\npanther came up to a settler s cabin in broad daylight,\\nand carried of, a full-grown sow, the mother of a large\\nfamily, before the eyes of the settler s wife and children.\\nThe next day dogs were gathered, and a hunt instituted\\nthat resulted in the death of the panther, a huge eight-\\nfooter.\\nNear Fort Drum, in the interior of Florida, panthers\\nhave been very troublesome of late years, and are often\\nkilled there. That they will kill dogs, I have the testi-\\nmony of an old guide and hunter, who described to me", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134 HUNTING THE PANTHER.\\nan accident happening to liis dog upon the very place\\nwhere we then camped. He said lie was camped there,\\nhad his mosquito bar pitched, and had gone to sleep.\\nSomething, lie knew not what, awoke him, just in time to\\nsee a dark body leap over his bar and pounce upon the\\ndog. There was a short struggle, and then the worthy\\nguide was minus a good dog. He didn t take part in\\nthe fight, but was a quiet, if not disinterested, spectator.\\nSometimes they will manifest the utmost contempt\\nfor man, and will seem to take delight in keeping him in\\nsuspense. An old live-oaker told me that he came\\nupon two panthers in a narrow trail, and that they\\nwalked ahead of him to the shore of the river, where\\none of them sat down and refused to move. Upon his\\ncompanion throwing a chunk of light wood, at it, it\\nmerely started a little, and snarled in a Avay that con-\\nvinced the two live-oakers that it wasn t goin to stan\\nno nonsense. They left him there. Another live-oaker,\\na chopper, was engaged in squaring a fallen tree, when a\\nfull-grown panther came up and quietly carried away his\\ndinner, which lay upon the other end of the log. This\\nact, though very gracefully and daintily done,^o alarmed\\nthe man that he dropped his axe and ran into camp, a\\nmile or more. But the panther devoured his dinner.\\nFred Beverly.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "XVI.\\nTHE ENVIEONS OF TALLAHASSEE.\\nrriHE City of Tallahassee, the capital of the State\\nJL of Florida, is situated iu Leon county, about thirty\\nmiles north of the Gulf of Mexico, and half-way between\\nthe eastern and western limits of the State. Tallahassee\\nis an Indian word, and signifies old fields. The\\npresent site of the city was perhaps long ago the corn-\\nfields of the savages. It is situated upon the broad, flat\\ntop of a hill, and is about a mile in length, by three-\\neighths m breadth. Its people are hospitable, refined,\\npolite, and very sociable and the stranger visiting there\\nwill receive more attention than at any other city in the\\nSouth. It is a very paradise for bachelors, on account\\nof the number, the beauty, and the charming manners\\nof the ladies. The climate is very pleasant, and the\\nnumber of soft, warm Indian summer days during\\nthe winter, is very great and, though a fire is necessary\\nin the evenings, yet, during the day the visitor can re-\\nmain almost entirely in the open air with comfort and\\npleasure.\\nTo the sportsman, the prospect is admirable. In\\nevery direction, for miles from the town, are wide fields,\\nwhich swarm with quail. A fair day s shooting allow-\\nmg the sportsman to take his breakfast at a reasonable\\nhour, and start leisurely, returning for supper at dark", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136 THE EXYIROXS OF TALLAHASSEE.\\nfor a good sliot, and with a good dog, is not less than\\nfrom sixty to one hundred and forty birds. The coveys\\nare all large, and often two or more are found in one\\nliold. In tlie noighhorliood of the town are many small\\nlakes, in which duck and other wild fowl are plentiful,\\nwhile at Lakes Lafayette and Jackson, six miles distant,\\nand some miles in extent, there is good fishing as well\\nas good shooting. About two miles from town, and\\non a high hill, which lies between several small lakes, is\\na favorite resort for duck-shooters as the birds are\\ncontinually passing and repassing from lake to lake.\\nThere is abundance of accommodation in the city, and\\ntlie young gentlemen take pleasure in giving the sports-\\nman all necessary information and assistance. Horses\\nand vehicles are readily obtained. Deer are often killed\\nwithin a few miles of the town, as well as wild turkeys.\\nSt. Mark s, but an hour s ride from the city by rail,\\nis on the Gulf and the fishing and wild fowl shooting\\nis of the best Boats and assistants are easily had.\\nOne of the pleasantest trips, is a visit to the famous\\nWakulla Spring which lies about sixteen miles from\\nTallahassee, almost due south and out of which flows\\nthe Wakulla river, a stream a hundred feet wide, and\\nthree feet deep, with a two-mile current where it leaves\\nthe spring. The route, with the exception of a few\\nmiles near Tallahassee, is through the pine woods, which\\nextend to the very edge of the spring though, as the\\nground begins to fall, there is a considerable intermixture\\nof otlicr varieties of timber, and a heavy undergrowth.\\nThe AVakulla Spring is about fifty yards long, by seventy-\\nfive broad, and is famous for the transparency of its\\nwaters. Floating in a boat on its surface, one seems\\nsuspended in mid air and, when the day is perfectly", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE ENVIROITS OF TALLAHASSEE. 137\\ncalm, the water smooth and the sun bright, the ilhision\\nis perfect. The ordinary depth of the spring is eighty-\\nfive feet, and objects on its bottom can be seen ahnost\\nas plainly as if held in the hand. Visitors usually take\\nwith them small, round, bright pieces of tin, which\\nappear like tiny mirrors lying on the bottom, which is\\nsmooth and covered with a fine white sand. On the\\nwestern side is a broad ledge or cliff of rock, the top\\nof which is sixty-five feet below the surface. At the\\nedge of this cliif the water is black, and I found bottom\\nat a little over one hundred and twenty-five feet. Out\\nof this Gulf the stream seems to gush, and one can see\\nthe fish floating over in front of it, steadily maintaining\\ntheir position though the somewhat quick motion of\\nthe fins and tail show the resistance they are obliged to\\novercome.\\nThe water is impregnated with limestone, and is icy\\ncold. One or two persons who have experimented in\\nswimming in this spring, after a few seconds immersion,\\nbecame so benumbed as to require assistance to get back\\ninto the boat. The sides of the spring are very steep\\nbeing almost perpendicular for some distance below the\\nsurface. The river leading from the spring is full of\\ngrass, and among this lie the fish. Fishing with a line is\\nout of the question but many are caught with a gig.\\nThere is a legend connected with the spring, which\\ngoes on to. say that many years ago, long before the white\\nman trod the shores of America, this spring was a little\\nfountain, and was the favorite resort of a pair of masto-\\ndons. One day while standing at the spring, cooling\\nthemselves by throwing over their backs trunkfuls\\nof the icy water, the ground suddenly gave way beneath\\ntheir feet\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and the ill-fated pair found themselves swim", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "138 THE EI^VIRONS OF TALLAHASSEE.\\nming in a lake of ice-cold water. Terrifically they\\ntrumpeted, and frantically^ they strove to clamber\\nout upon the hank but the steep sides afforded no\\nfoot-hold until benumbed and overcome with the cold,\\nand feebly struggling, they sank, with their trunks lov-\\ningly entwined, to rise no more. As my fair informant\\nremarked lovingly they had spent their lives together,\\nand in death they were not divided. The bones of the\\nill-fated pair remained long at the bottom of the spring\\na memento of their fidelity and their fate. Some\\nyears ago, some enterprising individuals succeeded in\\ngetting out their skeletons, which were large and per-\\nfect, and shipped them to Xew York. The vessel was\\nwrecked during the voyage and they were lost.*\\nThe country around Tallahassee is attractive and\\nbeautifully undulating. There are many fine views, and\\npleasant drives in almost any direction. All the varieties\\nof forest vegetation peculiar to the country are abun-\\ndant. The superb magnolia, with its glossy deep-green\\nleaves and large cream-white flowers, the bay-tree, the\\nlive-oak, so famed for ship timber, the scarlet oak, the\\nsweet gum, the sycamore, the long-leaved pine, the ca-\\ntalpa, the hickory, the beech, the wild plum and crab-\\napple, of size almost incredible until seen the dogwood,\\nwhose large white flowers, and berries of vivid scarlet,\\nfar exceed in size those of its northern compeer grape,\\nand other vines of every variety and size the yellow\\njessamine, which climbs the trees and overspreads their\\ntops with its clusters, and hangs in graceful festoons\\nfrom every branch, in a wealth of floral profusion which\\nClias. Lanman, Esq., in his Wilds of America, says that\\ntlie boues referred to were sent to Philadelphia by Geo. S. King,\\nof Florida, and deposited in the museum there. Ed.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE ENYIROXS OF TALLAHASSEE. 139\\nillumines its surroundings, and covers its forest sup-\\nporters with a crown of glory. Along the fences and\\nhedges the Cherokee rose I may tell you its legend\\nsome day chambers in wild luxuriance, its fair snow-\\nwhite blossoms shining like stars in the dusk of the\\neyening, as you ride along. The oleander, the Cape jes-\\nsamine and the crepe-myrtle, puny shrubs and hot-house\\nplants at the Korth, here are trees, that grow to the\\nheight of twenty feet. The camellia, too, reaches the\\nheight of ten feet or more, and living in the open air,\\nblossoms wij:h a luxuriance unknown to its sisters of the\\nnorthern conservatory.\\nBut why say more. The lover of the rod and gun\\nkeenly appreciates all of nature s loveliness and where\\nis the beauty and delicacy of God s handiwork more\\nmanifest than in the Land of Flowers\\nAug. R. Egbert.", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "XVII.\\nPRIVATE DOUGHERTY AND THE BASS.\\nI CHEERFULLY contribute at this opportune season\\nthe following data, showing, first where big bass\\nhave been caught by me, and secondly, why I am sure\\nthey can be caught again.\\nFirst Every steamboat captain who goes up the St.\\nJohns river, Florida, will be able to point out where old\\nFort Butler was situated, some fifteen miles above Lake\\nGeorge, and on the south side of the river. About five\\nmiles above this spot, and on the south side of the river,\\nanotlier small river will be found emptying into it,\\nbetween marked embankments, having a wild orange\\ngrove on the one side and on the other small trees and\\nbushes. Tliis river was called the Little AVeekiwa when\\nI fished in it its mouth is quite open and prominent,\\nand I think about eight rods across its waters are clear\\nand cool, and pass out into the St. Johns over a smooth\\naud shelly bottom. Its depth is some ten feet or more,\\nand its western bank good for camping, and landing\\nheavy fish with pole and line. Fish directly across its\\nmouth, and if you hit the proper time, I will warrant\\nyou fish tliat will make your arms ache to handle.\\nSecond AVhy I am sure they can be caught now. The\\nreader will at once see from my description of the place\\nthat here at the mouth of this fine river must be a mag-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "PRIVATE DOUGHERTY AI^D THE BASS. 141\\nnificent place for the big bass of the great St. Johns,\\nsome four hundred miles in length, in places miles broad,\\ndeep, abounding in small fish, lily pads, etc., to congre-\\ngate annually for spawning and other purposes. But\\nthe proof of good fishing lies not in appearances always,\\nfor these are often very deceptive, as the fisherman well\\nknows. No better proof lies in the actual trials made\\nhere by myself and one other Private Dougherty, of\\nK company, second United States dragoons. He was\\nthe Peter of his company, and fished for over sixty\\nmen and when I think of these times and recall the\\nfacts, it almost makes my now old gray hairs stand on\\nend. This may be a weakness, tis true, but yet the tales\\nlose none of their interest with me. I trust younger\\nsportsmen will at least admire my veneration. If not, I\\nam but the mirror of their fate, and true to life.\\nAnd now to my story, which is short, sweet, true,\\nand very conclusive. With a slight preface, so as to\\nreveal the scene behind the curtains, I will say, that in\\n1838, during the Florida war, I doffed the ever-memor-\\nable gray and bullet-buttoned coat, for the more\\nenvied long-tailed blue. I was at once ushered into ser-\\nvice by being stationed that fall, winter, and spring at the\\nabove-named post then two days time from any other\\ncivilized place, steamboat time at that, and as for com-\\nmon time, in which I had been drilled, wdiy, we had\\nno logarithmic tables there to calculate it. Suffice it we\\nwere seventy strong right in the heart of Florida, and\\nabout ten days travel from all signs of civilization. I\\nlanded here by walking the plank from a small steam-\\nboat, thence into the pine barren. Glorious, indeed\\nStory your story, anon\\nAVell, one morning I went to inspect the company s", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "142 PRIVATE DOUGHERTY A]S D THE BASS.\\nmess and rations, wlicn to my astonislimcnt I fonnd the\\nsides of the mess room all covered over with bass split\\ndown on the back, and as large as codfish, besides the\\nmess tables for sixty men were smoking with hot fish.\\nWhat I thonght I, am I on the coast of Newfoundland,\\namong the cod fisheries of New England, or am I in\\nFlorida I will inquire, perha])S 1 am in a dream.\\nISergeant, said I, you seem to liave plenty of fish\\nhere where did you get them He replied Dough-\\nerty is a fisherman, and he goes up the river every few\\ndays and catches what fish the men can eat. Tell\\nhim I wish to see him. Yes, Lieutenant, replied\\nthe sergeant, touching his cap. (Enter Dougherty)\\nDougherty, where do you catch all these fish, and how\\ndo you do it? ^I catch them, said he, up the\\nriver, with a line and hook I troll for them. I first\\nuse a piece of white fat i)ork rind, cut thin, for a bait,\\nand after this I use a white strip cut out of the belly of\\nthe fish, and about three inches long these last longer\\nand save the 2:)ork, and arc just as good, if not better, I\\nthink. This was good news, as well as economy in\\npork rind. I decided to try them. The next day\\nDougherty and myself, armed with hook and line only\\nsixty feet long, and a i)iece of pork rind sliced from the\\npork barrel, started off for the fishing grounds. Soon\\nafter passing a long line of lily pads on the right, we\\ncame to the mouth of the river above described, and took\\nu]) a ])lace in the centre of it. Xow, hold on, said I,\\nwhile I cut off a piece of this rind and bait my hook.\\nThis done, by hooking it at one end so it would jilay in\\nthe water, A ow, said I, you row across, and away\\nwent my line by a cast at the same time, no sooner strik-\\ning the water than splash I up you go about two feet", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "PEIVATE DOUGHERTY AKD THE BASS. 143\\ninto the air, white belly, tail, fins, and all a-fl3ing down\\nyou come, shaking and dangling Avith a twitcli. Pull\\nhim in, said Priyate Dougherty, for I was a novice\\nnow, and liad never caught a fish before by trolling. I\\nobeyed his orders and soon had a big bass in the boat.\\nThe bait yet good, away I cast it again. JSTo sooner\\ndone than up she goes again and into the boat I haul\\nhim a monster bass, the boat meeting him full half-\\nway and soon over it goes again, and in comes another,\\nand still over again, and still in another, and so on and\\nso forth to the end of the chapter, with no change ex-\\ncept to use the piece of belly for bait when my other was\\nall gone. This sport continued for less than two hours,\\nwhen finding my boat nearly loaded down, and my little\\nfingers well cut and sore by hauling them in, I concluded\\nto stop at the round number of fifty, and returned to the\\npost. When I weighed my fish, or at least one of the\\nsmallest and largest, the smallest weighed four and one-\\nhalf pounds and the largest fourteen and one-half\\npounds, giving a fair average of ten pounds, or five hun-\\ndred pounds in all. This looks like large bass in the\\nSt. Johns river.\\nI was not then particularly fond of fishing, and never\\nwent to the place again, but Dougherty told me that he\\ncontinued to catch them in this way for some time\\nafterward, and until the weather got warmer, when\\nthey ceased biting there and went out into the main\\nriver, where he caught them, though much less abun-\\ndantly.\\nI visited the place, I think about the 10th of March,\\nwhen the oranges were yellow and ripe, and lying on the\\nground. Here, in my opinion, is the spot for Florida\\nsportsmen. I think the bass spawn here annually, and", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144 PRIVATE DOUGHERTY AND THE BASS.\\nthe few that miiy be caught will make no difference. I\\ndo not learn that any settlers live near this spot. Land\\nfrom the steamer, pitch your tent, and throw the fly or\\npull the trigger at your option. I am sure you will have\\nrare sport, and to your full satisfaction.\\nH. W. Merrill.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "XVIII.\\nTHE PET BIRDS OF ST. AUGUSTINE.\\nTHIS is a lovely day. The sun is bright and the air\\nbalmy neither too warm nor too cool. I am\\nwriting by the open window. Everything is as still as\\nif it were the Sabbath. Far out in the bay is a boat, in\\nwhich sits a man, lazily fishing. A querulous crow flies\\nby, hoai-sely croaking, and the white wing of a gull\\ngleams distantly in tlie sunlight. The old flag is gently\\nfloating in the soft south Avind. The sky is blue, the\\nwaves are bright and glancing, and a general sense of\\nlaziness seems to pervade the air, and one feels like\\nleaning on the sill and gazing out on the quiet beauty of\\nthe scene forever. In the distance, above the belt of\\ndark-green trees, is the lighthouse, with its pure white\\ntower pointing heavenward, like a tall church spire, and\\nits blessed star of hope on the summit. Right below it\\nand cresting the sand hills of Anastasia Island, is the\\nlong line of evergreen, with an occasional palm-tree,\\nwhose feathery fronds wave above the general mass of\\nfoliage, the very emblem of grace. To the south are the\\nstorehouses and buildings for the workmen engaged in\\nerecting the new lighthouse, which, when completed,\\nwill stand one hundred and eighty feet above the water,\\nwith a light of the first order visible twenty-eight miles\\nat sea. To the north extend the long line of breakers\\n7", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146 THE PET BIRDS OF ST. AUGUSTIITE.\\nwitli tlioir wliite-capped crests surging over the bar.\\nFurtlier north yet, the snow-white sand of the beach and\\ntlie interminable line of verdureless dnnes glisten iu\\nthe sun. Nearer are the wide marshes, so infested with\\nrattlesnakes that cattle cannot graze there. Here and\\ntliere a few clumps of sciiib relieve the brownish j-ellow\\nof the marsli. Nearer yet is the bay, shimmering in the\\nsun. On the shore near the sea-wall, the tide is down.\\nA little gray-coated sand-piper comes tripping along the\\nl)each, pecking softly to itself, as if it enjoyed the sun,\\nand perches upon a warm stone, dressing its feathers.\\nThen comes the sea-wall a monument of governmental\\npatronage, and the favorite Sabbath evening promenade\\nof Minorca s dark-eyed beauties. At its terminus, far to\\nthe north, loom up the massive towers and frowning\\nbattlements of Fort San Marco, the pride of the ancient\\ncity. How peaceful the scene, for peaceful looking it\\nis, notwithstanding the old fort looms in the distance,\\nwith racks full of great cannon-balls and field-pieces on\\nthe parade in the foreground. The day was so lovely\\nthat, having a few hours leisure, I thought I would go\\nand see the birds, so I called on the Colonel, who is\\na capital sailor, and finding him disengaged, we started\\nin his skiff (ycleped by the jokers the Snorting Sea-\\nhorse), and sailed up the bay about a mile beyond the\\ntown, passing the Old Fort and running in among the\\nbayous which intersect the wide marshes.\\nHave you ever heard of the birds I copy a slip\\nfrom the St. Augustine Press which will explain the\\nmatter\\nAVe witnessed a novel and beautiful sight a few\\ndays ago at the farm of Mrs. H., situated on the North\\nriver, about two miles above the city. Mrs. H., in the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE PET BIRDS OF ST. AUGUSTINE. 147\\ncourse of a few months, has succeeding in taming the wild\\nbirds that fly about the place. While we were in the\\nhouse, Mrs. H. went out to the door and called to the\\nbirds, which were then, in the middle of the day, in the\\nadjoining forest. In a few moments a dozen or more\\nblue-birds and mocking-birds came flying around her.\\nShe then came into the house and handed each of our\\njiarty a raisin, wdiich we were requested to hold out in\\nour fingers. We remained still for a few minutes, when\\nthe birds hopped in at the door, flew^ upon our hands,\\nand picked the raisins from our fingers. We were\\nastonished, and could not help wondering the more when\\nwe were informed that none of these birds had been\\ncaged, but were thus tamed by the gentleness and art of\\nthis lady.\\nAs it may interest some of your readers, and conduce,\\nperhaps, to both pleasure and profit, and aid the cause\\nof the feathered tribes by inducing some of our gentle\\nand fair friends to aid in their civilization and domesti-\\ncation, I will give the result of my trip, which will show\\nthe power of continued gentleness and kindness with\\nthese beautiful denizens of our woods.\\nAfter landing, a pleasant drive of a mile or two, over\\nsandy roads and through a thick chaparral, brought us\\nto the little farm, but we found its occupants absent, so\\nmissed seeing the birds, which, as it afterward turned\\nout, would have been the case even had Mrs. H. been at\\nhome, for her feathered visitors were of those varieties\\nwiiich migrate from the north and had not yet returned.\\nWe w^ere driving back, a good deal disappointed, when\\non the road we met the old lady and her son, so we\\nstopjjed and held some pleasant talk. I told her I had a\\ndear friend in the distant North who had read of her", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148 THE PET BIRDS OF ST. AUGUSTIIS B.\\nbirds with interest, and was anxious to know how she\\ntamed them. I added that my friend loved the birds,\\nbut couhl not succeed in winning them in their wild\\nstate to feed from the hand as she had done. Mrs. H.\\nseemed much pleased at this, and smilingly began to\\ntell me how it had been brought about. She is a placid\\nlooking old lady about sixty-five, but young and active\\nfor her years. She and her son, a young man of twenty-\\nfive, had bought a tract of land about two miles north\\nof this city (St. Augustine), put up a shingle house, and\\nthere they ived. They are farmers, sell berries, corn,\\npotatoes, poultry, etc., and thus obtain a comfortable\\nlivelihood. Their house is on the edge of a bayou lead-\\ning to the North river, just between the marshes and the\\nwoods, on comparatively high ground a pretty site, with\\na fine outlook toward the sea. They were very lonely\\nthere, however, no near neighbors and but few passers by.\\nIt all came of my being so lonely, said Mrs. H.,\\nand I give her own words as nearly as I remember\\nfor the sake of company I began to make friends with\\nthe birds, though the beginning of our friendship was\\nrather accidental, too. I always threw out the crumbs\\nfrom the table, and as I did so I noticed a great many\\nbirds would come and pick them up. They were so\\npretty and trusting, I thought it would be a pleasant\\nthing to have them round me, so I determined to make\\na regular habit of feeding them every day, and I began\\nto throw my crumbs and handsful of grain far from the\\nhouse toward the grove, each day a little nearer and\\nnearer till I got tliem right round tlie door. All this\\ntime I was very careful not to frighten my little friends.\\nI had no children about the house, and did not keep\\neither a dog or cat, so the quiet could not be broken", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE PET BIRDS OF ST. AUGUSTINE. 149\\nthere was nothing to alarm or startle, and the birds soon\\nbecame fearless. Then, she added, my son noticed\\nwhat I was doing and joined me, and by degrees, the\\nbirds learned to know him and trust him as they did me.\\nAfter they had been feeding round the door for some\\ntime, I put some of the crumbs in my hand and held it\\nperfectly still. Then they hopped up and began to eat\\nfrom my fingers. I knew I had their hearts then.\\nFinding I never tried to catch them, they came into the\\nhouse, twittered about and fed without fear. I now\\nbegan to call them, and as the little creatures knew tliis\\nmeant food (for I neyer disappointed them), they learned\\nto know my voice and came readily at my call.\\nMrs. H. informed me that this continued for some\\ntime, when strangers heard of it, and began to drive out\\nto see her pets perfect quiet was enjoined, and the touch-\\ning or catching of any bird was carefully prohibited.\\nThe little creatures were perfectly fearless, coming at\\nher call, no matter who was there, and fluttering and\\ntwittering about her. Many people had been there and\\nseen it, and, said she, I have received many letters\\ninquiring my method of so completely taming wild wood\\nbirds, but there is nothing about it, no charm, only\\nkindness and perfect freedom from harm or annoyance.\\nThe birds went north in the spring, and this had been\\nthe first year Mrs. H. tried feeding them, and accident\\nand loneliness had brought about this pleasant friendship.\\nI do hope it won t be broken off, she added earnestly,\\nI want the birds to come back. I have learned to\\nlove them, so I could not bear them to forget me.\\nSuch was her story. I assured her that many, if not\\nall her birds, would return, and very likely bring their\\nlittle ones with them, that such were their habits, and", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150 THE I ET lUKDS OF ST. AUGUSTIKB.\\nif my friend came to this land of flowers, we would be\\nsure to remember and come to see both herself and her\\nbirds. I must not forget to add that I asked her what\\nkind of birds were her guests. I can hardly tell you,\\nshe said, there are so many that I do not know but I\\nsee plenty of mocking-birds among them, blue jays, blue-\\nbirds, robins, and little brown birds, which are very\\nsociable. By these last I recognized the friendly little\\nsparrows so familiar to us at home. She also told me they\\nexpected to build a new house, and she wondered if the\\nbirds would consider that a safe home, and come there too.\\nSo we parted, she to her lonely home and we to the\\nbarracks. But the memory of that scene returns pleas-\\nantly to me the quiet road- side shaded by the tall Flor-\\nida pines the rough-cast and shaggy horse and the\\ngentle old lady sitting among her baskets, with her son\\nby her side. I seem to see now her face lit up and shin-\\ning with sweetness and peacefulness as she talked of her\\npets. That countenance, radiant with the beauty of a\\nserene, kindly sj^irit, tliat gentle voice I vividly recall\\nand as I do so, I do not wonder that the very birds of\\nthe air learned to trust and love her. For all this told a\\nstory that even they could not fail to read.\\nBut I have not taken my friend there yet, nor do I\\nknow whether the hope of the good old lady \\\\ms ever\\nbeen realized, and Jier friends (the bii ds) returned to\\nbrighten and cheer her declining years, and meet their\\nkindly welcome. Long before I shall be able, in this\\never-clianging army life, to revisit the ancient city, the\\nold lady will doubtless have gone to her rest. May the\\nbirds, as in the sweet nursery tradition of Hhe Babes\\nin the Wood, hover over her grave and lovingly scatter\\nleaves above her peaceful breast.\\nA. R. Egbekt.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "XIX.\\nSTEAM-YACHTIXG ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\nTHERE is a combination of pleasure in boat life that\\nis unrivalled, and it is a matter of regret that, with\\nour magnificent inland waters, some among them attrac-\\ntive at every season, so little eUort has been made to\\nrender more simple and economical the methods for\\nenjoying them. Our steamboats are perfection, and he\\nwho will go by time card, and with half the population\\nof a city as companions, may be wafted along like a\\nprince, and find at hand every luxury of life but if he\\nwill go or tarry at will, hasten or linger as tempted at\\nthe moment, there is less chance to do it, with any pres-\\nent arrangements, than on the Nile or Amazon.\\nFleeing a year ago from the cold, your corresj^ondent\\nfound himself steaming rapidly away from one of the\\nlong wharves of the lower St. Johns, on a small, impet-\\nuous little yacht, one of the busy, bustling kind, imbued\\nwith the restless spirit that small things usually possess\\nand exhibit, to show that, after all, size is not everything.\\nIt was a day for idling, and the rapid puff was not in\\nharmony so, leaning over the small bow deck, that just\\nheld a bell and two easy chairs, the order was given to\\nold Paul, the well-known pilot, to slow up, and Paul\\nconveyed the same to the engineer, when the sharp rip-\\nple at the bow lost its rustle, the engine breathed more", "height": "3494", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "153 YACHTING OS THE ST. JOHNS.\\ncomfortably, and witli a wide, lazy wake spreading far\\nbehind on the golden river, we laid back in our seats,\\nand determined to abandon Northern haste, and learn\\nlaziness in earnest in fact, to do nothing as hard as\\npossible. And the lesson was very easy. The slow-\\ndrifting clouds, the currentless river, the gentle wind,\\nand all about was peaceful and free from suggestion of\\nhaste and coming fresh from driven clouds and hurry-\\ning storms, it was enough to take in sunshine and re-\\npose, leaving for another time action and progress.\\nAll that surrounds one at the South is suggestive of,\\nand in unison with, rest and notliing is more grateful.\\nAt the North it is not so energy and haste see^i the\\nspirit of animate and inanimate life. The wind blusters\\nand frets in an eager way, while the clouds drive on as\\nif their haven was not yet found. The surf on the\\nrocky sliores is not the low, long tone of the strand it\\nessays the conquest and crumbling of the rock-bound\\ncoasts, wliile the streams hasten on their way to the sea,\\ncutting corners like messengers, and turning a whirl here\\nand there with an expression of relief at getting away\\nfrom a temporary delay in the quiet pond. And are we\\nnot too much the same Do not Northern men wear\\naway in efforts to save time, and never command leisure\\nAre not brains mazed by efforts to save ^nd systematize\\nthat only increase complexity Do not our women\\nassume care to preserve and protect their beautifully fur-\\nnished homes, until their chairs and fragile china out-\\nlast their weary lives Can minds always engrossed\\nreally see wiiat is laid broadcast of beauty and interest any\\nmore than rui!lod w^aters can reflect the sky or beautiful\\nshores and does not our laboriously assumed discipline\\nof habit finally become a power that cannot be shaken", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "TACHTIInG on the 8T. johks. 153\\noff, even if weakened vitality warns that it must be\\ndone But our bows were unbent, and our surrender\\nto. the peaceful influences was unconditional. The\\nbroad, quiet river bore no evidence of the centuries that\\nhave passed since the first adventurers explored it for the\\nfountain of youth a fountain that, undiscovered for\\nman, assuredly maintains the evergreen vigor of this\\nremarkable stream. Known longer than any river on\\nthe continent, it is the same to the eye as when the first\\nboat passed over it. At hardly any point are there\\nbreaks in the line of foliage that crowds to the water s\\nedge; and miles and miles did we pass on, seeing no evi-\\ndence that the swells from our boat were not the first\\nthat set the water-lilies nodding a friendly welcome.\\nThe lower river is too wide for game, being often ten\\nmiles from shore to shore quite sea-room enough for a\\nyachtman s skill, and water enough for a good sized craft\\non nearly all stretches. From this wide water we turned\\ninto Black creek, where we were promised shots at alli-\\ngators. This is a very beautiful stream, about one hun-\\ndred yards wide. The alligator is very much like our\\nnorthern turtles in his manner of life and, like them,\\nenjoys sunshine on his scaly form. We slowed the\\nengine and went on very quieth^, keeping near the sunny\\nbank of the river, and half forgetting, at times, our pur-\\npose, in admiration of the same. The alligator is not\\neasily seen by a novice among so many new forms to\\ncatch the eye. Their scaly backs, when dry, are pre-\\ncisely the color of bark, and lying on or by fallen trees,\\ntlieir form assimilates so closely to the decaying trunks,\\nthat we were unable to distinguish them at first, even\\nwhen our small imp-of-all-work would grimace like a\\nmonkey in efforts to point them out. We did not admit\\n7*", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "ir)4 YACHTING ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\nwith candor tliat we did not sec tlicni, but bnivcl} fired\\naway, and kei)t u}) an expression of entire wisdom, even\\nAvlien, in resi)onse to hurried shots, chips Hew from h^gs\\nthat were not very near the splash made by the escaping\\nsaurian. One or two were liit, and when wounded gave\\na disphiy of power tluit increased our respect for tliem.\\nSmashing about, tliey made tlie foam and water lly like\\na proi)eller wheel on a tear, but almost invarialjly re-\\ntained enough vitality to get to the bottom, where the\\nbody remains in the mud and grass until, expanded by\\ndecomposition, it rises to be food for swarms of turkey-\\nbuzzards. We continued this rifle practice for some\\ntime, until the long shadows covered both banks, when\\nthe alligators, as dependent upon sunshine as butterflies,\\nwent into their slimy homes. Then we turned, to reach\\nthe open river before dark, let on more steam, and laid\\naside our rifles to enjoy the scene. It was wonderfully\\nfair. Foliage of new forms pressed out over the water\\nvines, hid en with bloom, hnng, like Narcissus over the\\nflood, lost in their reflections ducks swam hastily on\\nbefore us, drawing a wake that became long rays of light,\\nand, overtaken, took long circles back to the quiet scenes\\nwe were leaving wliile, on the topmost branches of tall\\ntrees, turkey-buzzards sat in rows, waiting like ghouls\\nfor death and decay to lure them down. They were un-\\nmindful of rifle-balls safe in worthlessness they sur-\\nveyed the scene their repulsive forms marred, and when\\nthe shadows were almost as dark as their sable wings,\\nwe were glad to enter the open river. Over the bar, witii\\nfull steam, we pressed on as long as we could see and\\nthen, tied to a deserted wood wharf for the night, lighted\\nup our little cabin, had our supper, a f-W glasses of social\\nwine, and turned in to dream of semi-tropical life.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "YACHTIKG ON THE ST. JOHNS. 155\\nThese piers are often carried a long way into the\\nbroad river before reaching water of sufficient depth for\\na steamboat, so shallow are many of the bays, and they\\ndo not endure long in a climate where heat and moisture\\nexpedite decay, and where, under water, various borers are\\never at work running their galleries through and through\\neven the gummy pitch-pine logs.\\nWith some ingenuity very comfortable beds were\\nimprovised from cushions, rugs, etc., and despite the hot\\nbreath and loud respirations of the furnace and boiler,\\nvery near our heads, we made out a comfortable night on\\nour steam tug. At daybreak a fog hung over the stream,\\nand we were forced to await its clearing. It did not\\ndelay long, but rolled away like a curtain, and opened a\\nmorning view of the scenes that we were so reluctant to\\nhave overshadowed the night before. Our cook was\\nbusy in a caboose a little smaller than a watch-box, from\\nwhich drifted, a fragrant odor of Java as we came on\\ndeck and freshened up in pails of clear water, and ate\\nour fruit before breakfast. We were drifting along, with\\nsummer all around air, water, and sky all full of\\nwarmth. Our will our law, to go, to stop, hasten or\\nlinger as we fancied at the moment, and in unison with\\nthe soothing influences of the scene we gave ourselves up\\nto vigorous idleness. After our meal, as our crew was\\nsmall, your correspondent took the wheel while the cap-\\ntain enjoyed his breakfast. The pilot-house was low\\nand open. Just in front, in easy camp-chairs, sat the\\nrest of our little party smoking, with their guns on a\\ncable box in front, all of us feeling little interest in get-\\nting anywhere, the one fact of gliding along amid slowly\\nvaried scenes being sufficient. It was indeed luxurious.\\nOur black imp was at hand to respond to every wish and", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156 YACHTING ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\nattend to every want that might have caused greater\\nexertion than winking, and we were convinced that- man s\\nnatnral bent was laziness, from the very rapid and com-\\nplete surrender of three hurrying, worrying, nervously\\nactive Northerners to the abandon of the Sunny South.\\nThere was but little game in sight as yet. We were\\non the highway, where from the forward decks of every\\nsteamer a fusillade of small-arms is kept up on every liv-\\ning thing, from alligators to the useful buzzards that\\nclustered upon the floating carrion. Every man and\\nboy feels called upon to do some sporting in Florida,\\nand all are armed with as varied a lot of guns and pistols\\nas would adorn an arsenal. The rapid movement of the\\nriver boats prevents any very serious results to the ani-\\nmals and birds, unless when now and then the ricochet\\nof a ball kills a cow in the woods but it amuses all but\\nthe timid people, and is a customer of very great value\\nto the Union Metallic Cartridge Company.\\nThe birds seem well informed as to the range of\\nmodern arms. The stately and beautiful snowy herons\\nspread their white wings only when rifles are raised, and\\nthe less beautiful alligator seems to know just when to\\nlaunch himself to save his scaly sides from harm. The\\nanimal life of the lower St. Johns is not of the simple\\nkind, but the denizens of this Broadway know a thing\\nor two, and are not to be taken in by any cheap tricks.\\nConsequently our guns were idle, and nothing aroused\\nus from the quiet state of enjoyment that is so valuable\\nto the strained minds that have been keeping pace with\\nthe restlessness of Northern life.\\nThe afternoon found us at Pilatka, where the larder\\nwas reinforced, ice purchased, and a boat obtained. At\\ntwilight we pushed on, turning into the narrower and", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "YACHTIi^Q ON THE ST. JOHNS 157\\nmore picturesque channels, where the forest crowded out\\nto the water s edge, and sprays of floAvering vines hung\\nfar oyer the flood, lost in vain admiration of their mir-\\nrored heauty and grace.\\nThe water was deep even to the shore, and we cut\\nthe bends of the stream close under the foliage that\\nrustled with the breeze made by our motion, while views\\nof remarkable beauty opened every moment before us,\\neach in deeper shade and more mysterious beauty as the\\nrapid darkness came on. As later every form on shore\\nwas lost in the dense blackness of night, it became a\\nwonder to us how old Paul could thread the devious\\nand narrow channel but on we sped, only halting inshore\\nonce to let one of the great river boats go by. The huge\\nthing came panting like a leviathan breathing flame and\\nwith wide-open furnaces casting broad bars of light over\\nthe water, and rows of colored signal lamps far above\\nthe bright cabin windows, she made a striking scene\\nagainst the night as she sped on, bearing a gay throng\\nof pleasure-seekers to the upper river.\\n^Ye were not anxious, however, to get on. There\\nwas a wealth of beauty by the way, that few on the\\ngreat stream would see, and after feeling our way for a\\ntime, old Paul rang to stop her! back her, and\\nour little boat drifted against a wood wharf, that no one\\nbut our pilot could have found, with no sign to mark it\\nunder the forest blackness and here, tied up to a decayed\\ndock, we did not envy the passengers going on time.\\nFormer experience told how there would be a rusli\\nfor seats, and a scramble for food, and a long cue of tired\\nmen and women waiting to learn from a patient purser\\nthat there were no more state-rooms, no more beds on\\nthe floor, and no more blankets for a curl up under the", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "158 YACHTING ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\ndining tables. We were not at tlie mercy of negro\\nstewardesses, nor to be snubbed by magnificent waiters\\nwe were as independent as chimney-SAveeps in a crowd.\\nYour correspondent was admiral of tlie fleet (steamer\\nand two skiffs), sailing-master, ^^bo sun tight and mid-\\nshipmite, and chief of ordnance (one Scott and one\\nRemington), while Madame was in command of our cabin\\npassengers (maid and one child), and reigned supreme\\nover a culinary department consisting of two spirit-lamps\\nat night and a fire on shore in the day time.\\nJust at the time we tied up, hot tea was singing on\\none lamp, hot soup (thanks to Liebig), on the other\\nand with rolls, devilled meat, and canned luxuries, there\\nwas a good supper laid away, and the events of the day\\ncame in pleasant retrospect through the cheering medium\\nof sparkling wine.\\nAt dawn we clambered on to the old wharf. A wood\\nroad ran back from it through the forest to a settler s\\nhome. Birds were singing gayly, among them our\\nfamiliar summer friends but many strange notes came\\nfrom the low growth. Following what seenued to be the\\nsound of an axe, a woodpecker was found, an earlier work-\\nman than the lazy crackers. It was one of the large\\nfellows that are sometimes seen on southern trees as\\nlarge as a teal duck, a gay, handsome bird, with a bill\\nlike iron and a head that enables them to exercise the\\nfeat, long considered impossible, of sawing wood with a\\nhammer. Ducks, herons, water turkeys, ospreys, and\\nother birds followed the narrow water in their flight, shy-\\ning above the tree tops as they found us occupying their\\nsolitude, and saying hard things of us in their own way,\\nwhile high up on a venerable cypress limb sat several\\nducks, rather an unusual sight, and there they sat while", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "YACHTING ON THE ST. JOHNS. 159\\nwe made a fire and cooked our breakfast, and only moved\\noff when a ball went very near them.\\nXothing can equal this mode of enjoying the soutli-\\nern rivers. From the lofty decks of the steamers a great\\ndeal is seen, but every moment one is hurried ruthlessly\\naway from some spot where there is every temptation to\\nlinger, and then left to wdiile aAvay hours at some land-\\ning where preceding crowds have gathered every flower,\\nand alarmed every bird with pistols and parasols.\\nAfter a leisurely breakfast on shore, as free from care\\nas gypsies, we went on board put easy chairs on deck,\\nlaid our guns before us, and steamed on through\\nscenes of great beauty and variety, now and then getting\\na duck, wliich was picked up and enjoyed by our men,\\nwho cooked them in the furnace under the boiler.\\nAbove Pilatka the river becomes less lake-like.\\nThere is more perceptible current, and it bends and\\ndrifts by islands, when, the channel being nearer the\\nshore, more of the forest is seen. Unbroken woods and\\nranks of tall stems come quite to the w^ater s edge\\nindeed the huge cypress trees stand in the margin, and\\nsurrounded by the upward pointed roots, rising from one\\nto four feet high, called knees, they give a novel appear-\\nance to the ground, while overhead the long gray drapery\\nof Spanish moss adds an impression that these are bearded\\nw^oods of unknown age, hoary and ancient as Druid oaks.\\nFresh and bright are the grand magnolias, every dark-\\ngreen leaf polished until it is silver in the sunlight\\nand as a new form to the N orthern eye the tall palmettoes\\nraise their tufted crowns of huge leaves. On dry ground\\nthe live-oak assumes superb proportions, its low spread-\\ning form and broad shade being in gi-ateful contrast to\\nthe rigid formality and upright lines of the southern", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "160 YACHTIN^G ON THE 8T. JOHN 3.\\npines, so abundant and so mnnntonons. Beneath these\\ntrees is a varied and interesting growth of forms very\\nstrange in contrast witli tlie small thin undergrowth of\\nthe North. The huge leaves of the cabbage palmetto,\\nfive or six feet in diameter, are very handsome, with their\\ncrimped fan-like radiating form, and the saw-palmetto\\nshrub is very similar. A wealth of small growth and\\nvines is mingled in the green tangle, while parasitic\\nplants, mistletoe, and air-plant, form mid-air clusters\\nforeign to any our hardwood hills present.\\nAbout noon we reached Lake George and found it\\nvery rough, but leaving the channel we followed an\\nunusual route through the islands and ventured out, our\\nyacht rolling a good deal, but we soon came under the\\nwest shore and found shelter. About midway on the\\nshore is one of the Avonderful springs that are so beauti-\\nful. Leaving the yacht, we poled in a flat skiff over a\\nshallow bar, and up the stream that flows from the\\nspring. The entrance was among lilies called bonnets\\nby the natives, and they were swarming with duck and\\nrail while in the water, that was as clear as air, were\\nshoals of fish, bass, mullet, long, savage-looking gar-fish\\nand huge cat-fish. They would not bite, but were easily\\npunched with an oar, and with a sjiear numbers could\\nhave been obtained. Here and there lay alligators, eye-\\ning us wickedly, and they were far more bold than in\\nthe main river. On the low points resembling the\\nspirituelle as completely as the alligators represent the\\ninfernal were stately, snowy herons, the most beautiful\\nfeature of all this sunny land. Following the dark\\ntliread of water through a profusion of semi-aquatic\\ngrt)\\\\vth, we entered the forest until it overreached the\\nnarrow water, and was, in all its beauty, repeated in tho", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "YACHTING OJ^ THE ST. JOHNS. 161\\ncalm flood below. The long gray moss hung almost to\\nits reflection, and in the long vista all mingled into a\\nconfusion of waving form and shadow that concealed\\nthe water line, making a scene as indefinite and unreal\\nas a dream. All kinds of birds and animals fluttered on\\nbefore us or stole away into the woods. The grotesque\\nsnake-birds, or water turkeys, wriggled and stared, and\\ntumbled off their per dies with a helpless splash into the\\nwater, as if overcome with astonishment, and would next\\nbe seen with two or three inches of snake-like head and\\nneck, going rapidly by. Precisely do they resemble a\\nsmall swimming snake, and one can hardly believe that\\nthere is so large a bird under the surface. In the dim\\nlight that found its way through the huge leaves, we\\ncame upon a congress of owls, assembled, beyond doubt,\\nin the mysteries of some ancient order of Minerva, and\\nnever was so much wisdom so solemnly arrayed. Silent,\\ndignified, and conservative, doing nothing lightly, com-\\nmitting themselves to no unmatured ideas, even and\\ntemperate, what body could equal them I had seen\\nless manifest self-respect in the great and august men\\nwho eat peanuts in the beautiful chambers at Washing-\\nton. Silently we gazed mutually on my part a con-\\nviction of trespass became uncomfortable, and I was\\nabout framing an apology in long Avords of Greek deri-\\nvation when the gray wings opened and the whole party\\nflitted silently away, merging into the smoke-colored\\nmoss like a transformation scene.\\nLife abounds in these retreats. Here the wood duck\\nwinters in solitude, curlew sweep along in flocks, coot\\nand rail run among the sedge, deer come shyly down to\\ndrink, or, frightened by the puma, plunge in and seek\\nrefuge in swimming. Under the bonnets are voracious", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "162 YACHTING ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\nwide-mouthed bass, called trout by the natives, who\\nknow not our clear norlbcni waters nor the brii^ht-hued\\nlisli that enliven them antl when the sun is bright, huge\\ngar-tish, or alligator gar, long-nosed fellows, bask near\\nthe surface. Near springs where the waters are clear\\nthe study of aquatic life is very interesting. In one such\\nstream, with a bright sandy bottom, I saw more varieties\\nof fish than I can describe or name. Among them, in\\ngroups, were fish like pike, from one to two and three\\nfeet long. The gar were abundant, and four to six feet\\nin length, going oft like arrows, leaving a swirl like a\\npropeller. In deeper spots clustered bass, a spotted fish\\nI could not learn the name of, and fish called silver fish,\\nwhile flitting along like bats, raising little clouds of\\nsand at each stroke of their liver-colored wings, were\\nelectric rays, or stingarees. Under our boat, too, undu-\\nlated the water moccasin, eyeing us angrily, and darting\\nout a forked tongue most viciously. At .another time,\\nin one of these bayous near Enterprise, while paddling\\nalong, I shot a small alligator, some four feet long.\\nThe ball tipped and cut his skull, and, as my excel-\\nlent boatman July said, killed him. Poking him up\\nfrom the bottom we took him guardedly aboard. He\\nwas seemingly very dead, so his shiny form was placed\\nunder the bow deck, over which I stood, shooting at gar-\\nfish, hoping to get one. I had forgotten the fellow,\\nwhen I was astonished by a smashing under my feet,\\nand with a jumj^ over July made my escape into tlie\\nstern, where a lady was sitting, just in time to save my\\nlegs from a ras}) of his well-aimed tail. Out he came,\\nsmasliing and spoiling for a muss, his long mouth open,\\nand an unpleasant look of mischief in his bloody head\\nand eyes. There were just then some amazing ideas", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "TACHTIIS G ON THE ST. JOHKS. 163\\nBuggestecl. Jumping OTerboard was going from the\\nalligator frying-pan into a fire of sting rays, electric eels,\\nand moccasins. Shooting him was a pleasant and re-\\nvengeful idea, but it meant blowing a hole in the bottom\\nof the boat. The old story of the natural histories\\nreminded me that it was the proper thing to jump on\\nhis back and hold up his fore legs but I was at the\\nwrong end of him, and riding one without a saddle is\\nnot a thing to do even with the spur of necessity. It\\nwas rather close. The boat was not as long as we wished\\nit was, and we had exhausted our retreat, but, master\\nof the situation, he waddled on with an air of conquest\\nand extermination until July met him bravely and pun-\\nished him with the butt of an oar until he was again\\nstunned. We had lost confidence in killing him, and to\\nbe safe tied him overboard and towed him to a landing,\\nwhere he recovered his fine disposition under a system of\\nannoyance from all the visitors, and finally gave evidence\\nof it by biting a man. When I heard this I said nothing\\nof his being my pet, and due justice was meted him.\\nInjury from alligators is very uncommon, but they\\nare at times very fierce. A gentleman going to recover\\na duck, shot on the upper St. Johns, saw an alligator seiz-\\ning it, and poured a charge of shot into his head, when\\nthe injured and infuriated beast turned and bit a large\\npiece, gunwale and all, from the skiff. Their power is\\nvery great, and when wounded they give evidence of it,\\nthrashing and crushing all about them. I shot one\\nthrough the head on Six Mile creek, and he leaped from\\nthe ground until he looked as high as a horse. Heavy\\nand awkAvard as they seem, they are not to be approached\\nunguardedly, and although always ready to escape, if\\nprevented they are very vicious.", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "1G4 YACHTING ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\nHalf a mile from the lake, the stream ended in a\\ncurve under a higli bank, and liere by liard rowing we\\nfound the spring, and looked down into a white walled\\nchasm through water that seemed too ethereal to support\\nour skiff. It was a dizzy overlook down into this deep\\npool, where long weeds writhed and swayed forty or fifty\\nfeet below us in the swell of the current, and where\\nshoals of huge fish would sweep out from under rocks\\nand be swept rapidly about like shadows. The water\\nrose with such force as to make a high boiling centre,\\nwhere skilful rowing could poise a boat, only to slide\\naway with a rapid balloon-like motion that was not at\\nall pleasant. Fine palmettoes had surrounded this won-\\nderful pool with a fit and beautiful shade, but they were\\njust then a heap of smouldering ashes, having been cut\\naway for cotton ground that might better have been\\ntaken from the unHmited forest beyond the small clear-\\ning. Vandal hands have rarely marred a more weird\\nscene, nor ignorance more surely damaged the value of a\\nrare possession but so it is in Florida all hands, from\\nthe jewelled one that wrote its owner s name in ^font at\\nSt. Augustine, to the cracker s horny palm, are against\\nthe. ancient, the curious, and the beautiful and ere long\\nthe cliffs will bear quack medicine names, and the old\\nwalls will fall before want of taste, and give away to\\npine fences, as has the old and mysterious Treasury\\nwall at St. Augustine. (A disgraceful fact.)\\nThe tropical character of this noble river is chiefly\\nseen above Lake George. North of this lake the north-\\nwest winds, the cold storm winds of the country, pass\\nonly overland from the frozen north, and in mid-winter\\nBometimes bring a very unpleasant chill, one that renders\\norange culture precarious, blighting in some years the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "YACHTING ON THE ST. JOHNS. 165\\nnew buds but south of this the winds having any west-\\nerly direction pass over more or less of the Gulf, and are\\ndisarmed by the warmth and moisture of that body of\\nwater of their blighting chill and dryness, and about\\nEnterprise snow and frost are practically unknown\\npalms, palmettoes, bananas, and orange trees assume\\nforms of vigor that render them very beautiful to the\\nNorthern eye, and the refugee from winter finds an\\nassured promise of gentle air and golden sunshine.\\nThe river is very crooked, bending sharply around\\npoints, cutting deeply into the banks, forming deep\\nboiling pools, where fish are seen breaking constantly.\\nThe shores are usually low a point ten feet high is\\nknown as a bluff, and such are sought by settlers for\\nhomes, possessing all the freedom from miasma, insects,\\nand dampness that can be expected where the sun of\\nalmost perpetual summer breeds during many months a\\nfull crop of annoyances. The driest and most desirable\\nplaces are found upon the shell mounds, where one strata\\nupon another of shells form elevations of very consider-\\nable extent. These shell formations are of great interest,\\nand puzzle the keenest minds with their layers of differ-\\nent shells, each distinctly defined in character, and\\ndiffering in a marked form from the next.\\nThe water-worn river banks show long and perfect\\nsections of this character, and the strata are plainly seen\\nin even and distinctly marked lines, not always level,\\nbut extending in long, unbroken elevations and depres-\\nsions showing that some disturbing upheavals have\\nraised and lowered the deposited shells after they were\\nimbedded in their present order.\\nSome of the strata, lying perhaps six inches in thick-\\nness, are composed of bivalve shells almost exclusively,", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "166 YACHTING ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\nmuch crushed and broken, but cemented quite firmly\\nother strata are without shells of this form, being com-\\n])osed of conical, convolute shells of about one inch on\\neach angular side but these differ again in some the\\nshells are fresh, but little broken, and not firmly\\ncemented in others crushed in fine fragments, and\\nstrongly united with the lime made by their partial\\ndecomposition. All these varieties may be seen over-\\nlying one another in a vertical height of four or five feet,\\nand the different bands of color form lines that are visi-\\nble as far as the face of the formation is exposed.\\nUpon these shell lands there are found numerous\\nconical mounds, regular in form, rising from ten to\\nthirty feet, evidently of human origin, supposed to have\\nbeen, like the pyramids of Egypt, burial places for the\\ndistinguished dead of some race that has left no other\\nrecord. The arrow-heads, axes, and other works of rude\\nart, found in these mounds, are those of the Stone\\nAge, which on this continent is extended to the present\\ntime among some remote Indian tribes but some of\\nthese implements are found imbedded in a conglomerate\\nso firm and stone-like that they convey to the mind of\\nthe ethnologist an impression of as remote antiquity as\\nsurrounds the bone caves and gravel deposits of France.\\nA great deal of learning has been exhausted upon\\nthese remains but full examination has not yet been\\nmade, and many links in the chain of unwritten history\\nmay be supplied when a full comparison of these\\nuiounds, and the works they contain, is made with the\\ncorresponding discoveries of the Old World.\\nAs the more minute peculiarities of our pre-historic\\nancestors are learned, tliere is no safe limit to assume of\\nthe unravellings of the maze that surrounds the deeply", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "TACHTIIS^G ON THE ST. JOHNS. 167\\ninteresting questions of unity or diyersity of races and\\nit is not unlikely that secrets are hidden in the shell\\nmounds of Florida that may, when discovered and inter-\\npreted in the broad light of future knowledge, tell many\\na curious tale of wandering tribes and far-fetched arts\\nand customs.\\nHalf lost in vain theories and surmises, aroused by\\nthese peculiar remains, gun and rod were not unfre-\\nquently laid aside, and our minds given up to the ro-\\nmantic associations of the first voyagers who here sought\\nthe fountain of youth, carrying so much of w^oe and\\ncruelty with them that it is fortunate for the present\\nthat they did not find any elixir of the kind and to the\\nmore vague but pleasant fancies of the race that still\\nearlier possessed this alluring land, and roamed freely,\\nwith no more idea of a coming and overcoming race than\\noccurs to us now in our period of supremacy.\\nBut this is drifting, and we would not be left with-\\nout anchorage in the realms of speculation. We really\\nwent rapidly against the stream, and after a long day of\\nfull enjoyment tied our craft to a bank, and in our\\nsmall but snug cabin made pleasant plans for the\\nmorrow.\\nOur third day on the little steamer found us among\\nthe prairies that lie on either side of the river, below\\nLake Monroe. They were low plains, with groups of\\ntrees like islands, and long rows of stately palmettoes de-\\nfining the curves and retracings of the idle river, remind-\\ning us of the pictures of Eastern scenes of desert and\\npalms. Herds of half- wild cattle were seen upon them,\\nand sometimes a wild turkey would seek cover, not by\\nflight, but by running like the wind. A little back from\\nthe river, on wet places out of rifle-range, were groups", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "168 YACHTING ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\nof white herons, the most stately and beautiful of birds,\\nand great flocks of large curlew, while now and then gan-\\nnets would spread their huge black-and-white wings, and\\nseek quiet further apart from the river. No bird is so\\nshowy and conspicuous as the gannet, and it was long\\nour ambition to get one for the plumage, but they were\\nvery wary, and only settled down in wet places, remote\\nfrom any cover of trees or brush. Fortune, however, at\\nlast did better for me than patience or perseverance (par-\\ndon any imputation in favor of the fickle goddess), for,\\nwhile rowing in a skiff, a flock, alarmed by a steamer,\\ncame laboring over the river, urging their way with\\npowerful pinions against a gale of wind. They saw us,\\nand tried to steer clear by turning their course several\\npoints into the wind, but they made too much leeway to\\nsave their distance, and one fellow came down before my\\ngun, and sent up a cloud of spray from the river in\\nhis fall.\\nGet um quick exclaimed old July, my faithful\\nboatman, or an alligator may carry him down and\\nget um quick we did, bringing in as magnificent a mass\\nof green, black, and white plumage as nature ever\\nadorned a bird with, arousing some speculations as to\\nwhat a great economy would result, and what a vast\\namount of envious and toilsome strife and ambition\\nwould be saved, had poor bare humanity been as com-\\nfortably and superbly clothed, witliout the toil of the\\nneedle, or the costly fabrics of fashion. Tliese reflec-\\ntions did not impress July, who at once explained his\\nget um quick counsel, as inspired by an experience\\nthat had impressed him very deeply. A gentleman\\nhunting from Enterprise, shot a duck which fell in the\\nwater. As he was about taking it in, a large gator", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "TACHTIKG OK THE ST. JOHKS. 169\\napjoropriated tlie bird. The gentleman in turn gave the\\nbeast a pep23ering of shot for his sauce, enraging him,\\nwithout any serious injury, when he turned on the boat\\nand took out a piece of the side, gunwale and all, so damag-\\ning it that they only made their way home in it by careen-\\ning the broken side high out of water. These ill-man-\\nnered fellows often deprive the hunter of game that falls\\nin the water, and the foregoing incident teaches the im-\\nl^rudence of irritating them with shot.\\nThe fishing about the outlet of Lake Monroe is very\\ngood, but gar and catfish play the mischief with trolling\\ngear, and carry away spoons most annoyingly. Bass are\\nthe best fish obtained. In one of the eddying pools I\\ntook bass so rapidly, that in less than half an hour the\\nbottom of the skiff was alive with them, which, to avoid\\nwaste, were given to the steward of a steamboat, and\\nabundantly supplied the table for a hungry crowd of\\ntourists.\\nIn the spring time the herons assume, to adorn their\\nseason of love-making, a plumage of remarkable beauty.\\nIt commences at the base of the neck, and extending\\nbackward between and over the wings, the long, airy\\nplumes of dainty feathery sprays hang down gracefully\\nbehind the bird, and give a very stylish addition, a la\\n]panier, to a bird that never saw a fashion-plate, and\\nhas no troul3le with any laundress. To obtain these ex-\\nquisite decorations for the race so sadly neglected by\\nnature in regard to the adornments so lavished on the\\ninferior creations, these angel birds are assiduously\\nhunted, and are consequently so wild, that only by strat-\\negy can they .be shot on any of the borders of the river.\\nFrom our deck we noticed that numbers of blue, white,\\nand lesser herons alighted very constantly upon two iso-\\n8", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "170 YACHTIl^G ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\nlated trees, standing at the end of a sliallow water-way\\ntliat extended from the river into the prairie so, with\\ntlie hope of gaining some shots, we ordered a halt.\\nTlie steamer was tied to a tree, and we launclied a skiff\\nand paddled through the water-lilies, or bonnets (as\\nthe huge leaves are called), starting flocks of duck, rail,\\nand birds, and disturbing the siestas of numerous alliga-\\ntors and turtles. The only shelter was under some small\\nwater-growing bushes, where we hid ourselves as well as\\nwe could, draping our hats with Spanish moss, and dis-\\nposing it about, for concealment. After a time all the\\nturmoil we had caused ceased. The ducks came, one by\\none, and dodged about under the reeds and lily leaves,\\nwhile inquisitive blackbirds flitted near with impertinent\\nairs, and chaffed our ideas of concealment with un-\\nbounded slang. An alligator, that had been out sun-\\nning himself where our boat laid, came up without a\\nripple, and eyed us with long curiosity as interlopers, and\\ndrifted almost against the boat. But we were after her-\\nons, and would only shoot them, after the manner of the\\nWestern man, who, when he went a cattin went a cat-\\ntin and would not accept a bass or pike in lieu of the\\nwide-mouthed bull-head. Animal life was abundant all\\nabout, with little evidence of fear, and, watching it, it\\nwas easy to realize how deeply engrossed such naturalists\\nas Audubon became in thus studying birds a\u00c2\u00bbd animals\\nwhen free in their own haunts. Nothing seemed aAvare\\nof us but the herons. They came from remote points,\\nand seemed about to perch on the old trees, where so\\nmany were seen, but swept by and went on to other re-\\ntreats. It was hardly possible for them to discover us,\\nand we could not divine any cause for their wary move-\\nments unless they were warned by the angry scolding of", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "YACHTIiq-G OK THE ST. JOH:n:S. 171\\ntlie blackbirds that hovered about with incessant sharp\\ncries. A shot or two reduced these pests to comj^aratiye\\nsilence, when a blue heron sailed up, poised for a mo-\\nment on a bare limb, and then fell lifeless into the 2:)Ool\\nbelow. Hoping for other shots, we did not gather it in,\\nbut it was not long before an alligator slowly swam to-\\nward the dead bird, and would probably have carried it\\naway but for the arrival of a Mead explosive ball in his\\nhead. He churned the water for a moment like a pro-\\npeller wheel, and then sought the bottom to die among\\nthe weeds and again all was quiet. But we waited in\\nvain herons sailed about over the marshes, but none\\ncame near, until, weary and sunburned, we poled back\\nto the yacht, glad to get claret and ice.\\nOur plan was to go above Lake Monroe, but the\\nwater was too low on the bar, and our boat could not get\\nover. We visited Mellonville, where shad were being\\ntaken in enormous quantities and then anchored abreast\\nthe site of the old Enterprise Hotel, and landed, to visit\\nonce more, after several years absence, the Blue Spring,\\nthan which none can be more beautiful. It has been\\noften described, but it is not easy to convey an idea of\\nthe deep opaque tint of the water, nor of the picturesque\\neffect of the round pool, and its overhanging shade of\\nlive-oak, palmettoes, and vines. It is about eighty feet in\\ndiameter, and very deep. There is no motion to the\\nblue water, but a large stream flows away from it, show-\\ning the volume of the spring. The water leaves traces\\nof white sulphur along the brook, which falls some twenty\\nor thirty feet to the lake, affording a perfect place for\\nrunning water and shower baths. A small tent over the\\nstream was the only batliing convenience, but in time\\nthis will undoubtedly be developed into one of tlie most", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "172 YACHTING OX THE ST. JOHNS.\\nhoautifal resorts on tlic river, and prove one of the most\\nla iiUiiful and agreeable.\\nWe remained over-night at the MeHonville wliarf,\\nvisited some gardens conducted by people of taste\\nand skill, and saw many evidences of the capacity of\\nthis soil and clinnite to produce almost every luxury.\\nPotatoes were grown in February for the table, oranges\\nand bananas flourished free from danger of frost, and\\nbeautiful flowers rewarded very little care with profuse\\nbloom. The geranium was a small tree in the open air,\\nand the oleander made shade for a party. Strawberries\\nwere rijie while ours were under deep snow, and it was\\nnot easy to put faith in the idea that the cold March\\nwinds were heapiiig drifts that would for many a day\\nresist the sun that fell with such force upon us.\\nTurning northward, we gave ourselves to the current,\\nand went rai)idly on. At times we would tie to a tree,\\nand leaving the yacht, row quietly wj) some of the small\\nand unfrequented streams that join the river. Here all\\nwas as wild as when the Indians pursued game with their\\nstone arrow-heads, and took fish with bone spears and\\nnature seemed to revel in her own power and beauty,\\nand cast her glories of golden sunlight and varied foliage\\non every hand. The huge serried leaves of the palmet-\\ntoes swayed and glistened like shields hiding a woodland\\nhost. Cypress trees held their light foliage high against\\nthe sky, and graceful vines hung in long curves from\\nthem to the dense undergrowth of novel form. Creep-\\ning plants held their bloom over the water on dead\\ntrunks, and air-plants and ferns found resting places on\\nthe old oaks, in whose upper branches balls of mistletoe\\nghone with their polished leaves. All this would be\\ndoubled in reflection, while the dividing line between the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "YACHTIiTG 02^ THE ST. JOHXS. 173\\nbeautiful reality and tlie no less beautiful image below,\\nwas so hidden by trailing yines and aquatic plants that\\nthe vistas of the narrow streams became dreamy and in-\\ndistinct as they extended far away into an uncertainty of\\nwaving moss and deceptive shadows.\\nAgain we would go on miles in advance of the yacht,\\ndrifting noiselessly with the stream, often stealing upon\\ngame, and frequently getting a few fish. When tired,\\nwe could wait until overtaken, tie our skiff behind the\\nsteamer, and enter the snug cabin to find shelter, rest,\\nand all the comforts needful. No life could be more\\nenjoyable. We were not confined to a limited district, as\\nwhen in camp, and yet there was the same freedom, and\\nthe same opportunities for seeing and sharing wild-wood\\npursuits. There was variety in every day, fresh scenes\\neach hour, and new temptations and anticipations lead-\\ning on and on from one point to another, all with little\\nor no fatigue.\\nThis steam yachting must develop as one of the most\\nl^opular of all indulgences. With our great lakes, con-\\nnected by safe and navigable routes, and rivers of endless\\nextent and unlimited variety, through which one may\\nwander from the tropics to the far north, and find all\\nclimates and the fruits and game of each, there are un-\\nparalleled opportunities for this luxurious life. What-\\never taste or fancy may impel one to wandering, in a\\nyacht all the comforts and conveniences can be carried.\\nThe botanist can, at leisure and undisturbed, unfold his\\ncases of plants the artist can sketch and not have to\\ngather up the disorder of easel and studio the geologist\\nmay ballast his craft with stone, and the ichnologisfc\\ngather relics and form a museum en route. For the\\nnaturalist and sportsman it is perfection. His rods", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "174 TACHTI^Q ON THE ST. JOHN S.\\nneed not be unjointed, or liis guns uncased. He can\\nstuff his specimens, load shells, and tie dainty flies by\\na window before which new and varied scenes are pass-\\ning and after a hard day s tramping come back to\\nabundant comforts. As yet there are but few of these\\ndainty craft afloat, and few are aware of the charming\\nlife they offer. Tlie fleet and dainty private yacht Fal-\\ncon, on the St. Johns, was a pleasant exponent of a\\nsportsman s craft, and in time many more will follow in\\nher wake.\\nOf course there is a good deal of expense inseparable\\nfrom steam yatching, but very complete launches and\\nsmall yachts are now put afloat in perfect trim for hardly\\nany greater cost for purchase or maintenance tlian is\\nrepresented by each of hundreds of fine carriages that are\\nto be met with on the fashionable avenues of our great\\ncities, and the writer is confident from personal experi-\\nence that, abandoning all ambition for the luxuries of\\ncuisine, and seeking only plain and needful arrange-\\nments, a small family or a few gentlemen may make sum-\\nmer or winter trips with no more cost than is incurred\\nby hundreds of pleasure parties who find far less of com-\\nfort and independence than they would commanding\\ntheir own yacht and their own movements. A man\\nof as much skill as is required to make a successful\\nsportsman, can do a great deal in attending to his\\nown boat, so that the cost and annoyance of having\\ntoo many men may be avoided but unless our inspection\\nlaws are made more liberal, he must provide himself and\\nhis men with expensive licenses, and be sometimes com-\\npelled to take his men from a guild or union commanding\\nneedlessly high wages. All this, however, is in course", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "TACHTIi^G OIT THE ST. JOHKS. 175\\nof revisal, and beyond doubt, boats that do not carry\\nfor hire will be set fi ce from all needless restrictions.*\\nThe trip described in these notes \\\\vas made in a small\\nyacht chartered by the day. She was about 48 feet long,\\nand carried captain, pilot, engineer, and fireman, yet the\\ncost for a party of four was only about the same as the\\ndaily hotel board and passage tickets over the route\\nwhile the ability to visit many points without remaining\\nuntil another boat should permit moving on, was a very\\ngreat economy of time and money. Of course much was\\nseen and enjoyed that the tourist is usually hurried past,\\nor only seen in company with a crowd that does away\\nwith all the romance and characteristic quiet of the\\nwilderness. The captain was a useless party, and did no\\nservice. The pilot was needful. The fireman was a\\nluxury, a mere attendant upon a lazy engineer one man\\nThe attention of owners of steam yachts is called to the importance of\\nembodying in the new steamboat inspection laws some exemptions in favor of\\nsteam yachts and launches. As the law now stands, they are liable to severe\\npenalties for not complying with requirements that neither their size nor\\ncharacter render proper, and in the Southern States a number of small explor-\\ning and pleasure boats have been abandoned because of the oppressions of a\\nlaw designed for large vessels, carrying for hire. An immediate effort wUl\\nundoubtedly secure such amendments as will encourage the use of steam\\nlaunches, and enable explorers and sportsmen to use them with a reasonable\\neconomy, and free them from needless legal red tape and embarrassment. For\\ninstance, the requirement that a boat, however small, must carry an engineer,\\ncaptain, and pilot\u00e2\u0080\u0094 no one man to hold two licenses, and these licenses cost-\\ning $10 each, and a good deal of trouble\u00e2\u0080\u0094 is one that is unreasonable when\\napplied to a small boat, where one man is competent to do all about the engine,\\nand the owner can steer, taking his own risk now and then of getting on a\\nsand bar. There is no real reason why a boat carrying no persons for hire\\nshould be under any more restrictions than a sail boat, in which people are\\npermitted to drown themselves with the main sheet tied, and no licensed\\nsailor on board. Sportsmen cannot carry so many men on small yachts and\\nlaunches. There is neither need nor room for them, and it may be presumed\\nthat any person owning a craft of the kind will, for his own comfort and\\nsafety, exercise the same high degree of care and skill that distinguish\\nsportsmen, yachtnien, and horsemen, in their guns, boats, and equipage.", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "176 TACHTIN^G ON THE ST. JOHNS.\\ncould easily feed the fire, and run the engine with less\\ntrouble than he could get out of the fireman s way, so\\nthat two men, one a competent and careful engineer,\\nand the other. a pilot well acquainted with the channels,\\ncould run a launch or small yacht with ease, and keep\\nher under way as many hours per diem as would be\\ndesirable.\\nNot only are the rivers and lakes of Florida atti*active\\ncruising grounds, but the inlets and estuaries of the\\nsouthern coasts offer great inducements for the invalid,\\nthe naturalist, the anti(juarian, and the si^ortsman. In\\nthe spring, when the sun begins to fall with a fierce heat\\non the rivers, and desj)ite all said to the contrary, does\\nrender too much exposure impnident, the sea coast is\\nperfect. The finer kinds of fish are in season, and many\\nbeach and bay birds arc to be obtained. In April the\\nsea-bathing is safe and pleasant, and invalids and ^vell\\npeople will do a prudent thing who halt alongshore and\\ndelay their return until such birds as the bobolinks and\\norioles are with them, and not risk the loss of all the\\nbenefit of a long and costly trip by coming on with the\\nrobins and blue-birds, who are beguiled by a few warm\\ndays into shivering through many a long, bleak storm.\\nYour correspondent was, later in the spring, one of a\\nparty to cruise about the mouth of the St. Johns and the\\nSisters Islands, and during the trip we landed on Fort\\nGeorge Island, where we were kindly driven about by\\nthe owner, who is engaged, with a number of gentlemen\\nof taste, in forming a little paradise. The island is not\\nlarge, about eleven hundred acres. The St. Johns out-\\nlet is on the south. Fort George Inlet on the north, and\\nthe Sisters Inlet on the west. Seaward a densely\\nwooded bluff, eighty feet high, shelters from the ocean", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "YACHTIXG ON THE ST. JOHNS. 177\\ngales, and beyond is a superb beach for driving, bathing,\\ncricket, or croquet. From the bhiU the view is of course\\nvery fine, and all the commerce of the St. Johns river\\npasses near at hand. The cleared part of the island has\\na palmetto avenue that has no equal, and the forests are\\nmore varied than any that are accessible by drives.\\nShell mounds supply material for fine roads, and many\\ndrives are being laid out that are wonderfully beautiful.\\nThere is but little of the dreary formal pine but huge\\nbearded oaks that are worthy of di uidical homage, and\\nstately palmettoes, cast deep wide shadows, while orange\\ntrees and flowering vines and shrubs fill in the scene with\\nluxuriant bloom and foliage. At St. Augustine the\\nbeaches are inaccessible to carriages, and distant by\\nboats, but iiere they are where one can turn to them\\nfrom the shaded avenues. The fishing is fine, to my\\nknowledge, as my fisherman took a thirty-five pound\\nbass from my skiff.\\nFor lingering places for late March, April, and May,\\nthese islands supply just what all feel the need of. 0\\narrangements are yet made for general accommodation,\\nbut plans are maturing that, when executed, will supply\\na new and valuable resort to already attractive Florida,\\nand more tempting to yachtmen than any now existing.\\nEeturning from this rambling disquisition upon drift-\\ning in one s own craft, we come back to our own for the\\ntime, and tie her to the wharf at Orange Bluff, above Lake\\nGeorge. Night has fallen, and we light a pitch-pine fire,\\nand cook thereon while enjoying the picturesque effect\\nof the rich, mellow light that illumines our boat against\\nthe dark river, and brings out here and there a tree in.\\nbright relief. Some hunters join us, light their pipes,\\nand take their nightcap from our flask. The stories of\\n8*", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "178\\nYACnTIKQ OK THE ST. JOHKS.\\na real backwoodsman arc always amusing, and awaken\\nthe common interest of all the craft. So it is late before\\nwe mature plans with our new friends for a hunt to-\\ngether, and they call their dogs and go to their cabin,\\nand we turn in in the yacht.\\nL. W. Ledyard.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "XX.\\nAMONG THE SEMmOLES.\\nBY the treaty of 1842, the few Seminoles remaining\\nin Florida after the war, were confined to the south-\\nern portion of the peninsula. There they still remain,\\nbetween two and three hundred in number, leading a\\npeaceful life, cultivating their fields, and hunting. They\\nare governed by two chiefs those around the southern\\nshore of Lake Okeechobee by Tustenuggee, and those\\neast of that great lake by Tiger Tailee. Their inter-\\ncourse with white men is limited to occasional trad-\\ning visits to Indian river and the Keys. Though they\\nhave existed as a nation for one hundred years, very lit-\\ntle is known regarding their language, customs, and\\nsocial life.\\nIt was with the avowed object of studying the Indian\\nin his native wilds that I left Indian river one beautiful\\nspring morning in 72. I had provided my elf with an\\nox-cart, oxen of course, and a guide thoug]] just what\\nhe was a guide of, and to where, I ve not satic^nctorily\\ndetermined to this day and the usual amount of hunters\\ntraps. There was also a colored individual, who had\\ncharge of the frying-pan and coffee pot. Well, we pro-\\ngressed favorably enough, till the second night out found\\nus fifteen miles from my camp on Indian river, thirty\\nmiles from Okeechobee, and further travel apparently", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "180 AMOXG THE SEMINOLES.\\nstopped bj a long line of cypress swiimp. So we camped\\non the Alpattiokee. Alpattiokee is Seminole for Alli-\\ngator creek. Game was abundant deer in herds on\\nthe savannas turkeys in flocks in the hammocks the\\nhalf-dry creek bed swarmed with iljis and heron of\\nevery hue, and alligators were in abundance. They\\ncrawled upon the banks x)f the creek, reposed upon its\\nsand bars, and swam its waters. They made night hid-\\neous witli their bellowings, and kept our mastiff in per-\\npetual dread of being devoured by assailing him while\\nhe reposed by our camp-fire. Every inducement for the\\nstay of hunter or naturalist was offered, and every tramp\\nand hunt would bring new additions of rare plants and\\nbirds to my collection.\\nWhile hunting along the various creeks I discovered\\nsigns of Indians in the sand of the dry creek-bed the\\nimpressions of moccasined feet on its banks a cabbage\\npalm with its terminal bud torn out and the leaves\\nscattered. An old Indian camp, strewn with bones of\\ndeer, turkey, and tortoise, showed that the place was a\\nfavorite hunting ground. There were fresh tracks of\\nthree Indian hunters, besides fainter ones of a woman\\nand child. One day Jim came in with the pickaninny s\\nplaythings an alligator tooth, two or three grotesquely-\\nshaped pieces of brier root, and a walnut. While we\\nwere examining them we heard a faint tinkling in the\\ndistance, and a preliminary reconnoisance revealed three\\nIndians approaching the ford in the creek near our camp.\\nAffecting to be emi)loyed with our duties, we only looked\\nup as they appeared, and they, taking no notice of us,\\nmarched on with heads erect till brought to a halt by\\nJim, who ran forward with extended liand and a hearty\\nHowdy. Then their swarthy faces displayed grins", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "a:moxg the se^iixoles. 181\\nwhich grew broad and loud as we summoned unhappy\\nTom to prepare a repast for the weary aborigines. Ee-\\nmoving from their pony a huge pack, upon which was a\\ntin kettle, which had made the tintinnabulation we had\\nheard, they hobbled his feet and sat down. While they\\nwere demolishing the huge pile of flapjacks which Jim\\nset before them, I had an opportunity for stud3dng their\\ndress and features.\\nTiger, the oldest, was about seyenty years old,\\nand had fought in the Seminole war. He was rather\\nabove the medium height, broad shouldered, massive\\narms, and legs like mahogany pillars, worn smooth and\\npolished by many a brush with thicket and brier. His\\nnose and lips indicated a trace of negro blood. His iron-\\ngray hair straggled over a greasy bandana bound about\\nhis temples. His broad shoulders were artistically\\ndraped in two ragged shirts of hickory, or striped\\nhomespun, the inner one about a foot longer than the\\nouter, and reaching nearly to his knees. A breech cloth\\nand moccasins completed his attire. Charley Osceola\\nwas a young man of twenty, claiming to be a descendant\\nof the famous chief Osceola. Over six feet high, with\\nbroad shoulders and finely-shaped limbs, erect and\\nstraight, he was my beau ideal of an Indian brave. His\\neyes were small, black, and keen, his voice was musical,\\nand he spoke in a firm, gentle manner that won my heart\\nat once. His hair was thick, coarse, and black, with the\\nchangeable purple of tlie raven s wing. It was shaved\\nclose at the sides, leaving a ridge on the crown, spread-\\ning toward the neck, and hanging in braids over the\\nshoulders. His dress was similar to Tiger s. The\\npickaninny was hardly worth a description. Each car-", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "182 AMONG THE SEMINOLES.\\nricd a rifle, a reserve supi)ly of bows and arrows, and\\na pouch for aminunition, etc.\\nThey obstinately refused to talk Yankaistahadka,\\nor Yankee talk, but used their own language. It was a\\nlong time before I could be made to understand that\\nshatokanowa humkin meant one dollar, the price of\\na set of bows and arrows, but after much labor I mas-\\ntered their system of numeration up to a thousand,\\nthougli I will now admit that I was much exercised at\\nchoj^kakolchokolin, and gave it up.\\nAVhile Osceola was making me some talipikahs, or\\nmoccasins, Jim was endeavoring to extract from Tiger\\nthe pro2-)er route to Lake Okeechobee, and whether we\\ncould reach it Avith our ox-cart. Jim had mingled with\\nthe Indians in his youth, and prided himself upon his\\naccomplishments in the manner of dealing with them,\\nand S2)eaking their language. Tiger sat upon his\\nhaunches beneath the sj)reading branches of a live-oak,\\nlooking like some ragged Turk.\\nJim (in a loud voice) Okeechobee you savez\\nTiger\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eiicaii (yes).\\nJivi Okeechobee me go walkah (oxen) go\\nYankaistahadka go hey\\nTiger Eucah walkah, me eatum good\\nJim No, you old fool (emphasized) you know\\nmore n you pertend walkah no slumpy, slumpy, no\\nsticky, icky in the mud that s what I mean.\\nTiger\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ilaigh\\nJim Oh, you old blackleg you consarned old\\nmanatee Can t you talk Istachatta (Indian), or do yer\\nmean to go back on yer native tongue Come, now,\\ntalk Yankee talk none of your dog-goned nonsense and\\nhog Latin. Okeechobee, me go; walkah go; cartah go;", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "AMOifG THE SEMINOLES. 183\\nIstaliista (mulatto) go no get stuckali, no have to come\\nbackali hey\\n[This in fearful tones, for Jim held, with many\\nothers, that you could make any foreigner understand,\\nprovided you spoke loud enough].\\nTiger Istalusta shookah, me give um pahlen\\nand he looked wistfully at Tom.\\nJim Ten hogs for that nigger There, I ll give\\nup the something heathenish old chattymico don t\\nknow Injun no more n a cracker\\nA peculiar twinkle of Tiger s eyes convinced me that\\nhe knew more n he pertended, but what his reasons\\nwere for baffling Jim s curiosity I didn t know till later.\\nThat night we left our camp on the Alpattiokee, and\\nmade our fire at the foot of the forked cabbage, on a\\nbranch of the Alpattie. The Indians accompanied us,\\nthough unasked. It seems that Tiger had divined Jim s\\nmeaning, and had determined to jorevent us from reach-\\ning our destination. He had concocted a fearful scheme\\nto prevent our departure it was to eat us out. I didn t\\nknow it at the time, or I shouldn t have aided them as\\nI did.\\nThe shades of night and the time for our evening re-\\npast drew near. In honor of our guests, Tom had\\ncooked just four times the usual quantity of flapjacks,\\nbesides our last steak of venison. I had devoured but\\none flapjack, and was about securing another, when, lo\\nthey were not. Tiger sat dignified and sad Charley\\ndignified and serious; Fistilokeen dignified and dirty.\\nThe corners of their mouths ran hog juice, their faces\\nand hands were unctuous with it, yet there they sat,\\npatiently waiting, sad and serious grieved even, judg-\\ning from their countenances.", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "184 AMONG THE SEMINOLES.\\nTom refused to cook any more.\\nIs-tii-liis-ta lazy; ho-la-wan-gus said Tiger.\\nThus taunted, Tom broke open our last package of\\nflour, and busied liimself, cursing the Indians the while,\\ntill they all united in a satisfied *me full! These\\nuntutored sons of the forest soon left us, with their\\ncustomary me hiepus j (me go), and we were not\\nvery sorry that, to use their own expression, they were\\nsui-cus-j (gone). From Tom s quarters, that night, I\\nheard a muttered blessing upon the Is-ta-chat-tas.\\nIn tlie morning they brought us a peace-offering of\\nvenison, and that night we had an alligator hunt by\\nmoonlight.\\nI shall never forget the weird aspect of the scene\\nspread out before us, as we assembled silently upon the\\nbanks of the creek. The creek bed could be traced\\nthrough the vast plain by the occasional clumps of\\npalms, till lost in the swamp far beyond. The bright\\nplumaged herons, that told of its meanderings as they\\nhovered over it by day, were now gone, and silence, as\\nof the grave, reigned over us. The creek-bed was dry\\nand exposed, excej^t at intervals there were great holes\\nfull of alligators rightly called alligator holes. Here,\\ncrowded together, they were patiently awaiting the set-\\nting in of the rainy season, which would set them free\\nfrom their narrow prisons.\\nThe gators seemed to have had notice of our\\ncoming, as, when we gathered upon the steep bank, not\\na head was visible. Ump, ump, ump! said Fistilo-\\nkeen, imitating the grunting of a young alligator. Soon\\na dozen knotty heads showed themselves, peering anxi-\\nously above the water. At the slightest motion they\\nwould disappear.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "AMOKG THE SEMIJ;rOLES. 185\\nTJmp, ump, ump, ump, ump\\nThe evil-looking eyes again appeared, and the round\\nnoses gave utterance to similar though louder sounds.\\nUp they came, silently, cautiously, till I counted twenty-\\nseven above the water of the little pond. Giving me\\nthe line, Jim launched the harpoon at the side of the\\nlargest. True as his aim always was the sharp head\\npierced the reptile s side in its most vulnerable part, just\\nbehind the fore-leg. A rush, a roar, as though all the\\nbulls of the prairie had united in one grand outburst,\\nand this king of Alpattiokee sped from one end to the\\nother of his small kingdom, making the water boil, and\\nleaving a bloody wake behind him. I have seen the\\ndolphin and porpoise cross and recross the bow of a\\nsteamer at full speed, I have seen the shark and bluefish\\nin their most desperate rushes, but it did seem to me,\\nstanding by that solitary creek in the soft moonlight, as\\nI slackened and tightened the line as the alligator alter-\\nnately sulked and darted, that the remarkable speed of\\nthose fishes was paralleled in the lightning-like rapidity\\nwith which that huge serrated tail clove the ^vater and\\nforced its owner onward. After a little while he got to\\nbe somewhat exhausted, and I passed the line to the rest\\nof the party and seized the axe, to be ready for him as he\\nwas drawn ashore. It was hard work even then to land\\nhim on the soft sand, and he would throw that huge\\ntail around till it nearly touched his nose, and snap his\\njaws till the night air resounded again. But, watching\\nmy chance, I sunk the axe deep in his skull, and his\\nstruggles ceased as the quivering paw^s clawed the sand\\nconvulsively and then relaxed. We finished eight more\\nbefore midnight. A ghastly spectacle they formed.", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "186 AMOXQ THE SEMIXOLES.\\nlying upon their backs, their wliito bellies and mailed\\nsides glistening in the moonlight.\\nUmph alpatah fight heap was the only excla-\\nmation our red brothers made.\\nA few days later we parted from our friends, and,\\nafter sending Jim into the river, I hired another guide\\nand set out for the Indian settlement. The man I now\\nhired was an old cow herder, having charge of several\\nhundred cattle which roamed in a half-wild state through\\nthe woods and over the vast prairies. His house was the\\nonly one between Indian river and Lake Okeechobee, a\\ndistance of nearly fifty miles. We left the cabin,\\nmounted upon two stallions trained for cattle hunting\\nand following narrow trails. Each horse carried a pair\\nof saddle-bags, bag of corn, pair of blankets, and a man.\\nEach man had a gun, pint cup, and big knife. Leaving\\nthe cabin early one day, we reached the Indian settle-\\nment late the next. Our only guide was a narrow trail\\nacross the vast plats, following dry creek-beds, through\\ncypress swamps and saw-grass jungles, beneath gigantic\\npines and through thick palmetto scrub. We followed\\nthis trail, made by the Indians, in a southwesterly direc-\\ntion till we struck the saw-grass bordering the Big\\nCypress, a belt of cypress swamp nearly forty miles in\\nlength. Through this swamp there was but one narrow,\\nblind trail, carefully concealed, lest the white man\\nshould find it. But my guide was an old tracker\\nduring the Seminole war, and struck it just where it en-\\ntered the swamp. Dismounting, we attempted to lead\\nour horses through. Bleeding and torn we emerged\\nfrom the saw-grass to enter the blackest looking swamp\\nit was ever my lot to behold. The tall cypress grew high\\nabove our heads, shutting out every ray of light long", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "amo:n g the semijs^oles. 187\\nvines and hooked briers hung from the limbs above and\\nfestooned every tree. The mud beneath was of the\\nblackest and softest stagnant pools of water, covered\\nwith green slime, gave hiding places to numberless alli-\\ngators and moccasin snakes, numbers of which unwound\\nthemselves from the gnarled cypress trees and wriggled\\nsilently away after darting at us their forked tongues.\\nWhile carefully avoiding these noxious places a long vine\\nwould come athwart my horse s back, sweeping blankets,\\nsaddle-bags and all into the mud. To describe the rage\\nof my guide at such a juncture would be impossible. I\\nwas mad, but he was even more so, and swore and\\nstormed in a way that was perfectly frightful, caus-\\ning the innocent snakes and alligators to flee in ter-\\nror still farther into the black fastnesses of the swamp.\\nMy rage died away as his increased, for I was convinced\\nthat black as was the picture, he was doing it justice.\\nAt every leap our poor beasts sank above their knees, and\\nit required much dodging to lead them through the nar-\\nrow apertures and escape being struck by their fore feet.\\nNever was daylight hailed more joyfully than when we\\nemerged from the tangled thicket and at last reached\\nsolid ground. The Big Cypress was passed, and we\\nwere in the Indian country.\\nA few miles over a level prairie and we saw the first\\nhabitation. A little further, and we caught sight of a\\nsquaw running rapidly to apprise the men at work in the\\nswamps of our arrival. They couldn t have chosen a\\nlocality more favorable to their mode of living than this.\\nA swamp bounded it on the north and east, and a forest\\nof pines on the south and west. The scene presented\\nwas one of peaceful rest and happiness. What wonder\\nthat the Seminole fought for his chosen land as he did", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "188 AMOIS^G THE SEMIKOLES.\\nTlie meadow lurk trilled his clear notes from the grass,\\nwhere, also, we heard the mellow whistle of the quail.\\n\\\\Vood})eckers and paroquets Hew screaming by, and the\\nwood ibis winged his silent way overhead.\\nSoon the entire population came forth to meet us,\\nwith the exception of the women, and Ave were welcomed\\nto the village. There were sixteen shanties grouped\\ntogether, with that of the chiefs a little way off. Four\\nposts supported a pitched roof, thatched with palmetto\\nleaves. The shanty was open at the sides and ends a\\nraised platform of logs the whole length and breadth\\nwas used to sleep upon by night, and as a table and\\nchairs, etc., by day. AVe were much annoyed by the\\ndogs, who would come about us examining everything\\nwe had. They were nasty little curs, most of them,\\nwho would creep carefully up to us, with noses extended\\nand tails between their legs, and who would scurry away\\nat the least motion. I am prepared to vouch for the\\nstatement of the old sailor, Romans, who, in 1770, says\\nTliey (the Creeks) are very fond of dogs, insomuch\\nas never to kill one out of a litter and it is not uncom-\\nmon in the nation to see a dog, very lean, and so sensible\\nof his misfortune as to seek a wall or post for his support\\nbefore venturing to bark. (Another ^old joke). I\\nmention things in their natural order of affection in the\\nIndian estimation dog, hog, squaw, and pickaninny.\\nThe hogs were black, as all Florida hogs are, and nu-\\nmerous. The children were brown, and numerous. The\\ngirls and young squaws were much superior to their\\ndegraded sisters of the west in ])oint of beauty and\\ncleanliness. Of medium heiglit, with small haiuls and\\nfeet and well-slia])ed limbs. Their heads were small and\\nwell-shaped eyes black and lustrous nose small and", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "AMONG THE SEMI]SrOLES. 189\\nstraight mouth small and full-lipped. Their hair was\\nlong, black, and abundant. The older women were less\\nprepossessing, as older women usually are. All, how-\\never, had the same low, musical voice, excepting the old\\nhags and habitual tobacco chewers. The women wore a\\nshort cape over the shouldeis, and a petticoat. These\\ntwo articles, with a profusion of beads, completed their\\nattire, with, of course, moccasins. The only exception to\\nthis style was a young widow, who, being in mourning,\\nwas allowed to wear but a single apron, and was forbid-\\nden by their law to leave camp for two years. The\\nsquaws are very careful of their master s health. Picka-\\nninnies under twelve, or thereabouts, were in a state\\nof nature boys over twelve, and under sixteen, wore a\\nshirt, and girls a petticoat women as described. Upon\\ngreat occasions both sexes ornament themselves with\\nbeads, ribbons, and silver.\\nAt first the maidens were coy and bashful, but they\\nsoon overcame their natural diffidence, and sweetly\\ninsinuated that ichee (tobacco), or on-mee (whis-\\nkey), would not be unacceptable.\\nAfter a short stay at the village, we all went over to\\nIndian Parker s cornfield, a mile away in the swamp.\\nParker, his wife and children, were all at work when we\\narrived, but soon washed themselves, and set before us\\ngreat milky ears of corn, roasted in the ashes. He had\\ncorn over six feet high, pumpkins, beans, etc., all grow-\\ning finely this in April. N ext, we visited Tiger at his\\nplantation. I met with a warm reception, and Avas\\nintroduced to his squaw. In the course of our conver-\\nsation he said You hum-bux-j I told him I\\nthought not I never had to my present knowledge.\\nHe then repeated more earnestly, You humbuxj", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "190 AMOXQ THE SEMIX0LE3.\\nThis time I got ycxccI, and told liim I wasn t. A third\\nluimbuxj, accompanied ])y a gcstnre, directed my\\nattention to a small i)almctto shanty, beneath which\\nwere three iron })ots, around which were three hungry\\nIndians, and from wliich (the pots, not the shanty) they\\nAvere hunibuxjing after the most approved style. As\\nI was extremely hungry I humhuxjed. Here was an\\nopportunity Tiger had eaten me out at Alligator\\ncreek I would noAV pay him back in kind. I looked\\nfor my guide he had disappeared. I unbuckled my\\nbelt, laid aside my revolver, and joined the band of revel-\\nlers. How romantic, thought I Uo be sure, things\\naren t just as I d like to have them, but then, when\\nyou re in Rome, etc. The pot nearest me contained a\\ndirty looking liquid, which, as near I could remember,\\nnot having seen any for six months, looked exactly like\\ndish-water, boiled over twice, with the dish-rag left in.\\nIt was corn and water boiled. A huge wooden spoon\\nwas employed to convey this delectable nourishment to\\nits proper receptacle the mouth. The bowl of the\\naforesaid spoon was as big as a baby s head, and while I\\nwas wondering how twas used, a shock-headed urchin\\ninserted it, drew it forth full, elevated it till the handle\\npointed toward the zenith, when presto the dish-water\\ndisappeared, the spoon was returned to the pot with a\\nswoop of satisfaction, and Injun number two proceeded\\nto do likewise. Number three did even so, and I was\\nexpected to ditto. I was hungry I knew it I d eaten\\nnothing but the roast corn since sunrise, and had ridden\\nnear thirty miles that day. But, strangely, my appetite\\nwas gone. I forgave Tiger for eating all my Ilai)jacks\\nI promised myself to forget it. After all, he hadn t\\ndone so very badl}^ But the eyes of all were upon me.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "amo:n g the semi2s oles. 191\\nI must eat, or lose my influence. Gently I grasped the\\nspoon, coyly I fished for a few kernels of corn, and very\\nlittle of the dish-water. I shut my eyes, opened my\\nmouth, shuddered, gulped lo, twas done The sec-\\nond pot contained pieces of boiled meat about an inch\\nsquare, which proved very good eating. So, inserting\\nmy fingers, a la Indian, I drew forth a piece and ate it.\\nThe third vessel contained about thirty feet of sausage,\\nlooking so natural and life-like that I instinctively re-\\ncoiled. One of my brother revellers would seize one end\\nof the membranous rope, and, after storing away as\\nmuch as his mouth would contain, would sever by a\\ndexterous cut the adipose tissue and pass it to the next.\\nWhen my turn came I begged to be excused, and I ve\\nnever hankered for sausage since.\\nI stuck to pot No. 2 my appetite returned. I yet\\ncherished revengeful feelings toward Tiger, and did my\\nbest. The meat was tender and juicy moreover, it had\\na delicious flavor that I never had found pork possessed\\nof. Of course it was pork it wasn t venison, nor bear,\\nnor coon and I vowed I would get the receipt, and that\\nthe next stray pig should be offered up. To be sure\\nthat it was a pig I said to Charley, imitating the\\nIndian manner, Um good too much Shoko-\\ncalika A negative shake of the head, and a single\\nword, Efab (dog), terminated the rej)ast. In my\\nsleep that night came visions of fearful Indian curs,\\nchopped into small pieces, yet having the power to bark\\nand bite.\\nAs a special honor, I was assigned the chief s shanty\\nto sleep in that night, he being away. It differed in no\\nway from the rest, and probably the round logs which\\nmade my bed were just as hard as the others.", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "192 AMONG THE SEMTNOLES.\\nThe next clay we visited tlie corn fields, and, a rain\\ncoming np, accoini)anied Parker and Tiger to their slian-\\nties. My guide having offered his horse to Parker s\\nsquaw, I couhl do no less than offer mine to the old\\nsquaw, wliicli Tiger accepted in behalf of himself. I\\nhoped he would break his neck. It was an unique pro-\\ncession that wound through the shady cypress swamps\\nand over the prairie. First there were Parker s two\\ndaughters young ladies of sixteen and seventeen respec-\\ntively who had captured one of papa s colls, and,\\nmounted upon its back man-fashion, led the cavalcade.\\nThey seemed to be enjoying themselves, and their musi-\\ncal laughter would come floating back at every leap and\\nkick of tlieir half-broken steed. Next came Parker s\\nwife, astride my guide s pony, with a solemn-looking\\npappoose on her back, holding up her scanty skirts with\\none hand, while with the other she guided the beast.\\nNext came Tiger, witli my rubber blanket over his head,\\na tin kettle on one arm, an iron pot on the other, and a\\nlap full of corn. He didn t see the comical figure he cut,\\nbut treated the whole matter as a thing of serious mo-\\nment. Parker, a host of pickaninnies, eleven dogs, a\\nyoung colt, and a hog or two came next. My guide and\\nI came hist. The procession started the girls had\\nstripped, and wTre clinging to the pony and eacli other\\nfor dear life. We had gone but a few rods before the\\npony suddenly elevated his heels, hmding the girls a\\nconfused vision of arms and legs rods away in the mud.\\nAVith another flourish of his heels, and a snort of defi-\\nance, he then scoured away over the plain. That started\\nthe rest my guide s pony vainly strove to throw his\\nburden. Tiger had his hands particularly full as the bay\\nstallion sped awa}^ with the blanket flapping and pail", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "AMON Q THE SEMINOLES. 193\\nrattling. I shall never forget the desperate expression\\nof Tiger s face as he went off, clinging to the horse and\\nshouting broken fragments of Seminole, such as Che-\\nla-koa (horse) ho-la-wan-gus jad) cha-high-wagh\\n(squaw), ho-la-wan-gus dam The colt now went for\\nthe scene, upsetting a whole line of dogs, and extorting\\nprofane exclamations from the patient Parker. After\\nwe had reached the shanties they came in, one after\\nanother, and, remoying their wet garments (such as had\\nany), we squatted around the cheerful blaze of pine\\nknots, placed Indian fashion, with the ends toward the\\ncentre of the flame.\\nAccording to promise, Charley was to pilot me to\\nLake Okeechobee, but as seyeral days elapsed, and no\\noffer was made, I became impatient, and anxiously\\nsought for information regarding it. The only satis-\\nfactory replies I received were as to its size\\nOkeechobee, achiska pahleorstein, heap long achis-\\nka pahlehokolin.\\nThis intelligence was very gratifying, as it settled\\nmany misgivings I had indulged in\\nTeed Beveklt.", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "I\\nXXL\\nIN THE CYPRESS SWAMPS\\nLAKE OKEECHOBEE is almost as little known\\n1 now as it was one hundred years ago, when it\\nrejoiced in the name of Mayaco. Then everything mys-\\nterious and inexplicable w^as referred to Lake ^Liyaco.\\nThe source of the river St. Johns, even now unsettled,\\nwas said to be there. Another river, the St. Lucie, had\\nits rise there, and strange tales were told of the wonder-\\nful lake by a Spanish captive, who reached it by this\\nriver. The wonderful sacred vulture of Bartram, so\\nvividly described by that naturalist, was said to be a res-\\nident of Okeechobee, aiid hasn t been seen since its first\\ndescription, a century ago. With a few exceptions,\\nduring the Seminole war, Lake Okeechobee has not been,\\nvisited by white men. There is no portion of our great\\nwestern domain of the same area so completely unknown\\nto us. There the Seminole is said to have his best plan-\\ntations and choicest hunting grounds. In the secure\\nfastnesses of the Everglades he may bid defiance to our\\nlargest armies, and laugh at every effort to secure him.\\nWhen I found myself within six miles of the great\\nlake, I thought that I should soon penetrate the dark\\nbelt of cypress that surrounded it, and disclose some of\\nthe wonders locked Avithin its mysterious shores. I had\\nthe promise from my Seminole guide that he would fetch", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "IJT THE CYPRESS SWAMPS. 195\\nme to its shores ere another sun had set. Making every\\npreparation, the morning agreed upon I sought my\\nguide. To my surprise, he refused to go, alleging, as\\nhis only reason, that Tiger wouldn t let him. All my\\npersuasions were useless. Offers of revolver, howie\\nknife, and money were alike unavailing. Tiger was\\nchief in the head chief s absence, and could not be dis-\\nobeyed. The reason of Tiger s veto, as I afterward\\nascertained, was that I had not counselled him first, and\\nhe felt affronted. At last a happy thought struck me.\\nWould he go within a mile of the lake Yes, he would\\ndo that and we were soon on the trail leading westward.\\nWe passed through a small settlement of shanties, the\\ninhabitants of which had gone on a hunt, leaving all\\ntheir household goods stortd away beneath the palmetto\\nthatch. Over broad prairies we travelled without seeing\\nan indication of life, and through pine barrens without\\na single animal visible all had been killed, probably, by\\nthe Indians. Soon we left the dense swamp that circled\\nthe edge of the piney woods, and struck a wide stretch\\nof jDrairie extending north and south as far as the eye\\ncould reach. West we could see the tall cypress said to\\nborder the lake. Just as we reached a little clump of\\npalmettoes, about midway the prairie, a thunder-storm\\nsuch as only Florida is capable of burst upon us. For\\nan hour the flood came down, and drenched us and our\\ngoods, although we were covered with the broad leaves\\nof the palmetto.\\nSoon it was over, and the sun came out, and there\\nwas a solemn hush, broken only by a low, sullen roar, like\\nthe roll of the sea, coming from the west. I knew with-\\nout other explanation what that was. It was the break-\\ning of the surf upon the shore of Lake Okeechobee. So", "height": "3484", "width": "2178", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "196 IK THE CYPRESS SWAMPS.\\nnear, yet lilvcly to remain as unseen as though I was a\\nlumdred miles away, for my Indian p^nide refused to go\\nfurtlier, and to seek a trail was an almost hopeless task.\\nNo present would tempt him no mount of persuasion\\nmove him. So we left him to return to his camp, and\\npursued our way toward the north. All that afternoon\\nwe hunted for a trail that would take us to the lake\\nbut none was found, and so we made our fire beneath a\\nlone clump of pines at night, having accomplished\\nnothing. Over thirty years before had the troopers,\\nhunting the Seminoles, camped in this very place. There\\nexisted here but one trace of civilization, and that was\\nthe old wagon trail over which the supplies for Fort Van\\nSwearengen and the lower forts were drawn. Though\\nunused since the Indian war, except by some settler flee-\\ning from the dread of conscription during the rebellion,\\nit still showed to the experienced e3 e where the wheels\\nhad worn. How strange that impression should remain\\nso long Though at first unable to discover the slightest\\ntrace of it, I could soon follow its course almost instinc-\\ntively, as sometimes the evidences of its existence were so\\nindefinite that I could hardly tell what it was that showed\\nit. It might be aAVorn palmetto root, a different kind of\\ngrass, or a slight depression in the retentive soil some-\\ntimes, seeing it rods away, a close examination near\\nwould fail to reveal its presence. Next morning we\\nfollowed the trail till it lost itself in a swamp, and tlien\\nwe struck the piney woods, intending to swing around till\\nwe could fetch Fort Bassenger, on the Kissimee river.\\nOn and on we went, till our passage seemed stopped by a\\nblack, deep creek, overhung with dark cypress, and\\nswarming with alligators. This creek was no doubt flow-\\ning directly into Okeechobee, but, as much as I wanted to", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "I5T THE CYPRESS SWAMPS 197\\ngo with it, I was powerless for the want of a boat. There\\nwas nothing for us but to cross it, though we were\\nobliged to swim with the criticising gaze of dozens of\\nalligators fixed upon us, and dodge fallen trees and\\ntangled vines as best we could. Beyond was another\\nswamp, and still beyond this a broad stretch of blessed\\nprairie. Over this we cantered for miles, then through\\ndeep woods, now through swamps, belly deep in mud,\\nand still no signs of the signal smokes that were to indi-\\ncate the hunter s camp at Fort Bassenger. Before night\\nit dawned upon us that we were lost. Now, so long as\\na man will fight off the conviction that hois lost, there is\\nhope that he may eventually find his way out. But my\\nguide, no sooner than this idea had dawned ujDon him,\\ngave himself over to the most unreasonable of actions\\nand doings. Heretofore I trusted in him implicitly, but\\nI now saw that his reason was gone for the time, and my\\nheart sank. Yielding to my persuasions, he camj^ed\\nin a palmetto clump, and we ate our last biscuit and\\npiece of pork. We had saved this same pork to the last,\\nhoping that we could induce some unwary Indian to ac-\\ncept it, in lieu of more palatable food. But no Seminole\\nwas so accommodating, and we chewed it in silence.\\nThe rind was an inch thick, and had the appearance of\\namber. I sliced my piece thin and bolted it, and when\\nmy guide said it was six jears old I didn t raise a doubt.\\nIn the morning we awoke refreshed, and heading our\\nhorses northward we set out. Notwithstanding his age\\nand experience, my guide allowed his fears to control\\nhim, and would not sto^o to secure one of the many deer\\nthat grazed about us, for fear that Vv^e should not reach\\nour destination, and should have to pass another night\\nin the woods.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "198 IX THE CYPRESS SWAMPS.\\nToward noon wc cnicrn^cd nj^oii the Kissimmeeprnirie,\\nand then could tell with tolerable certainty the course to\\ntake. Abandoning- all hope of reachin the river, we\\nstruck for the old military road, hoping to reach it\\nbefore night. Faint and weary as we were, lie would\\nnot rest, but pressed insanely on, with but one idea to\\nreacli a settler s cabin before night set in. As for me I\\ndid not care. I was at the mercy of my guide, and\\ncould do nothing with him in his present state.\\nTo turn my back upon Lake Okeechobee, and give\\nover all hope of seeing it, required a hard struggle. But\\nI had to yield to necessity, and so every hour saw us\\nfurther and further away. Toward noon we stopped at\\na brackish pool to quench our thirst, and here I ate my\\ndinner, though I didn t mean to, as it consisted of two\\nsmall fish, which went down alive in the muddy water\\nand met an untimely death. On and on we rushed.\\nThe deer sprang u]) from their noonday rest and skip-\\nped away, with their white banners waving tantalizingly\\nnear. Sand-hill cranes flew screaming from under our\\nvery noses. Thousands of cattle now appeared dotting\\nthe prairie. In the midst of plenty we had passed\\nnearly twenty-four hours without food. In the after-\\nnoon I grew weary of the continual striking of my sad-\\ndle-bags against my legs, and lightened ship by throw-\\ning over the heaviest of my treasures. A bottle of\\narsenic went first, then five pounds of shot, a lot of car-\\ntridges, and everything not actually necessary\\nThe finder will be suitably rewarded.\\nJust before Ave reached the trail we were seeking, a\\nbeautiful fox sprang up, and, stopping a minute too long\\nto look at t}ie first men he probably ever met, I gave\\nhim a fiying shot from the saddle that tumbled him over.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "IN THE CYPRESS SWAMPS. 199\\nThen I was sorry that I had killed the animal for mere\\nsport, and vowed I d not do it again. Yet so strong is\\nthe instinct that, riding within forty yards of a deer\\noffering too beautiful a shot to resist I handed my gun\\nto my guide and let him shoot. But he didn t hit him,\\nand I wished I d fired instead. As the sun dipped below\\nthe horizon we rode out upon the old military road that\\ncrosses the peninsula from the Atlantic to the Gulf.\\nWe struck it near the site of old Fort Dunn, the parade\\nground of which is still in tolerable condition, and can-\\ntering a mile or two further soon sighted the settler s\\nhouse, and were happy.\\nThough this man owned hundreds of cattle, and\\ncounted as his all the acres he desired, he had nothing\\nin the larder but a few sweet potatoes but he freely\\nshared those few. After a man has fasted twenty-four\\nhours, buttermilk and sweet potatoes will fill a void\\nacceptably. That night we slept beneath a roof, and I\\nshared a bed with four vigorous boys and about three\\nmillions of very active fleas. Yet, though the fleas pos-\\nsessed uncommon agility, and showed decidedly plile-\\nbotomous disj)ositions, and though there was music in the\\nair, and everywhere else, from the joint and several\\nefforts of the various noses in the room, and though the\\nboys aforesaid procured a corner in blankets, and left\\nme open to the attacks of several very bloodthirsty bands\\nof mosquitoes, sle])t. And it was sweet potatoes and\\nbuttermilk that awoke me in the morning. Thirty\\nmiles we accomplished before dark that day, riding\\nacross the St. Johns prairies, which fairly swarmed with\\nturkeys, and over the Alapattie flats, where we found\\nthe creeks, so dry when we left, full to overfloAving.\\nWhat was my surprise, when I reached my guide s cabin,", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "200 IX THE CYPRESS SWAMPS.\\nto fiiiil Indian Parker tlicrc with a lot of deer skins,\\nwliicli I liad bought, paid for, and left since then giving\\nup all hope of seeing them. Such is Seminole honesty\\nWhat white man would have ridden sixty miles to\\nrestore another s goods I knew of one who wouldn t.\\nFred Beverly.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "XXII.\\nCRUISING ALONG SHORE.\\nIN Florida, eighty miles due south of St. Augustine,\\nlies an immense lagoon of salt water, called by the\\nold Spaniards Rio d Ais, by the Indians Aisa Natcha,\\nand by Floridians Indian river. Called by whatever\\nname it may be, it is the most wonderful portion of that\\nwonderful State. Wonderful for its bland and genial\\nclimate wonderful for its birds, beasts, and fishes\\nwonderful, above all, for its people, who live in such a\\nstate of indolence as causes a Northerner to shudder.\\nSituated mainly below the frost line, many tropical\\nfruits reach perfection beneath its burning sun. The\\nlime, lemon, guava, banana, pineapple, citron, and, of\\ncourse, the orange, in perfection. The climate here is\\npeculiarly adapted to the needs of the consumptive, and\\nhe can live here for years in apparent health after other\\nclimates have been tried in vain.\\nPeojDle who have tried California, Minnesota, and\\nthe various resorts in the Old World, have pronounced\\nIndian river in advance of them all. The difficulties\\nattending a trip here, and the insufficient accommoda-\\ntions, have prevented its advantages its natural advan-\\ntages from becoming generally known. The steamer\\nup the St. Johns, from Jacksonville to Salt Lake, a\\ndistance of two hundred and seventy-five miles, and a\\n9*", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "202 CRUISIXG ALOXG SHORE.\\nportage of six miles will bring the traveller to the banks\\nof Indian river, at Harvey s, or Sand Point, where boat\\nand guides may be hired down the river to Jupiter, one\\nhundred and thirty miles further. The cost of transpor-\\ntation from Xew York to Sand Point will be about sixty\\ndollars. The visitor had better camp, and bring with\\nhini such articles of need as a camper-out appreciates.\\nAn outfit may be purchased at Jacksonville at a trifling\\nadvance on New York prices. It was thus that I pre-\\npared to enjoy the pleasures of Indian river. The\\nmiddle of March found me waiting at Harvey s for a\\nfavorable wind down the river.\\nThough the sand that lined the many bays was white\\nas snow, and the palms, with their columnar trunks and\\ndark green fronds, made graceful pictures, I was tired\\nof gazing upon the same ones day after day, and finally\\npersuaded my boatman to visit the upper portion of the\\nriver before descending. A north-west wind had driven\\nthe water upon the opposite shore two days before, and\\nleft his little boat high and dry, with fifty feet of sand\\nflats intervening between her and navigation. But the\\nwind again hauled southward, deluging the western\\nshore with returning waters and enabling us to get\\nunder way. As this wind was contrary for a down-river\\ntri|^ we headed for a different quarter, purposing to\\nvisit tlie largest orange grove in Florida, so said to be,\\nand the best. Ten miles sailing in a north-easterly\\ndirection brouglit us to the landing. Did you, reader,\\never inhale the fragrance of a cluster of orange blos-\\nsoms You remember the exquisite penetrating per-\\nfume. Well, add to the cluster tens of thousands more\\nthe efflorescence of two thousand trees. The subtle\\nodor enveloped our boat in a cloud of incense, evoked", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "CRUISING alo:n G shore. 203\\nb}^ the sun and wafted to our senses by a gentle breeze.\\nA mile away we were made aware of the existence of the\\ngrove, yet hidden from ns by a circling belt of palms.\\nTwo thousand trees, in long straight rows, their glossy\\ngreen tops flecked with immaculate blossoms, a carpet\\nof emerald sjoangled with snowy stars. In the centre of\\nthe grove we found the residence of the proprietor.\\nCaptain Dummit a log-cabin with palmetto-thatched\\nroof. Think of a log-cabin in the Garden of Eden\\nBut this is but one of the worthy captain s peculiarities.\\nThere is a mystery surrounding him which he never\\nvouchsafes to break. Even in his cups I should say\\nbuckets never a word is uttered regarding his seclu-\\nsion from the world. Known far and near as a hard\\ndrinker, he is ever the same well-bred gentleman, be he\\ndrunk or sober.\\nHe and Tom R. once started -down the river to\\nperform some work at the lower grove. Before setting\\nout he gave Tom $20 to jiurchase provisions with.\\nAforesaid provisions are purchased according to his,\\nand, may be, the captain s fancy: Whiskey, $17.50;\\nhard tack, ^^jest to chaw on, you know, $1.50; pork,\\n$1. Two bottles of whiskey Tom adds on his own\\naccount. The captain also laid in. a choice stock.\\nThus armed they set sail, burning with an unquenchable\\nardor for work.\\nThere s old Bob twould be kinder mean to pass\\nhim without a smile, says Tom.\\nThat s so let s land.\\nThey land they smile the smiles broaden into\\na grin, and the proposition to call the entire male popula-\\ntion of that section, and have a reg lar time, is hailed\\nwith universal acclamation. Times, that is reg lar", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "204 CEUISIN-G ALON-Q SHORE.\\ntimes, are mncli in vogue on Indian river, to the great\\nabsor})tion and waste of Time, the old father. It was\\nratlier np-hill work drinking tlie old captain drunk, but\\nthe Southern people are always earnest in a worthy\\ncause, and he was finally deposited on a heap of oyster\\nshells, dead gone. In the morning he said to Tom,\\nI presume I was a little intoxicated last evening\\nYou were just that, and the dog-gondest, too, that\\nI ever see\\nWell, it s- no use working with whiskey around\\npass us the bottle.\\nIt s all gone\\nGone then we d better be sailing for Sand Point,\\nfor I m d d if I ll w^ork without Avhiskey.\\nThis was related to me while I camped near the\\ngrove at night, and I give it as I tliink of it, trusting\\nthe reader will pardon the digression.\\nTwenty-five years ago Captains 0. and D. found the\\ngrove while hunting. A judicious grafting of the wild\\ntrees procured, in a few years, bountiful returns. The\\ncrops have sometimes been enormous seven hundred\\nthousand in a single year. Over half a million of the\\nlargest, juiciest oranges in America Camping there\\nthat night, it was noon the next day before a fair down-\\nriver wind came along. AVhen it did come a storm came\\nwith it, and we departed, accompanied by the flash of\\nliglitning and the heavy rolling of thunder. After\\nrounding Black Point, our little craft drove straight on,\\nheading with the river south-south-east, passing Sand\\nPoint, Joyner s, Jones Point, and all the other points on\\nthe western shore, six miles of water intervening. We\\ndraw near the western shore, and sail along its higli pine-\\ncovered banks, driving before the furious wind with only", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "CRUisiXG alo:n-g shore. hos-\\ntile jib set. Night comes and finds us still sailing. The\\nmoon struggles feebly witli the clouds that threaten to\\nconceal her, and reveals the captain still at the helm.\\nThe waves beat against his back, as he sits in grim\\nsilence, enduring their butletings with far more patience\\nthan my infrequent questions. It is late at night ere he\\ncomes to anchor in Elbow creek, and finds a slight shel-\\nter from the tempest. Thankful that, though wet, I\\ncould not get wetter, as the rain had ceased, I crawled\\nunder the sail, wrapped myself in my blanket, and fell\\nasleep. The captain never slept aboard, so he waded\\nashore and turned in on the Eeach. The usual sleep\\nof the camper-out was granted me, long and unbroken,\\nand I was only awakened in the morning by the fall of\\nan oar.\\nElbow creek, with its fantastically worn coquina\\nbanks, is selected as the Indian river terminus of a canal\\nto unite the St. Johns and this lagoon. Lake Washing-\\nton being the end of navigation on the St. Johns, six\\nmiles away. Though I don t take stock in the company,\\nI. doubt not its utility, if navigation on the St. Johns will\\nwarrant its being kept open all the year. A sail of five\\nmiles across the river brought us to a jutting headland\\nof coquina, supporting a scanty soil, covered with a rich\\ngrowth of beautiful palms, tall century plants, and Sisal\\nhemp. Two crescent-shaped bays, one facing north, the\\nother south, curved inland, their shores a firm, snowy\\nsand. Landing, I soon discovered a small grove of\\norange trees, being guided to them by their fragrant\\nblossoms. Here I discovered the only evidence of civili-\\nzation I had seen this side of the river, an object that\\nonce must have caused joy in the household, and sad-\\nness for its loss. K piano, covered with a few boards, its", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "206 CRtTISIK-G ALOXG SHORE.\\nlegs shattorod, and its keys rattling in tlic wind, stood\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0where once had been a lionie. It was the old story of\\nwar s desolation and mined fortune tliat accounted for\\nthis lone memento of better days in a forest five miles\\nfrom the nearest house.\\nAt this place is the southern end of Merritt s Ishmd,\\nvvhich parts Indian river, the portion east, between the\\nisland and the coast, being known as Banana river, and\\nthat west retaining its old name. Cape Canaveral is not\\nfar distant, where lives the best man on the river. Cap-\\ntain Burnliam, keeper of the lighthouse there. From\\nthe lighthouse down I counted six wrecks, thrown upon\\nthe shore in a September gale. Making a fire from drift-\\nwood, we soon had flapjacks and potatoes enough for our\\ninner man. It was liere that I received a lesson in clean-\\nliness I shall not soon forget. I had omitted to provide\\nmyself with a dish-cloth, and while the captain was\\ncursing my heedlessness, I went off for some Spanish\\nmoss in lieu thereof. AVhat was my surprise, upon re-\\nturning, to find the plates dry, and apparently clean.\\nWhere did you find a cloth\\nOh, I took my handkerchief\\nNow, the kerchief was the captain s only article in\\nthat line a very dirty and greasy bandana, which, be-\\nsides doing duty in a nasal way, was frequently applied\\nto his watery optics, making its cleanliness a matter of\\ndoubt. When I remonstrated with him he declared I\\nwas the dirtiest cuss he ever see, and inquired sar-\\ncastically if I thought he was a fool. The cause of his\\nwrath, I afterward ascertained, was not my objections,\\nbut that I had overlooked the fact of his Avashing it,\\nwhich he had done in the drinking Avater bucket. The\\nnative ijoodness of his character was made manifest that", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "CRUISTKG ALOXG SHORE. 207\\nnight, when, after keeping silent all clay, he extended\\nhis hand witli the remark he guessed twas all right.\\nAbout fifty-fiye miles from Harvey s is Turkey creek,\\nwhere is the only banana plantation of any extent on the\\nriver. The huge plants, with their broad green leaves\\nand curiously formed fruit and flowers, were beautiful\\nand picturesque. They contrasted favorably with the\\nstunted, frost-bitten j)lants I had seen on the St. Johns\\nin December. This lagoon is ahead of all northern\\nFlorida in everything fruit, climate and game. Oranges\\ngrow here in three years from the seed ahead of St.\\nJohns by at least two 3 ears. There is almost no frost,\\nand no disease peculiar to the region, while game of all\\ndescriptions line its shores. We spent two days and\\nnights wind-bound at St. Sebastian creek, during which\\ntime we visited the coast near the place where, in 1710,\\na fleet of Spanish galleons were driven ashore and lost.\\nWe found no pistareens, which Romans tells us were\\nwashed up as late as 1770, but found j^lenty of deer and\\nbear tracks, and pelican and ducks upon the river side\\nwithout number. The sea grape and cocoa plum grow\\nhere in profusion. The former is a stout shrub, rapidly\\nincreasing in size as it nears the tropics, with a broad,\\nheart-shaped, satin leaf. The fruit of tlie cocoa plum is\\nabout as large as the common plum, with ii white flesh\\nand red skin. It has a pleasant taste. The ]ngh sand-\\nridge, separating river from ocean, is less th:.n three\\nhundred yards across here, and thickly covered with\\nscrub palmetto and gay colored flowers. Standing on\\nits highest portion I can trace the sj^arkling length of\\nIndian river and look upon the waters of the Atlantic\\nat the same moment. For seventy-five miles one can\\nhear the ocean surf as he sails upon the river. The high", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "208 CRUISIN a ALONG snoRE.\\nbluffs near St. Sebastian have been selected as the site\\nfor a hotel, but are not well suited for such a purpose.\\nNear here is Barker s Bluff, named after a man who lost\\nhis life there killed by the Indians, at the same time\\nmy friend, Major Kussell, lost an arm. A few miles\\naway is an island draped in white, its trees seemingly\\ncovered with snow, a circling flight of birds hovering\\nover it, the water around dotted with hundreds of dusky\\nobjects, and the same dusky forms coming and going\\nwith no cessation in their flight.\\nThat s Pelican Island, said the captain. As we\\napproached, the dark objects grew more distinct, and\\nassumed definite shapes. The island of about two acres\\nwas covered with mangroves, long since dead every\\ntree loaded down with nests great, bulky affairs, two\\nfeet ifbross and flat. Every tree and nest was completely\\ncovered with the limy excrement of the birds^ gi^ ii^g the\\nisland its snowy appeUrance at a distance. Each nest\\ncontained two nearly fledged young ones, all uniting in\\ngiving utterance to the most diabolical and soul-rending\\nsounds, w^hicli, added to the cawing of fish, crows in\\nsearch of eggs, and the screaming of eagles overhead,\\ngave one as good an idea of pandemonium as mortal man\\ncan conceive. Tliough standing close together, the cap-\\ntain and I had to shout our loudest to be heard. The\\nground was covered with young birds huddled together\\nin fright. The eagles and vultures had committed great\\nhavoc, and from branches susj^ended and stretched upon\\nthe ground, w^re the decomposing carcasses of old and\\nyoung, wliich, added to the decaying fish, filled the air\\nwuth odors not of Araby. Tlie old pelicans were flying\\noverhead in clouds, occasionally alighting on some remote", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "CBUISIKG ALOKG SHORE. 209\\ntree to feed the young with fish, which they brought to\\nthem in their pouches.\\nTwo months later, in May, I found the young had\\nflown, and every nest with a complement of large white\\neggs. There are two species of pelican on our Atlantic\\ncoast the white and brown. This was the brown its\\nplumage of mottled white and gray on the back, dark\\nsides and breast, with a rich yelyety brown neck and\\nwhite head, was not altogether homely. Their long bills,\\na foot in length, and immense pouches, capable of hold-\\ning a gallon, give them a very odd appearance.\\nThe approaches to the Narrows are guarded by\\ntwo walls of living green, which, when seen at a distance,\\nseem to be but a few paces apart, leaving but a narrow\\ngateway. As we draw near, however, the distance\\nincreases, disclosing a passage nearly a mile in width.\\nSeventy miles it is to the northern end of the lagoon,\\nand above there is a varying width of from three to\\neight miles. Below the Narrows is a land of plenty.\\nHere the oysters accumulate in such quantities that\\nthey form this narrow passage. A storm is observed\\ngathering, and just as we enter the Mangrove Islands it\\nbursts upon us. Before the north wind we scud with\\nbare poles, and are obliged to exert all our caution\\nto prevent being wrecked upon some of the many oyster\\nreefs that obstruct the channel.\\nIt is ten miles through and through the gathering\\ngloom we just discern a sheltering point, after long\\nexposure to the gale. With the storm thundering after\\nus, we silently endure the rain, hopiog that night will\\nbring relief but no lull occurs, and we anchor behind a\\nprojecting reef and finally wade ashore. Hanging our\\nblankets on the mangroves to windward, we finally start", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "210 CRUISING ALONG SHORE.\\na fire witli the aid of lio^ht wood-splinters, and after\\nAvarinincf some llai)iacks and tliorouofhlv steaminsf our-\\nselves, roll ourselves in our blankets and sleep, witli\\nsundry aAvakenings to rci)lenish the fire.\\nToward morning the rain ceased, but not till it had\\nwet us through yes, through, for the captain said he\\ncould feel the rain water slosh about in his stomach.\\nI know that, although I had carefully covered myself\\nwith my rubber blanket, when I awoke it was to find\\nmyself in a puddle four inches deep. Under the cir-\\ncumstances, wasn t it natural that I should desire just a\\ndrop of whiskey I had a quart of the best, which I\\nhad intrusted to the captain s locker, and thought that\\nnow, if ever, was the time to use it.\\nCaptain, in my youth, when very young, and con-\\nsequently incompetent for such a performance, I signed\\nthe pledge. Remember, it was while quite young, and\\nat a very tender age in fact, I think it hardly valid\\nnow, and binding. Then again, I signed off from any-\\nthing that would intoxicate, and I m ready to swear that\\nnothing ever distilled from grain can intoxicate me now,\\nthere s so much water in me. I think I ll try a drop of\\nthat whiskey.\\n^The bottle is in the starn.\\nQuickly I drew it forth slowly and sadly I returned\\nit twas empty. The ca2)tain evaded my gaze, mutter-\\ning the while Twas so confounded bad I didn t like\\nto have it round, and so I drunk it up first night.\\nA run of a dozen miles in the genial warmth of the\\nsun restores our spirits not the sj)iritus fnimoiti, how-\\never and we land at Fort Capron, an old military post,\\nwith a very sharp appetite for breakfast. A hedge of\\noleanders ten feet in height surrounds the plantation,", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "CRUISIifG ALOXG SHORE. 211\\nnow gone to decay. The Cherokee rose, and the Spanish\\nbayonet with its magnificent pjTamid of honey-scented\\nbells, add their fragrance to that of the oleander. A\\nwalk tlirongh the deserted orange grove reveals many\\ntropical wonders, such as the India rubber, satin-wood,\\nguava, lime, lemon, and citron. Vestiges of pineapple\\nplants are shown, which can be raised here successfully.\\nAt Fort Pierce, four miles south, is an excellent location\\nfor a hotel or boarding house. The situation is high\\nand airy, securing immunity from those pests of the\\nlow land, the sand-flies. It is opj)osite to the main\\nentrance to the Atlantic, where vessels of not over four\\nfeet draught can enter. Directly in front are vast oyster\\nbeds, and in December the turtle the green turtle\\nsoup kind swarm in to feed and are caught. Deer,\\nturkeys, quail, in fact all kinds of game fish, from\\nsaw-fish and sharks, to mullets and bass.\\nAnd then the climate Earely, even in summer,\\ndoes the thermometer indicate more than 85 degrees.\\nA south-east breeze blows in summer all night long,\\nmaking the nights cool and comfortable. It is the very\\nparadise for the consumptive, the fountain of youth for\\nhim with pulmonary complaint of whatever kind. But\\ntwo frosts for twenty years have occurred, and those not\\nserious. This description of climate will answer for\\nnearly the whole river, modified only by the slight dif-\\nference in latitude. The waters of the Gulf Stream lave\\nthe coast, tempering the wind in winter. One of the\\nsurgeons in the army stationed here during the Seminole\\nwar, after sixteen years service, gave it as his opinion\\nthat this immediate country was the healthiest in the\\nUnited States. Absolutely free from disease, tis said\\nthat the people are obliged to remove to the next county", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "212 CRUISING ALONG SHORE.\\nto die. When bcl tor means of transportation arc offered,\\nthe wliole river Avill lie the winter rendezvous of thou-\\nsands of health-seekers and sportsmen, who now sliiver\\nthe winter through on the St. Johns.\\nThere is but one annoyance insects. For real tall\\nand lofty jumping and biting, the flea is unapproach-\\nable but liis endeavors are put to shame by the mosqui-\\ntoes and sand-flies. The flea may be avoided, if hotel-\\nhaunted, and. hog-hannted sections are avoided. The\\nmosquito may be kept at bay at night, his hunting\\nseason, by a good, bar but unless one is provided\\nwith an impregnable skin and a large stock of patience,\\nhe will be sure to break some of the commandments over\\nthe sand-flies. Snakes are not numerous eiiough to be\\ndangerous, except in swamps, where the tourist need not\\ngo. This, in a word, is the good and bad of Indian\\nriver.\\nTwenty miles below Fort Pierce is the St. Lucie\\nriver, coming in from the westward, forming a beautiful\\nbay as it joins the waters of the lagoon. Three miles\\nsouth of St. Lucie the broad sound suddenly ends, and\\nafter a chain of small lakes, as it were, the channel\\nwinds through densely-covered, mangrove islands,\\nscarcely fifty yards in widtli.\\nAn adverse wind, and consequently current, kept us\\nat the mouth of Jupiter Narrows two days. We passed\\nthe time shooting turkeys and alligators, and watching\\nthe graceful man-o -war hawks, as they sailed over-\\nhead on wide-extended wings. The ocean beach pre-\\nsented many attractions the beautiful sea beans and\\nshells of exquisite tints, besides vast multitudes of birds.\\nSometimes we would find cocoanuts and fragments of\\nforeign wood, thrown up by the resistless waters. The", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "CRUISING ALOKG SHORE. 213\\nthird day of waiting we entered tlie !N arrows, the most\\ninteresting portion of this vast lagoon. From a point\\na hundred miles north it stretches away south-east, now\\nexpanding, now contracting, till from a width of eight\\nmiles near its northern end it is here less than fifty feet.\\nEach side of us the mangroves rise far overhead, some-\\ntimes mingling their leaves in an arch of living green.\\nTheir gnarled roots strike down into the mud in every\\ndirection, supporting the trunk in mid-air many feet\\nfrom the ground. What a number of roots Eobts\\nfrom the trunk, with minor roots springing from them\\nin every conceivable direction roots from the branches,\\nand these again with smaller roots of their own. Here,\\na mile or so in, is a luxuriant hammock, where a man\\nnamed Peck undertook to subjugate the rank growth,\\nbut the mosquitoes and sand-flies proved too many for\\nhim, and his bones rest peacefully, etc. Here is a small\\nS23ring, and the water cask had better be filled.\\nNo sound breaks the solemn hush, except the tap of\\nthe setting-pole and the ripple of water at our bow, as\\nwe slowly forge ahead.\\nA noticeable feature in the gre-en walls about us is the\\nIndia rubber. AYhenever a clump of palms occurs we\\nfind this tree, enfolding in its trunk the stem of a palm.\\nThe rapidly growing walls gradually encircle the palm in\\nan embrace of living wood, till finally it is seen only\\nthrough the interstices in the rubber. As the tops of\\nthe respective trees intermingle the feathery frond of\\nthe palm and waxy, green leaves of the rubber a beau-\\ntiful effect is produced. Delicate ferns grown in the\\nmesh-work, and gorgeous epiphytes, with flaming spikes\\nof blossom, attach themselves to the branches. Iron-\\nwood, crabwood, and many other valuable woods are", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "214 CRUISING ALONG SHORE.\\nfoniifl along ilic shore of Ilobe Sound, into which we\\nemerge from the Narrows. Near its entrance we saw the\\ncarcass of a manatee, or sea-cow, over wliicli a coroner s\\njury of vultures were holding inquest. F]-om the south\\nend of the Narrows, which are seven miles in length, it\\nis twelve miles to the end of the river. Crossing\\nConch Bar, we follow the stakes indicating the chan-\\nnel, and soon see the dome-sha2)ed lantern, and afterward\\nthe symmetrical shaft of Jupiter Light. During all our\\nvoyage, our course has ever been to the south. Soon we\\nstrike the waters of the Lokohatchee, which coming from\\nthe west, unite with Indian river near the lighthouse,\\nand run due east, through Jupiter Inlet to the ocean.\\nEounding the point, we are soon at anchor, and ascend\\nthe steep bank to a small house of coquina rock, where\\nwe are made welcome.\\nThis was at noon. At night I climbed, with the two\\nkeepers, to the top of the hollow shaft, and looked off\\nfrom the circling platform upon a scene of absorbing\\ninterest. A glimpse of northern wildness and sterility,\\nand southern luxuriance and fertility, the fragile flowers\\nof the tropics blended with the hardy shrubs and trees of\\nthe north. The i3alm and pine, the oak and orange, man-\\ngrove and maple. Semi-tropical indicates Florida s\\nstatus in climate and vegetation. Half northern, half\\nsouthern a kind of half-and-half character that extends\\nto more than climate. We have here a land and Avater\\nview of surpassing beauty. The broad Atlantic bounds\\nthe vision east, its shores extending in curving linos from\\nnorth to south. Down from the north comes Indian\\nriver, curved in outline a bay, a creek, fringed with\\npalm, pine, and mangrove. From the west comes in\\nthe Lokohatchee, charming in i)arks of pine and green", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "CKUISIN G ALON G SHORE. 215\\nmangrove islands its windings reveal it in sheets of\\nsilver among the trees. A narrow creek leads from it\\nsouthward toward Lake Worth. As I looked upon this\\nscene I saw no sign of life, save at the cottage, one hun-\\ndred and fifty feet below me. North, the nearest human\\nhabitation was forty miles away south, one hundred\\nwest, no one knows the swamps and forests there are\\npeojiled only by red men.\\nThe sun s last rays had disappeared, leaving clouds\\nof crimson and gold piled up behind the dark pine forest,\\nas I entered the lantern, where the light was already\\nglowing. I seated myself in the crystal dome, and\\nwatched the reflected colors as they came and went with\\neach revolution of the lantern. As the lantern revolves,\\nevery prism catches the rays of light and rends them into\\ntheir primary colors, paints the colors of the rainbow\\nupon the polished roof, and throws them forward to be\\nreproduced a thousand times in the crystal bars. As the\\nstrong light shone forth, I thought of the many eyes gaz-\\ning ujoon it other than those of the sailors for whom it\\nwas intended. The timid deer, the ferocious puma and\\nwild cat, the bear from his hammock for bears do\\nhave hammocks of palms. No doubt the reflected\\nlight is visible to the Indians dwelling upon the prairie\\nbordering that mysterious lake, Okeechobee. Toward\\nmidnight a little warbler fluttered against the glass,\\nstriving to enter. The keeper has often found them\\nafter storms. The large plates have been shattered by\\nbh ds, who were afterward found lifeless with mangled\\nbreasts. Many birds foreign to our country have flown\\nagainst the glittering, though fatal glass.\\nOnce a year the supply-ship visits this place, in its\\nannual tour from Maine to Florida. Other than this", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "216 CRUISING ALONG SHORE.\\nvisit from Uncle Sam, the inhabitants of Jupiter have\\nfew visitors. A few stray waifs from the North drift\\ndown upon them, brighten them with their presence\\naAvhile, set their sails again, and disai: pear in the gloom\\nof the mangroves. Indian river, once visited, leaves a\\nlonging in the heart of the visitant never satisfied, till\\nthe sparkle of its waters again gladden his eye, and his\\ntent is j)itclied upon its sunny sands. Certainly no other\\nsection of our country possesses so many natural charms,\\nunited with real blessings, so easily accessible.\\nFred Beverly.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "XXIII.\\nSHOOTING AT SALT LAKE.\\nNOMINALLY three miles in length by two in\\nbreadth, this little lake is reduced to half that area\\nin the low stages of water, thus accounting for the land-\\ning of the steamer in a creek a mile or more away. A\\nvast plain of waving reeds and salt grass surrounds the\\nlake on three sides on the eastern, the pine woods come\\ndown to the shore, offering the only landing. Having\\nboats of our own we succeeded in evading the extortion-\\nate charges of the lightermen, and pitched our tent in\\nthe pine barrens, a mile from the lake.\\nThe morning after our arrival I sailed out to taste\\nthe pleasures my observations the day previous had pre-\\npared me for. The breezy freshness of that morning\\ncomes to me now as I write, laden witli the odor of\\nflowers and the songs of birds. The quail called from\\nan old field in the hammock the woodpecker rattled\\njoyously over the pines, and that odd bird, the fish-crow,\\nhaw-hawed from the broad limbed, moss-draped live-\\noaks. As I reached the shore, I caused a flutter in the vast\\nswarm of the tringince feeding there, and provoked the\\nkilldee, that pest of the shore, to send forth a warn-\\ning cry. Overhead, the graceful seamews winged their\\nway, anon dipping into the water for food. The fish-\\nhawk drew from the lake a mighty bass, but hushed his\\n10", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "218 SHOOTING AT SALT LAKE.\\ncxultiint screams, and fled in sudden terrar before the\\npiratical attack of the eagle. Ranged along the shore\\nwere the various representatives of the heron family,\\nfrom the watchful great blue to the Avary and graceful\\nsnowy heron. Started up the busy multitude upon the\\nshore, I let fly a single Inirrel at them, picking up near\\nthirty birds, yellow-legs, killdee, and red-breasted snipe.\\nThen (for I wasn t bloodthirsty at all, and cared more\\nfor variety than quantity), I deposited my birds in a\\nplace of safety, and cautiously waded through the long\\nmatted gi ass, the abode of moccasin snakes, to a space\\nswc})t clean by fire. Scarcely had my feet touched its\\nl)()r(lcr, wlien my ear was delighted with the sound, wel-\\ncome to all sportsmen, scaip, scaip, denoting tlie pres-\\nence of genuine snipe. From every side, before, behind,\\ncame that welcome scaip, as the birds arose at my\\napproach, or at the report of my gun. Wisps of them\\nwould launch into the air, whence after a few fantas-\\ntic evolutions they would return to earth again. I fre-\\nquently got double sliots, and might have loaded myself,\\nbut as there was no one near to share the sport, and future\\nwants might need supply here, I drew off early, deposit-\\ning my booty with their cousins of the shore. This was\\nsufficient for the small birds, and launching my boat\\nand running out from the little creek, I made an on-\\nslaugiit on a Hock of coots (for coots breasts and drum-\\nsticks are good, well boiled), and then skirted a broad\\nbay, where were feeding large flocks of pin-tail ducks,\\nteal, and scattered groups of black ducks. Without\\ninflicting upon the reader a detailed account of the\\na])])roach, through blind ponds, and within shot of\\ncountless hundreds of busy plover and snipe, I will add", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "SHOOTING AT SALT LAKE. 219\\nthat tliere shortly reposed a goodly pile of well-favored\\nducks in the bottom of my boat.\\nIt was now near noon, and while munching my frugal\\nhmch, I cast about me for some larger game more worthy\\nof my labor. Kunning my eye along the shore, I saw,\\nwherever a sandy reach stood out from the reedy margin,\\ndozens of long, black objects stretched motionless upon\\nthe snowy sand. These were alligators which the sun had\\ncalled from the depths of the lake to enjoy his beams in\\nthe open air. Tliere were all sorts and sizes, from the lit-\\ntle snapper, a foot long, to the old bull alligator of a dozen\\nfeet in length, patriarch of a large tribe. Softly pad-\\ndling my boat up a crooked creek, I watched the gators\\nas they slipped off the banks into the water, where they\\nwould remain an instant watching me, then disappear.\\nSoon came my opportunity rounding a sharp curve, I dis-\\ncovered a nine-footer, fast asleep, with mouth wide open.\\nThe vulnerable parts of the alligator are the eye, ear, and\\nthe heart, reached by placing a shot behind the fore leg.\\nThis I well knew, but just as I sighted his ear, a snake\\nslipped into the water, distracting my attention a trifle,\\nand the bulk of the charge was placed too far behind.\\nIt seemed to be effectual, however, and running my boat\\nalongside, I essayed to roll him in. As his paws were\\nworking convulsively, affording no hold, I stuck my\\nbowie knife full into his eye to facilitate operations.\\nThis seemed to have an enlivening effect, for he at once\\ncommenced a series of gymnastic evolutions that would\\nhave struck terror to the heart of Dio Lewis himself.\\nFinding that he was retreating toward the creek, carry-\\ning my eigli teen-inch bowie with him, I seized my gun and\\nstretched him upon his back with quivering paws. Then\\nrolling him into the boat, I soon had him at the land-", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "220 SHOOTING AT SALT LAKE.\\ning. As the best time to skin an alligator is while he is\\nwarm, and some say kicking, I skinned him at once.\\nCutting a slit down the back of each paw, and running\\na continuous line from the under jaw to the tail, just\\nbelow the bony mail, on each side, I removed the skin\\neasily by pulling from the tail toward the head.\\nObserving an alligator on my way back, seemingly\\ntwo feet longer than the one secured, I determined to\\ncapture him. llowing cautiously along shore, I at length\\nespied liini crawling under water toward a narrow\\nthough deep creek. Getting between him and the\\nobject he was aiming for, I stopped him, and he finally\\nseemed convinced that the best thing he could do was to\\nlie still. I fancied I could discern a sinister gleam in\\nhis eye, that boded evil in case we came in contact.\\nPlacing my gun across tlie thwarts, and pushing carefully\\ntoward him, I held myself in readiness for attack at any\\nmoment. But he seemed to fancy himself so secure with\\nthe slight covering of water over him that the boat\\nalmost grazed his side before I had sent the contents of\\none barrel of my gun into his ear. Contrary to my ex-\\npectations he lay motionless, and instead of shooting the\\nboat out of reach of his tail, as I was prepared to do, I\\nlay alongside, and passed over his head a noose of stout\\nline i)reparatory to towing him ashore. No sooner did\\nhe feel the line tightening about his throat than he con-\\ncluded to come to life again, and after a few preliminary\\nkicks and flourishes, proceeded to roll over and over,\\nmuch to my grief and discomfiture. With strange\\nshortsightedness I had omitted to cast off the line from\\nthe bow of the boat, and now that the gator was wind-\\ning it about him with the rapidity of a patent windlass,\\nI suddenly thought of it but it was too late. Bracing", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "8H00TIKG AT SALT LAKE. 221\\nmyself against the rail of the boat, I held on till my\\narms seemed about to bid me good-by, and the sides of\\nthe boat cracked again and again. Then he stopped,\\nbut just as I had dropped the line and started for my\\ngun, he commenced again. This time he untwisted\\nwhat he had twisted before, and commenced twisting in\\nanother direction, and when he had drawn out the last\\navailable inch, and I was thinking sadly what a good\\nboat this used to be, and whether my friends would find\\nme before dark, he stopped again. In gratitude for this\\naction on his part I ought to have cut the line and let\\nhim go but no, my blood was up, and I determined to\\nconquer at all hazards. Carefully drawing the gun\\ntoward me, I opened a ragged hole in the top of his skull\\nin such short metre that he hadn t time to tighten up on\\nthe rope. Then after resting and reloading, I attempted\\nto roll him into the boat. This time he was as dead as\\nit is possible for gator to be, I knew but when, just as\\nI had him poised on the rail, he made a fearful lunge\\nand came down in the boat where I had wanted him, I\\nwas astonished. I w^as so astonished that I immediately\\njumped out on the other side, w^here the water was leg-\\ndeep, in order to get a better view\\\\ When I had looked\\nat him to my satisfaction, I didn t get in. Oh, no.\\nThat boat was only built for one two crow^ded. Though\\nhis head seemed as inanimate as a log of wood, his tail\\nseemed charged w^ith concentrated lightning. A little\\nwriggle, and the thwarts would fly in all directions.\\nA short, sharp rap and the boat seemed to crack from\\nstem to stern. If a dead alligator acted thusly, how\\nAvould one in the full vigor of early manhood act?\\nI began to fear I had missed my calling that\\nalligator shooting was not my forte. The more I", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "222 51IU0TIXQ AT SALT LAKE.\\nthought it over, the stronger was my conviction. By\\nrapid calcuUition, the boat would go to pieces in just\\neighty seconds. Then wliere, oh, wliere would I be\\nIt was half a mile to the landing, and deep creeks\\nand bays intervening. My friends were all hunting\\nfurther east. Seeing just then that he had stopped\\nwriggling, I ventured to get into the boat. I have an\\nimpression that I didn t make much noise and I also\\nhave an impression that I made tliat half a mile in tol-\\nerably quick- time, and the perspiration that streamed\\ndown my face wasn t altogether caused by the heat.\\nGathering my birds together, I returned to camp, to\\nfind my friends engaged in skinning a deer they had\\njust shot, and planning an excursion to a neighboring\\nlake for heron. Notwithstanding my weariness, after\\nplacing a pound or two of venison and slapjacks where\\nthey would benefit me most, I was read}^ and launched\\nupon the lake just as the sun went down. Having a\\ntrolling spoon, I drew forth from their retreat several\\nbroad-tailed black bass, with moutlis like steel traps and\\npossessed of the strength of young alligators. After an\\nhour s rowing and wading, we burst through the cane-\\nbrake and emerged into a little lake, upon one side of\\nwhich was a long, low, willow island, from which scores\\nof herons silently flew away. Concealing ourselves, we\\nwaited. Soon they came by dozens and fifties the im-\\nmaculate and glossy plumaged birds approached. Then\\nthe firing commenced, and continued till each one was\\nsatisfied and ready to return. Emerging from tlie canes,\\nand rowing across the lake, we returned to camp laden\\nwith birds nearly as large as ourselves. In the soft\\nmoonlight we looked strange and ghost-like, with our\\nburdens of white. Leaving the preparation of the birds", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "SHOOTING AT SALT LAKE.\\n223\\ntill the morrow, we kicked together the embers, arranged\\nafresh the light-wood knots, and soon had a delicious\\nai-uma of coffee and venison enveloping us. Then to our\\nbeds of pine boughs, to sleep as only tired hunters can.\\nSuch was a representative day at Salt Lake one of\\nmany with varied scenes and incidents.\\nFeed Beverly.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "XXIV\\nTHE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION.\\nT TT E had what might be called a stormy voyag-e.\\nVV The very night that saw the Yirginius in\\nsuch peril, we sighted the light off Frying-pan Shoals\\njust caught a glimpse of it, only to be driven away far\\neast of the Gulf Stream. Four times did we cross the\\nGulf Stream. For a week we lay to under double-reefed\\nspanker and foresail, drifting with the waves. Dolphins\\nand porpoises. Gulf weed, and Portuguese men-o -war\\nswam and drifted in the water near us, but they failed\\nto excite the interest they ought, for the reason that the\\nobjects we sought on the shores of Florida were far\\naway. The New Year brought a blessing, for upon\\nthat day we first descried the long, low line far in the\\ndistance that told us of the land we sought. The next\\nday the palms appeared above the horizon, but it was\\nsunset ere we were boarded by the pilots and were\\nthreading the tortuous windings of the channel, in tow\\nof the little steamer belonging to the port.\\nMosquito Inlet, our destination, is in about hit. 29\\nlong. 81\u00c2\u00b0, fifty-five miles south of St. Augustine, and one-\\nthird the way down the Florida coast. It is about a\\nmile in width, with two channels, obstructed by sand-\\nbars, having a depth of seven to nine feet. It is the out-\\nwatering of two large lagoons, the Mosquito North, or", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITIOIT. 225\\nHalifax river, and the Mosquito Soutli, or Hillsboro\\nriver. Thirty miles each extends, meeting in a common\\nchannel at the inlet. Close in is Massacre Bluff, with\\nits tragical history of the murder of shipwrecked sailors\\nby Indians, early in the Indian war. Two miles further\\nis Mount Pleasant, a high shell bluff, upon which is the\\nresidence of Major Alden, a Massachusetts man, whose\\nhospitality many have shared. A mile further is Lowd s\\nHotel, the only one here, and one of the three houses\\nconstituting the town of New Smyrna. This place is\\nabout thirty miles from the St. Johns, at Enterprise, the\\nroad to wdiich fully maintains the reputation of Florida\\nroads generally. Though to a stranger the hotel at\\nKew Smyrna may present few attractions, being fronted\\nby a muddy creek and backed by a dense forest, it is\\nfilled to overflowing every winter, the same boarders\\nforming its quota each succeeding season. The mystery\\nis partly explained when one has enjoyed its hospitali-\\nties. Probably the superb fishing of Mosquito Inlet has\\nmuch to do toward maintaining its popularity as a\\nwinter resort. There is the usual variety of game found\\non the Florida coast. The narrow peninsulas, both\\nnorth and south of the inlet, are well stocked with deer\\nand bear, and many panthers and wild- cats find refuge\\nthere. The woods back of the hotel, between New\\nSm3Tna and Enteri^rise, are tolerably well filled with\\ndeer, though it is said the panthers have driven away\\nthe turkeys. At the inlet are large flocks of curlew,\\nbay snipe, ^peep, shearwaters and plover, affording\\nexcellent sport to the juvenile gunners at the hotel.\\nBut by far the best section for procuring large game u\\nthe immense Turnbull swamp, near the head of Indian\\nriver, abounding in deer, turkeys, panther, and bear.\\n10*", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "2 iC THE OKKKCJIOIiEE EXPEDITION.\\nAny old field will furnish its bevy of quail. Besides the\\nmeans of communication with Jacksonville, via St.\\nJolins, costing about fifteen dollars, there is a small\\nschooner which makes the trip as often as the wind will\\npermit fare five dollars. The only business of New\\nSmyrna is in live-oak, which, in the hands of one firm,\\nemploys many schooners the winter through. On both\\nlagoons are large groves of delicious oranges, noted\\nfor tlieir size and flavor. The guava, pomegranate, fig,\\nand banana will flourish here, and have been success-\\nfully grown.\\nTliere are several good guides here, and they can be\\nhired at the usual rates by addressing, at New^ Smyrna,\\nVolusia county, M. Lewis, Dr. Fox, or Frank Grains.\\nThe best location for building or camping is at Mount\\nPleasant, where the channel runs close by the wharf,\\nwith sixteen feet of water. We camped there upon its\\nshelly shore, and passed two pleasant weeks. The\\nweather was unusually cold, even closing the jaws, if\\nthey have jaws, of the blood-thirsty mosquito for a time,\\nand causing tliat omnipresent oldest inhabitant to declare\\nthat no such liad occurred before since the great frost of\\n35. Yet we would have days delicious in tlieir dreamy\\nwarmth, when the air of a morning would be full of the\\nmusic of robin and red-bird. ^*AVe, comprehends my-\\nself and a young man, a friend, of my own age, who was\\nto accompany me upon my boat excursions, and remain\\nat camp while I was absent upon my explorations inland.\\nWe then had a tent that had done service on the St.\\nJohns, which I had brought more for the good it had\\ndone that from any love I bore it. It was called the\\nlawn tent, and resembled the tents figured as belong-\\ning to the children of Israel. It was well adapted to the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION. 227\\ncovering of a large surface, but in a norther we had\\nto get out guys in every direction, and tlicn stand out-\\nside and hang on, while the winds howled and floods\\ndescended. We had two boats. I had named the larger\\nthe Forest and Stream, though I quaked inwardly\\nwhenever I happened to think, What if the proprietors\\nof that paper should see her I had her built to carry\\na heavy load in shallow Avater, and told her builder to\\nsacrifice everything else to strength and lightness and\\nhe did. She was twenty-one feet long by seven feet beam\\namidships, flat bottom, centre-board, rigged with two\\nsmall sails. I had always stood in awe of her, and was\\nmuch relieved when after she had lain idle nearly two\\nweeks, a rash sailor asked me if he could sail her, and\\nwhen he came back and said she worked splendidly, I\\ncould have embraced him. When the boat was loaded\\nwith our freight I saw the wisdom of my instructions to\\nthe builder, for she was full to overflowing. And so,\\none i^leasant day we started down the Hillsboro laden\\nalmost to the water s edge. We were fortunate in get-\\nting a tow down the river for nearly twenty miles.\\nThe Hillsboro for twenty miles, is filled with man-\\ngrove and marshy islands, making many exceedingly tor-\\ntuous channels difficult to follow. Shipyard Reach,\\nfifteen miles south of Smyrna, is a noted place for ducks\\nbut the best of all grounds is a little below on the west\\nchannel, where they come to a little pool to drink all day\\nlong. Parties have been here and shot a hundred to the\\nman in half a day s shooting. Bissett s orange mound\\nis a favorite place here the wild oranges glow and\\ngleam through the dark foliage, covering a shell mound,\\nat whose base is a drinking pool where the ducks flock\\nbv scores. October and November are the best months,", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "228 THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION.\\nand ngain in March, the interim being spent by the\\ngreater part of the mass of ducks wintering in Florida\\nfurther south.\\nFrom New Smyrna south occur a great many shell\\nand earth mounds of ancient origin, several of which I\\nhave exi)]orcd, and the results of which explorations I\\nshall publish in a future letter.\\nThe Mosquito lagoon commences at the Devil s\\nElbow, a channel of the Hillsboro where there are nine\\ncrooks in half a mile. AVe passed safely through the\\nDevil s Elbow, and arrived at the head-quarters of the\\nSwifts, proprietors of the live-oak interest here. From\\nCaptain Swift and his employees we have received the\\nkindest attention. Mosquito lagoon is here two miles in\\nbreadth and ten miles to the canal connecting this lagoon\\nsystem with Indian river. There are several orange\\ngroves on this lagoon, both wild and cultivated. We\\nentered the canal about noon one day, passing the first\\nstake half a mile north, and standing^away south-east till\\nopposite the canal. The eastern end is invisible till di-\\nrectly at its mouth, owing to bushes and sand-bars. The\\ncanal is about half a mile long and twelve feet wide.\\nConnecting the Indian river lagoon with the Mosquito,\\nit forms with them an inside route of water travel over\\none hundred and eighty miles in length. The water was\\nat the highest when we entered, yet we barely passed\\nthrough, drawing but a foot. Fallen coquina has nar-\\nrowed the passage to seven feet in some places. The\\ncocjuina is curiously hollowed by the water, leaving over-\\nhanging arches supported by pillars fantastically wrought.\\nThe kingfisher has driven liis sliafts into the rock, and\\nthen occupied them. A large tree, with table-shaped\\ntop, stands near the eastern end, and can be seen a", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION. 22G\\nlong way, forming a conspicuous land-mark. There is\\ngood camping ground near here, and an abundance of\\nfish and ducks close by. Deer and bear range the ham-\\nmocks north. We camped that night at Andrew Jack-\\nson s. Andrew has the neatest little orange grove on\\nthe river. Close by, two miles, is the famous Dummitt\\norange grove, so often described. Captain Dummitt,\\nthe original owner of this grove, died a year ago. He was\\nan old resident, and highly respected. The grove is now\\nowned by his three daughters and two others. This\\nyear s crop is estimated at 125,000, fully as many having\\nbeen blown off in a tremendous gale last autumn. Two\\nsmaller groves near here have, respectively, four and\\neight thousand. It is about sixteen miles from the canal\\nto the head of the river, and ten miles to Sand Point,\\nupon the west bank of the river. The buildings of\\nAurantia Grove, so much advertised, can be seen about\\nseven miles up the river. I had no time to visit it,\\nand so cannot speak of its merits from observation.\\nThe land is said to be good, worth $1.25 per acre.\\nIndian river needs for its proper development a railroad\\nto Lake Harney, the head of navigation on the St. Johns,\\nor a new canal to Mosquito lagoon, with light-draught\\nsteamers plpng between Jacksonville and the lagoon.\\nThe railroad is the more feasible route, perfectly practi-\\ncable, and would probably pay. The distance to be trav-\\nersed is said to be but thirteen miles. A small steamer\\nis needed upon the river, and three good hotels one\\nat the head of the river or lagoon, one midway, and\\none near the southern end. Then this delightful climate\\nmight be enjoyed by the thousands now kept away by\\nthe difficulties attending transportation and lack of", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "S.IO TnE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION.\\naccommodations. The present route, via Salt Lake, ia\\nvery tedious, and uncomfortably long.\\nWe crossed the river one night after waiting two days\\nfor a wind. The water was all aglow with phospho-\\nrescent light. Every dash of our little boat raised a\\nsilver shower, and thousands of fish darted hither and\\nthither, leaving tortuous trails of fire, like those Fourth\\nof July serpents of our boyhood. Rafts of ducks\\nsprang up with noise like thunder, invisible but for the\\nfiery shower they raised u]3on leaving the water. It was\\nmidnight before we reached Harvey s, and anchored. It\\nis six miles across to Salt Lake. There is a settlement a\\nmile from the river, where also is a small boarding house.\\nThere is but one building at the landing, a store. Here,\\nfor the first time, the visitor from the North sees the\\npalmetto, in the long columnar rows, so characteristic\\nof the Indian river. Two days we passed here and at\\nTitusville, two miles below, awaiting a fair wind. The\\nhotel at the latter place is the only one on the river, and\\nis said to be well kept $3 per day is charged for tran-\\nsient boarders. Board at the settlement is SL50 per day.\\nThis is the northernmost of the four post-offices on the\\nriver. A mail is supposed to arrive and depart once a\\nweek, but it really arrives and leaves with the wind.\\nVery fine specimens of native woods may be procured\\nhere, such as the crabwood, royal palm, mangrove, pal-\\nmetto, and iron w ood, made into canes, etc. Titusville\\nowes all of its present jirosperity to the indefatigable en-\\nergy of its proprietor. Colonel H. T. Titus. This place\\nis only noteworthy as a point of the arrival and de]iar-\\nture for more interesting points on the rivei-. For ducks\\none must go across the river to Dummitt s. ten miles,\\nor to Banana creek, still further. For deer, to Mer-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDrno;N 231\\nritt s Island, or to the prairies bordering Salt or South\\nlakes. Boatmen and guides can be hired to any point\\non the lagoon and interior. James Stewart, captain\\nof the Blonde, is perfectly trnstworthy and reliable.\\nJim Rnssell is thoroughly posted upon the game and\\nfish of Indian river, and Avill be found of great value\\nto any party contemplating a winter s camp here. Ad-\\ndress them at Sandy Point, which is the old name for\\nTitusville.\\nI visited some old acquaintances here, and walked\\nover to the store of a man named Joyners. I was much\\nsurprised to find him apparently overjoyed to meet me,\\nthe more so as we had met but once. My heart\\nwarmed as he poured forth congratulation and welcome,\\nand I thought here was one true friend, if he did have a\\nsuspicious squint in one eye and never once looked me\\nsquare in the face. What was my disgust to find, upon\\nreturning to the boat, that he had despatched a jus-\\ntice to arrest me for an alleged violation of the license\\nlaw, in giving a man, whom I had hired, an old coat.\\nA friend told the justice he thought he d better not\\ntrouble me, and the justice departed, saying he thought\\nso too. We left Titusville at daybreak one morning.\\nThe wind gradually increased, till at noon it was blowing\\nhalf a gale, and we were very glad to seek shelter behind\\nOleander Point, about twenty-five miles from Sand\\nPoint. A gale is the specialty in which Indian river\\nexcels either a gale or a calm. But then this is a\\nstormy winter, though it is hard to realize.it with the\\nciiormometer at shirt-sleeve temperature. Oleander Point\\nis formed of disintegrated shells, white as snow, the\\nbeach ending in a crescent-shaped bar. South of this\\nbeach is a coquina formation, extending for miles, where", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "232 THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION.\\nthe rocks arc worn into every shape imaginable. A Mr.\\nHardee lives here, wliose grove of tliree-year-old trees is\\nthe linest I have seen. He has splendid oranges, from\\ntrees only three years from the bud. His crop brought\\na dollar per hundred more in Savannah than the St.\\nJohns oranges.\\nAVe slept upon the beach that night, beneath a lean-\\nto tent whicli my friend, who is an old camper-out, had\\nput up between two palmettoes. The clieerful blaze in\\nfront made it far prefera])lc to our close quarters aboard\\ntiie boat. The next afternoon, the wind abating, we set\\nsail, and at niglit, the wind increasing, made a camp on\\nthe shores of Horse creek. Tliis is a high coquina bluff\\nof pine land, a fine place for camp or residence. Nearly\\nopposite is the southern end of Merritt s Island, whose\\nhigh, pine-covered sliores have been in sight for the last\\ntwenty-five miles. Just south of here, three miles, is\\nElbow creek, which was to be the terminus of a canal to\\nconnect Indian river with Lake Washington, on the St.\\nJohns. The sclieme is now busted, and Indian river\\nwill have to seek connection with the outside world else-\\nwhere. At Turkey creek, fifteen miles south, is a fine\\norange and banana grove, where huge bunches of the\\nlatter fruit can be purchased at $1 per liundred. St.\\nSebastian is twelve miles from Turkey creek. It is a\\nbeautiful slieet of water, and the camper-out will find\\nhere secure shelter during gales. From Horse creek we\\nwere assisted by tluit veteran guide and boatman, Jim\\nRussell. Wlmt Jim don t know about Indian river is not\\nworth knowing. He has spent twenty years here, and\\ncan tell to a certainty just where and when the rarest\\nbirds are to be found, where to go for deer, bear, or\\npanther. Jim, then, took us in charge, and kept us", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITIOiT. 233\\nthrough tlie Narrows, with a dim vision of Pelican\\nIsland north of the entrance by Indian Eiver Inlet, old\\nFort Capron, and anchored us at two o clock one morn-\\ning just as the moon sank out of sight, at Fort Pierce.\\nHere we made our final camp, one hundred and thirty\\nmiles south of our starting point at New Smyrna.\\nFort Pierce is the name given to this place during\\nthe Indian war, when there was a military station here.\\nHere it was, according to history, that the famous chief-\\ntain. Wild Cat, Coacoochee, was captured and sent west.\\nThe old parade ground, made over thirty years ago, is\\nstill in good condition, south of the present site of Fort\\nPierce, or St. Lucie. The best turtling and oyster\\ngrounds are here, and splendid fishing at the inlet, three\\nmiles east. There is a party of gentlemen camped just\\nnorth of here. They are enthusiastic sportsmen, and have\\nbeen fishing Jupiter Inlet and Indian River Inlet loith\\nfiles. Their success was wonderful. They tell me that\\nthey caught crevalle, bone-fish, and blue-fish the bone-\\nfish and crevalle making hard fight and splendid sport.\\nI have photographed the most noteworthy and pictur-\\nesque features of Indian river and Mosquito lagoon,\\nand the negatives are carefully preserved for future\\nmanipulation. Within the week that has clasped since\\nmy arrival, I have thoroughly explored the country\\nbetween the river and the cyi^ress bordering Lake\\nOkeechobee, walking and riding one hundred miles in\\nfour days, over, or rather through, a submerged tract of\\ncountry, visiting my old friends the Indians, and\\ndiscovering new facts. In closing, I will recapitulate the\\ndifferent camping grounds and haunts of game, promis-\\ning a better list in some future number.\\nFor fish, go to Ne^y Smyrna, Indian River Inlet, or", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "X ;U THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION.\\nJupiter. Fur duck, Mosquito lagoou and Ilillshoro at\\nthe places already mentioned the marshes between Black\\nPoint and the canal at Dummitt s, Pelican Island, near\\nthe Narrows, and 8t. Lucie Sound. Ten-mile creek, ten\\nmiles back of Fort Pierce, also abounds in teal and wood\\nduck. For deer and bear, TurnbuU s Hammock, near\\nNew Smyrna Merritt s Island, and the beach ridge\\nthree miles from the southern end the Narrows St.\\nJohn s Prairie, five miles w^est of Capron, and beyond.\\nFor turkey, St. John s Prairie and about St. Lucie\\nSound. There are good camping sites at Indian River\\ncanal, Jones Point, Addison Point, Horse creek, Turkey\\ncreek, Merritt s Island, south end, St. Sebastian, Bar-\\nker s Bluff, Fort Capron, Fort Pierce, and at various\\npoints along St. Lucie Sound. Water may be procured\\nalmost anywhere by digging a shallow pit in the sand.\\nFor other information upon Indian river I refer the\\nreader to my article previously written. A party of\\nfour could enjoy the pleasures of sporting here to best\\nadvantage. Let them come as I have, with everything\\nnecessary for the winter, pre^^ared to rough it, if need\\nbe, and my word for it they will depart with a desire to\\ncome again. A friend of mine pur2)oses erecting a com-\\nmodious hotel near St. Lucie, where everything needful\\nto the jierfect enjoyment of this region of game and\\nhealth will be at command. The guides to Indian river\\nare few, but I can recommend James Stewart, Charles\\nStewart, Juim Houston, Rufus Stewart, and Burton\\nWilliams.\\nIt is a fact beyond doubt that the whooping crane\\n(Grus Americanus) is a resident of Florida, There has\\nbeen seen for many years, upon Alligator Flats, about\\ntwenty miles from Fort Capron, Indian river, a large", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION. 235\\nwhite bird^ as tall as a man, which the native Flori-\\ndans called a stork. Last year the young of this bird\\nwas taken from a nest and brought to Fort Capron,\\nwliere it was kept till over six months old. The plu-\\nmage of this bird was white from the first. It was a\\nwhooping crane, if the description of its possessors was\\ncorrect, as it agreed exactly in specific characteristics\\nwith the description of the whooping crane.. For many\\nyears these birds haye roamed over the Alligator Flats,\\nand about the prairies of the headwaters of the St.\\nJohns. Their large size and loud cry have always made\\nthem conspicuous, and the cow^ hunters of the back-\\nwoods, not knowing any other bird so large, have given\\nthem the name of stork. The sand-hill crane is very\\nplentiful here, and there is no cause for the belief that\\nthe two species are confounded. The great white heron,\\nthe {Audubonia occidentaUs) is the only other bird\\napproaching the whooping crane in size, and likely to be\\nmistaken by ignorant jDeople for it, and the supposition\\nthat it may be this species is precluded by the habits and\\nliaMtat of that bird. We think this the first recorded\\ninstance of the .discovery of this species in Florida,\\nthough we may be mistaken.\\nThe Everglade kite {Rostrhamus sociahilis) has been\\nshot upon the St. Johns prairies by your correspondent,\\nand he believes that he w411 find the eggs of that bird\\nthis season. The specimens procured were in the adult\\nand young plumage.\\nx\\\\uthentic information of the discovery of the eggs\\nof the paroquet [Coyiurus CaroUnensis) has been ob-\\ntained, and it is confidently expected that they will be\\nsecured the coming season.\\nIndian river in April is as beautiful, its skies as", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "*^36 THE OKEECllOIJEE EXPEDITION.\\nBorenc, and its waters as untroubled as in January but\\nIndian river in April is not the river it was in January,\\nfor all that. Its visitors from the North, the Yankees,\\nhave departed and its visitors from the South, the\\ninsects, have arrived. The temperature in April does,\\nnot vary much from that of March the mornings are\\ndeliciously cool, and the afternoons well, they are\\nwarm. Sixty-five in the morning at sunrise ninety at\\nnoon a breeze from the south all day, and a gale from\\nthe west all night.\\nWhen I had returned to St. Lucie from Okeechobee,\\nmy friend at head-quarters wanted to leave and it was\\nonly to allow me a flying trip to the Seminole town that\\nhe would remain. The reasons he urged for departing\\nwere insects. Fleas and mosquitoes might have their\\nuses, might be a blesssing to mankind, but too many\\nfleas and a superabundance of mosquitoes were worse\\nthan none at all and so long as that grind-stone was\\nleft out of doors for them to sharpen their bills on, so\\nlong was life a burden to him. And so we sailed away\\nfrom St. Lucie. A few miles from St. Lucie is Indian\\nRiver Inlet, where the fishing is superb and the mos-\\nquitoes abundant. We went over to the inlet one day,\\nwith my old guide Jim to assist us. The memory of\\nthat day s sport will not soon fade away bass, sheeps-\\nhead, crevalle all bit well, and fully sustained the repu-\\ntation accorded this inlet as the best fishing ground on\\nthe coast. Jim had been hunting in the scrub along the\\nsand ridge, and returned to the boat as I hauled in my\\nlast fish, bloody and torn. There was blood on his face,\\nblood on his hands, hair and rifle. His shirt and pants\\nwere torn and likewise bloody. In reply to my questions\\nhe remarked in a careless way that he had run a-foul of", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION. 237\\na catamount, and that the beast had showed fight.\\nWhen I requested him to bring along his catamount, he\\nsaid it was out there in the sand, and that if I wanted it\\nI might get it. Though I had doubts of the existence\\nof said catamount, I went as directed, and did actually\\nfind one, a beautiful creature, about four feet in length,\\ncuriously spotted and striped, and with tufted ears.\\nJim had discovered four of them, had wounded one and\\nthen captured him. It was Just here that I was camped\\none night two years ago. Jim was with me, and per-\\nformed a feat that many men would shrink from.\\nThe captain of a little schooner had got his anchor\\ncaught beneath a sunken mangrove and was going to cut\\nhis cable and leave it, when Jim volunteered to dive for\\nand get it up. The water was alive with sharks this\\nplace is noted for them and the anchor was twenty feet\\nunder water but Jim, after giving me instructions in\\ncase he was attacked, dived repeatedly, with the sharks\\nswarming about our little boat, and a rapid current\\nrunning, till he had accomplished his purpose. Oppo-\\nsite the inlet, two miles, is the residence of Judge Paine,\\nwhere board and lodging can be obtained, I presume, as\\nthe Judge has a snug little house, with two rooms\\nand beds. He also has a noble pack of hounds, which\\ndo duty at the gate. They are very affectionate, these\\nhounds are, and one of them formed an almost insepara-\\nble attachment for the calf of my leg one day as I went\\nthere for my mail.\\nThe hunting here is not so good as the fishing,\\nthough deer may be obtained in the scrub and pine\\nwoods, and quail at the old Eussell plantation. Fire\\nhunting in the mode usually adopted for shooting deer\\nand other animals. That is, fire hunting was the", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "238 THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION-.\\nmctliod. The principal cliarm of fire hunting lies in\\nthe uncertainty attending it, as to what you may kill.\\nA man goes out, horseback or a-foot, with a pole over\\nhis shoulder, hished to the end of which is an old frying-\\npan, in which is a fire of light-wood. The blaze throws\\na lane of light ahead of him, leaving him in darkness.\\nThe eye of a deer reflects that light, so that all the\\nbearer of the frying-pan has to do is to blaze away at\\nthe eye. There is a deal of sport in this style of hunt-\\ning. I remember a night s experience at South Lake,\\nwhere I followed my guide about all night looking for\\neyes. We didn t see any eyes, but we had glorious sport.\\nMy part of it was to carry a bag of pine knots, and when\\nmy guide lowered the pan to replenish the fire with a\\nknot. Twas fine sport, but grew to be a trifle monot-\\nonous toward morning. As I said before, in the uncer-\\ntainty of fire hunting lies its chief attraction. Other\\neyes than deer s will reflect the light, and the bearer of\\nthe pan the messenger of light we may call him\\ndoesn t know just what particular eye he may shine\\nat any particular moment. It may be the eye of an ox,\\nor a bear, or a panther. In case it is the latter, the\\nusual way if the shiner is convinced the sltinee is a\\npanther is to deposit the rifle and pan on the ground\\nand climb a tree. Fire hunting, then, has its votaries all\\nalong the river. There is one gentleman near Fort\\nOapron always successful. He never goes out without\\nreturning with some trophy of his skill. A few nights\\nbefore I left lie bagged a fine mare and colt, and was\\nconvinced that if he d kept on he d have killed a deer.\\nThe inlet is the place where B. Hackle and his\\nfriends thorough sportsmen, all of them had their\\nfinest sport, here and at Jupiter. The Narrows is as", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION 239\\ngood a place for deer as any on the river. As I was\\nsailing through them one moonlight night, I was\\nawakened by my boatman, and looking up, discovered a\\ndeer swimming across close to the boat. Kevolver, rifle,\\neverything had been packed away, and we lost him.\\nIvight here in the Narrows, one of my acquaintances dis-\\ncovered a bear swimming, and undertook his capture.\\nAs he had nothing but a hatchet, and a heavy breeze\\nwas blowing, he was forced to relinquish the bear after\\nlaying its head open, and Bruin had nearly upset the\\nboat by getting his paws on the rail.\\nAt Elbow creek, and across the river on the eastern\\nshore, is the finest picturesque portion of the river. The\\nlittle bay, formed as the creek reaches Indian river, is\\nalmost shut in by high coquina rocks. The shores are\\nsandy, with high bluffs behind them. The water-worn\\ncoquina rock here is the most attractive on the river.\\nIt was here that the famous canal, to connect the St.\\nJohns with Indian river, was to terminate. It was to be\\nabout seven miles in length. A company was formed, a\\ndredge-boat set to work at Lake Washington, lands pur-\\nchased, a town laid out on paper, and now the machin-\\nery of the boat is being transported to Sand Point for\\nuse in a saw-mill, and *Eau Gallic has just as many\\ninhabitants as it had before the bubble was blown. No\\ndoubt can exist as to the suitability of the locality for a\\ntown, could one be started for the high pine land\\nslopes gradually to the river, the climate is delightful,\\nand annoying insects comparatively few.\\nMr. Houston, the resident at Elbow creek, is an old\\nIndian fighter, having served through the seven years of\\nthe first war. His reminiscences were interesting, espe-\\ncially to me, as he had fought Indians I had met at the", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "240 THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION\\nSeminole town and while hunting, and fought at locali-\\nties I had recently visited. A wedged-shaped coquina\\nrock terminates Merritt s Island, two miles east of Elbow\\ncreek. The rocky shores here are worn into innumer-\\nable caverns, their roofs supported by water-wrought\\npillars and groined arches. The island comes down to\\nthis point, ever narrowing, till it terminates a mile north\\nof a palm-croAvned point upon the eastern shore. A\\ndeep bay is formed, crescent shaped, covered with dainty\\nshells. Bordering this bay is a high shell bluff, covered\\nwith wild orange trees. Back of this bluff is an ancient\\nearth mound, from which leads an elevated road- way,\\nsixty feet in width, to the sea-beach a mile away.\\nNow, this place, in my belief, has a share in the\\ntragical history attending the early settlement of Florida\\nby the Spaniards. When Ribaut was wrecked on this\\ncoast, and fell into the hands of Menendez in 1565, a part\\nof his force, some 200, escaped down the coast. Soon\\nintelligence came to the Spaniards that the French were\\nfortifying themselves and building a vessel south of\\nCape Canaveral. A force was despatched, which cap-\\ntured the greater part of the French troops, burned their\\nvessel and destroyed their fort. The Spaniards then\\nbuilt another fort, which they called St. Lucie, and\\ngarrisoned it. From many proofs, I adduce the opinion\\nthat this is the site this ])luff or earth mound of that\\nSpanish fort. The road, from sea-beach to river, straight\\nand wide, was probal^ly made by the builders of the\\nmound many years before the Spanish conquest, but it\\ndoubtless was in condition then to offer many advantages,\\nand not, as now, overgrown with scrub and palmetto. I\\nam not aware that the fact of the existence of this old\\nroad has ever been mentioned before at least in this", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITIOIT. 241\\nconnection but, from a careful examination of the\\nground and a comparison of existing proofs with histo-\\nrical description, I am convinced that I am correct.\\nMr. Houston found, some jeavs ago, a bolt, eyidently a\\nlarge coupling-bolt, and a piece of iron resembling the\\ntrunnion of a cannon. I am convinced that a series of\\nexcavations would reveal further proofs of my views.\\nUpon the south end of Merritt s Island, west of the shell\\nbluff just mentioned, lives the Crusoe of the river. He\\nhas lived here some three or four years, cultivating the\\nsoil and clearing the scant hammock, till he has several\\nacres in a high state of cultivation, with abundant crops\\nof squashes and prickly pear. Within a year or so\\nthis Crusoe has purchased several goats, and lives there\\nalone with them and his cat. I went over one day to\\npay him a visit, but he was away. His shanty and goats\\nwere still there, though, and I determined to have a\\npicture of them. This shanty was about twenty feet long,\\nfive feet high in the middle, and about six feet wide at\\nthe base. It was made by covering a pitch roof with\\npalmetto leaves, and was open at either end. Two\\nboards formed one side and end of the bed he slept in,\\nand the side of the shanty the other side. There was\\njust room enough to crawl in, so filled up was it with\\nold rope, boards, etc. It looked so snake-suggestive that\\nnone of us entered. There was an old broken-legged\\ntable, a crippled chair, a grind-stone, and a smudge-pot\\noutside. The owner, we afterward learned, was camp-\\ning out to get rid of the fleas. There are many incon-\\nveniences attending photographing in Florida, and I\\nhave had so many amusing and provoking incidents that\\nI shall some time v/rite a chapter of them. I set ni}\\ncompanions to collecting and herding the goats, abou\\n11", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "242 THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITIOIT.\\nfifteen, near the slianty, while I set my camera and\\npitclicd my developing tent. AVhen all was ready, I\\nlooked for my goats and saw them not. They soon ap-\\npeared, however, in hot pursuit of my boatman Dan,\\nwho just escaped old Billy by climbing the fence. Wc\\nsoon got them in position near the shanty, with the aid\\nof my friend and the two boatmen, and retired to my\\ntent to prepare the negative plate. Upon emerging, I\\ndiscovered that the leader of the herd had amused him-\\nself chasing my friend about the place causing him to\\nsit down in a bed of prickly pear, which hurt his feelings\\nvery much and otherwise misbehaving himself. After\\nmuch trouble we got them in order, and I opened the\\nslide and congratulated myself upon getting a good\\npicture. I hardly counted two before a huge old\\ngoat, with wide-spread horns, spied my camera and\\nstarted on a tour of inspection. If he had started lei-\\nsurely I shouldn t have cared, but he came in a hurry,\\nas though he saw something in my direction he desired,\\nand so I concluded to postpone the taking of that picture,\\nshouldered my camera and travelled among the cacti in a\\nway that brought tears to my eyes and tears to the eyes\\nof my friends on the fence. I never did love goats and\\nif that goat had seemed at all open to conviction I should\\nhave stopped and told him what I thought of goats in\\ngeneral, and him in particular. But I didn t stop, but\\nkept right on, leaped the bank and gained the boat, just\\nas he struck it with his horns. Then he went back and\\nstood peacefully chewing his cud. And I think he is\\nstill there, for I didn t go back to alarm him.\\nAs most of Florida visitors are aware. Sand Point\\nis the principal place on the river, or lagoon, and about\\nthe only point the visitor sees he is so tired and worn", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION 243\\nby the ride there tliat he goes no further. I don t know\\ntliat the people of this section are more avaricious than\\nin any other indeed, I have always found the residents\\ngenerous and hospitable but the temjjtation to bleed a\\nman with money is irresistible where money is so scarce.\\nAlong the St. Johns, at the hotels, it is worse than on\\nIndian river. It is just as a cracker expressed it one\\nday at St. Lucie. He came to my friend, the doctor,\\nwith a bottle in his hand containing some unhappy bugs\\nhe had captured. Says he\\nDoctor, I reck n I ve gut a curostv fer yer.\\nAh\\nYis when you uns was done gone inter Okeecho-\\nbee, I cought these yer animils fer yer. Ye see, I was a\\ncuttin down a cabbage pulmeteer and found these yer\\ninto the middle on t and as I never seed any like em I\\njest put em in a bottle, and hev been a feedin em nigh\\non two weeks. I s j^ose you want em, don t yez\\nWell, yes, I ll take them how much for them\\nThe bugs were worthless, but the doctor always made\\na point of taking whatever was brought, as sometimes he\\nsecured something of value.\\nWall, I don t know I reck n about Uvo dollars a\\npiece\\nDo you think that enough, Mr. T.\\nAVall, they se been a heap uv trouble to me, an Fve\\nneglected my grubbin to feed them thar critters, an I\\nrailly suppose they s worth considerable more, but I\\ndidn t know hoiu much you Yanhees would sta7id!^\\nThat is the key note rung by the hotel keepers in\\nFlorida, how much you Yankees can stand without\\ncollapsing.\\nAt Smyrna I met Dr. Fox, the guide to the Savan*", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "244 THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITI0:N\\nnail party that souglit Lake Okeechobee. As has been\\nstated, th?y were obliged to return after reaching Lake\\nKissimmee, owing to the illness of one of their number.\\nThey found an abundance of game in the islands of\\nLakes Kissimmee and Cyjoress, and the woods bordering\\nthe river. From the nature of the country bordering\\nthe upper Kissimmee, I knew that there would be an\\nabundance of game, such as quail, turkeys, and deer,\\nthere being more hammocks and less real swamps\\nthan upon the lower Kissimmee. If I include the vari-\\nous birds and animals generally called game by many\\ngunners, then the Kissimmee is well stocked. At the\\nford were hundreds of white ibis and yellow-legs and\\ncurlew, while the settlers vouched for several flocks of\\nturkeys in the hammocks. Deer were comparatively\\nabundant out on the prairies, wald-cats plentiful, while\\nonly a few nights before our arrival, a 2}anther had put\\nin an appearance at a settler s cabin, while the man was\\naway, and carried away a hog before the eyes of the\\nsettler s wife and children. One of the party had a\\nEemington, No. 12 bore, 30-in. breech-loader along,\\nand made quick work with whatever birds came within\\nrange. The execution of this gun is remarkable, and we\\ncould shoot w^th equal ease the smallest warbler or\\nlargest heron or hank. Its simplicity of construction,\\nplainness, and cheapness, make it just the gun for the\\ncollector. This gun, with my 9-in. Remington revolver,\\nwas amply sufficient in the way of fire-arms, tliough we\\nhad encumbered ourselves with several other weapons.\\nThere will, undoubtedly, be many visitors to the\\nOkeechobee and Kissimmee region next winter, and I\\ndoubt not that the sporting facilities will be thoroughly\\ntested. The boat in which I made my trip I sold to", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITIOIT. 245\\nJudge Parker, a resident on the Kissimmee, near Fort\\nBassenger, and any party desiring to make the trip\\ncould not do better than secure control of the stanch\\nForest and Stream, as she is a boat well suited to\\nthe work.\\nI left St. Lucie, Indian river, the 14th of February.\\nAs before stated, it was my intention to have my boat\\ntransported to the Kissimmee river, and sail down that\\nriver into and around Lake Okeechobee.\\nThis plan has been adhered to, and has resulted in\\na complete success. Of all the parties started for Lake\\nOkeechobee this winter and there seem to have been\\nmany ours is the only one that has penetrated the\\nEverglades and explored the lake. It is, in fact, the\\nonly party that has sailed completely around the lake,\\nand brought from theuce authentic information regard-\\ning its topography and natural productions. The lake\\nis the largest in the South. Probably less has been\\nknown of this lake than of any body of water of like\\nsize in the Union, owing to the impassability of the\\ncountry about it, and the alleged hostility of the Indians\\nupon its borders. During tlie Indian war of 1835- 43,\\nboats crossed up it on two occasions, ascending and de-\\nscendiugthe Kissimmee river, and scouring the cypress\\nswamjos in search of Indians. In the war of 56- 58,\\nforts, or military stations, were located as near the lake\\nas the character of the land would permit, and it was\\nfrequently crossed, and, no doubt, pretty thoroughly\\nexplored. But the soldiers of the last Indian war were\\nprincipally militia, natives of the country, and but little\\nknowledge of the lake was disseminated through them.\\nSince that time Okeechobee lias remained veiled in\\nobscurity, No one but the Seminoles knew the charac-", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "246 THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION-.\\nter of its shores or the productions of its waters. The\\nmystery surrounding it has been unbroken, nothing has\\nbeen really known of it, until our boat was launched upon\\nits waters. The State engineer of Florida, in 1855,\\nexpressed the opinion generally held regarding the coun-\\ntry about the lake, when he wrote These lands are now,\\nand will continue to be, nearly as much unknown as the\\ninterior of Africa, or the mountain sources of the Ama-\\nzon. Fabulous stories of beautiful islands, picturesque\\nruins, and pirate-haunted glens, have been much in vogue\\nwith writers upon Lake Okeechobee, and to lift the veil\\ntliat has so long hung over it, and narrate the plain facts,\\nis to deprive tliem of a seemingly inexhaustible fund of\\nromance. I must confess that it pains me to do so, but\\nfidelity to trutli compels me to write of the lake as it is,\\nand not as it should be. The beautiful groves of trop-\\nical fruits, the monkeys, spiders of gigantic size, and\\nancient ruins, are among the things that were not.\\nThere is but one practicable route to Lake Okeecho-\\nbee, that via the Kissimmee river. There are, however,\\ntwo routes to that river, and for the edification of the\\nfuture traveller to the lake I will describe them. A\\ngood boat, provisions, and everything necessary for a\\nmonth s stay, are necessary by either. The one I adopted\\nwas, as stated, from Indian river, at St. Lucie, across\\nthe country, to the location of old Fort Bassenger, on\\nthe Kissimmee river. The first ten miles is through a\\nlow open pine woods, very wet in the winter months,\\nthrough which flow two deep creeks, the Five-mile\\nand Ten-mile. From Ten-mile creek the course is\\nnorth of west for twenty-four miles, at first over the\\nAlapattie Flats, submerged as late as March, and dry\\nand alkaline in the dry season later, a short wiry grass", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITIO]Sr. 247\\ncovers them, and shallow poncTs, dry in the dry season,\\noccur at intervals. The clumps of cypress here are\\ncharacteristic of this section, being in long curving lincB,\\nresembling mountains at a distance. At intervals of\\nhalf a dozen miles, pine islands occur, with opportuni-\\nties for camping. Sixteen miles from Ten-mile creek,\\ntwenty-six from St. Lucie, the prairies of the St. Johns\\nare taken and kept until the old military road from Fort\\nCapron to Tampa is struck, when the course is due west\\nfor five miles through a belt of timber to the Kissimmee\\nPrairies. This belt runs nearly north and south, separa-\\nting the prairies of the Kissimmee from those of the\\nSt. Johns and the Alapattie Flats. The road over the\\nprairies is rather obscure, as also is that to the timber\\nupon the other side, but easily followed by a woodsman.\\nThe course is south-west. The prairie is dotted with\\npine islands, the last one (in which lives the only\\nsettler on the route. Judge Parker) is over two miles in\\nwidth. The Kissimmee at the ford is about fifty yards\\nwide, though it sometimes overflows its banks for two\\nmiles upon the eastern side. We had to wade a mile\\nbefore launching our boat.\\nThe other route is from Lake Jessup, or Winder, on\\nthe St. Johns, to Lake Tohopekaliga, or Cypress, the\\nhead-waters of the Kissimmee. It is said to be about\\nforty miles overland, and one hundred and forty down\\nthe river to Bassenger. The settlers near the river knew\\nnothing of the distance from the Fort Bassenger ford to\\nthe lake, but thought it to be sixty miles. We found it\\nabout fifty-five miles, and it took us two days to reach\\nthe lake. The river is extremely crooked, the current\\nswift, and the water the best in south Florida. The\\nwidth at the ford is maintained throughout almost its", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "HS THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITI0:N\\nentire length, though narrowing in i3laccs near its\\nmouth. During the first thirty miles are occasional\\nlive-oak and* maple bluffs, but beyond that the river ran\\nthrough vast plains of cane and saw-gi ass, and between\\nlow willows. Many lagoons make up from the river.\\nIsolated clumps of magnolia grow in the marsh, appear-\\ning like large trees at a distance. Ten miles from the\\nford is a settler s cabin, the last on the river. Twenty\\nmiles from the lake is the last oak, and three miles from\\nthe lake a large cypress, from which a view of the lake\\ncan be obtained.\\nThe Kissimmee, as it enters the lake, forms a bay a\\nmile in width and depth, filled with lilies and water-\\nlettuce. There are two cypress trees near its mouth, but\\nall around is marsh. The most conspicuous birds on the\\nriver have been the limpkin, or crying bird, the white\\nibis, white heron, snake bird, and vulture. Black bass\\nare plentiful and large, perch, cat-fish, and bream also\\nabound. All the way down, on either side, is a pine\\nridge, from three to five miles away, sometimes ap-\\nproaching the river. It spreads out as it nears the lake,\\nand maintains the same distance on the west side, and\\nmerges itself in the cypress bordering the eastern shore.\\nIt is a little over a mile to the first projection of the bay,\\nwest, where cypress and grass shoals present a dreary\\nappearance. Back of this, however, is a drift of sand,\\nupon which grows a thin belt of elm, maj)le, and elder-\\nbeiTy, interlaced and overgrown with large grape vines.\\nBack of this sand, which must be covered at high- water,\\nis a dark lagoon, filled with alligators. A large fish-\\nhawk s nest here, induced us to call this place Osprey\\nPoint. A mile further is a camping place used by\\nIndians when hunting, all cypress. The sand is here", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "in\\nW\\n/I", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2992", "width": "3185", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITI02T, 249\\nsix inches above the lake, and a quiet lagoon affords\\nshelter for a boat. Detached belts of cypress and marsli\\noccur next, and the only place suitable for camping is\\nten miles south-west. We called it Mulberry Camp,\\nfrom the occurrence of that tree there. Besides mul-\\nberries, there are ash, maple, box-wood, cypress, India\\nrubber and elderberry. There are gigantic cypresses\\nhere, six feet in diameter, completely enclosed in the\\nIndia rubber, and covered with ivy.\\nThe shore trends south-west for about fifteen miles\\nfrom the Kissimmee, where along cypress hammock\\nends in a lone palmetto. Here a deep bay makes in\\nsome three miles, and is about five miles in width. At\\nthe end of this bay, tlie palmetto spurs from the main\\nridge approached within a mile. All south of this is an\\nunbroken marsh, deeply indented with bays, from which\\nblind creeks or slouglis ramify in every direction.\\nDue south of this palmetto point is a low willow island,\\nwith but a few inches of sand above water, covered with\\nnests of heron and snake-bird. A marsh extends to this\\nisland, and south of it is another deep bay. Below this\\nisland the shore trends southward for about eight miles,\\nthen the dip is south-east a desolate region, with a low,\\ndark line of willows bordering the shore. It has a very\\ndeceptive appearance, this same shore, as various shades\\nfrom the light of the grass shoals to the dark of the\\nwillows, make it seem very high, and the traveller is only\\ndisenchanted by a close inspection.\\nAbout thirty miles south by west of Kissimmee is the\\nonly island in the lake affording foothold to man. It is\\none and a half miles long and four miles from the south-\\nwest shore. It runs north-west and south-east, and is\\ndry upon its eastern or lake side, and marshy on the\\n11*", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "350 TnE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITIOK.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2vrestern, or shore side. It is nowhere more than a foot\\nabove tlie level of the water, a dry sand-ridge, covered\\nwith India rubber, ash, and sweet bay, with a few paw-\\npaws in fruit and flower. Nearly half an acre, at one\\nend, was covered with vines of the wild gourd. Upon\\nboth sides and at either end is a thick growth of willow,\\nwith some cypress. The northern end is covered with\\nthe dark vines of the ipomea, in which hundreds of white\\nherons and spoonbills have built their nests. From a tall\\ncypress here, the shore can be traced for many miles\\nnothing but marsh and marsh for miles, with a few\\npalmettoes, spurs from the main ridge some five miles\\nback. Due south of this island is a sand beach a mile\\nin length, covered with large cypress. It is but thirty\\nfeet wide, backed by interminable marsh. Some rare\\nminute fossil shells were found here. A bay two miles\\ndeep is found south of this point, and thence the shore\\ntrends south-east. The course from point to point is\\ndue east. There are three projecting points from the\\nmain marsh, of this, the southern end of Lake Okee-\\nchobee, covered with a vegetation strikingly different\\nfrom that of the western and northern shores. It is\\nhere that the water filters througli tlie grassy, marshy\\nrim to the south. The low custard apple is the only\\ntree here. Joint-grass and lilies are thickly filled in,\\nthe whole forming a mass easily permeated by the water.\\nThe lake terminates in three great bays, from five to\\nsix miles in width, curving easterly. If there are any\\nstreams leading out of them, they are not navigable, or\\neven discernible. Nearly opposite the island before\\nmentioned, Fish Eating creek comes in a large creek\\nin some places, but not navigable for our boat. Fort", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION-. 251\\nCentre, a military post in the last Indian war, was six\\nmiles from the lake upon this creek.\\nAfter this succession of bays and marsliy points the\\nshore suddenly turns northward, and vegetation assumes\\na different appearance. Cypress appear here and there,\\nand a thick sprinkling of ash and palmetto. About f our\\nmiles from the commencement of the northward dip, the\\nshore turns north-east. Three miles south of this curve\\nis a group of three islands, about two miles in length.\\nThey curve from south to north-east, and are nearly\\nsubmerged, only covered with ash, apparently, and low\\nwillows. At.this curve in the main shore ends the Ever-\\nglades, and commences a cypress belt that extends north-\\neast for thirty miles. The beach here is composed of\\ndisintegrated shells, and there are many species of salt-\\nwater shells thrown upon the shore. Fragments of\\ncoquina, also, were found here. There were tracks of\\ncoons and rabbits here, the first seen since leaving the\\nnorth-west shore. Moccasin snakes were unusually\\nplentiful, and unwound themselves from nearly every\\nfallen tree. A belt of cypress, in which is mingled all\\nthe trees mentioned as occurring in the hammocks of the\\nnorth-west shore, backs this white shell beach, the only\\nbreaks in which, to within two miles of the Kissimmee,\\nare, first a deep sound, fifteen miles sout i-east of the\\nKissimmee, and a bay two miles from that ri^ er. This\\nlatter bay so much resembles that of the Kissimmee that\\nit will puzzle one unless he examines it thoroughly.\\nTaylor s creek, and another smaller, empty into the lake\\nwithin ten miles of the Kissimmee, but their channels\\nare so choked with water-lettuce and lilies that an expe-\\nrienced eye is required to discern them.\\nThe lake is about forty miles long, by twenty-five in", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "252 THE OKEECHOBEE EXPEDITION\\nwidth. In length, the greatest from the mouth of the\\nKissimmce south-east in breadtli, near the centre. It\\nis very shallow, and grass shoals extend for miles into the\\nlake. Nowhere did we find a greater depth than twelve\\nfeet. In fish Okeechobee is deficient such is the violence\\nof the storms there, and such the shallowness of the lake,\\nthat it is often stirred to its very centre, and no fish of\\nordinary mould can survive such a stirring up. The\\nfish-food, also, the Crustacea, etc., is scarce. Alligators\\nare not so numerous as one would expect, except in the\\nlagoons and at the creek-mouths. Birds are not abun-\\ndant, with the exception of the fish-hawk, crying-birds,\\nsnake-birds, and heron. A complete list of the birds\\nwill be found in a separate chapter.\\nDuring all our voyage we saw but one man, beside\\nour party, and the only evidence of any people ever\\nhaving lived here was in the discovery of the remains of\\ntwo villages, the houses sunken to the ground, and the\\nplantations overrun with the wild growth of the swamp.\\nThis was upon the east shore, eleven miles east of the\\nKissimmee river. Bananas, paw-paws, sugar-cane, and\\nguavas were growing here in wild luxuriance. These\\nvillages belonged to a portion of the Okeechobee tribe\\nof Seminoles, now living in the Big Cypress, south-\\nwest of Lake Okeechobee.\\nFred Beverly.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "xxy.\\nFLOEIDA TKAVEL.\\nTHE St. Johns river is tlie great attraction for all\\ntourists but those who wish to examine a wild\\nand weird stream, should take one of Colonel Hart s\\nsteamers from Pilatka and ascend the Ochlawaha and\\nen route visit that great natural curiosity, Silver Spring.\\nOwing to the character of the navigation, the boats\\npresent an unpretending exterior but the accommoda-\\ntions and table can be recommended, more especially\\nwhen we take into consideration the low price of\\npassage.\\nA large number of steam-boats ply on the St. Johns\\nriver, and the tourist will find comfortable state-rooms\\nand well supplied tables. But visitors to Florida must\\nremember that the stewards of the boats cannot visit\\nFulton Market and buy in a stock of luxuries. When\\nwe take everything into consideration, we must con-\\ngratulate the owners of steamboats in the State for the\\nmanner in which they cater for their passengers.\\nJacksonville, the great objective j^oi^t, is well sup-\\nplied with hotels, and innumerable private boarding\\nhouses. At Magnolia, Hibernia, Green Cove Spring,\\nPilatka, Mellon ville, and Enterprise, excellent hotels will\\nbe found. For the information of intendins: tourists", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "254 FLORIDA TRAVEL.\\nand sportsmen we will furnish rates to all important\\nlandings on the St. Johns river.\\nFare to all landings between Jacksonville and Green Cove\\nSpring $1 00\\nFare to all landings above Green Cove Spring to Pilatka 2 00\\nMeals Extra.\\nJacksonville to San Mateo 4 00\\nWelaka 5 00\\nLake George Landing 6 00\\nVolusea 7 00\\nBlue Spring 8 00\\nEnterprise and Mellon ville 9 00\\nLake Harris 13 00\\nSaltLake 14 00\\nState-room and meals included in fare to all points beyond\\nPilatka.\\nCharge for row boats to Enterprise $3 to 6\\nSaltLake 8\\nFrom Salt Lake, passengers can secure transportation\\nto Indian river for about $5. Freight one-half cent per\\npound. A small steamer has been placed on Indian\\nriver, but as yet nothing definite has been determined\\nregarding fare or time of departure. So much has\\nalready been written about Indian river as an attractive\\npoint for sportsmen that I shall refrain from adding\\nmy mite.\\nNew Smyrna, on the Halifax river, can be reached\\nfrom Enterprise, but as Colonel Alden has so thoroughly\\nwritten up the locality in the columns of the public\\npress, we shall refrain from commenting upon its\\nclimate, bathing, and piscatorial attractions. But we\\nare compelled to state that sportsmen will find the Colo-\\nnel approachable, and ever ready to furnish information\\nregarding his section.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "FLORIDA TRAVEL. 255\\nSt. Augustine can be readied from Tocoi by railroad.\\nThe road is fourteen miles in lengtli and the charge for\\npassage $2.50. The price may seem exorbitant, but\\ntravellers must remember that travel is limited, and that\\nthe road must earn sufficient, in three months to run it\\nfor twelve. Excellent hotel accommodations will be\\nfound in St. Augustine, and in addition, the tourist can\\nchoose between a number of private boarding houses.\\nIf any adA-enturous sporting reader T\\\\dshes to indulge\\nin an agreeable and romantic trip, w^e would advise him\\nto obtain a light flat-bottomed boat, eighteen to twenty\\nfeet long, five feet beam, with centre-board and sprit sail.\\nForward it to Jacksonville by sailing vessel or steamer\\nfrom Jacksonville to Mellonville by steamboat. Trans-\\nport boat from Mellonville to Lake Hoptaliga by wagon,\\na distance of about thirty- five miles, at an expense of\\n$25. From the lake descend the Kissimmee river to\\nLake Okeechobee, a distance of about one hundred and\\nsixty miles. The river is bounded by extensive prairies,\\nand the hunter can indulge in deer shooting to his satis-\\nfaction. Ducks and gators exist in immense quantities,\\nand bass (trout) fishing will be found to be excellent.\\nOwing to the prevalence of easterly winds, the open\\nnature of the country and the rapid current, Okeechobee\\ncan be reached in three days from Hoptaliga.\\nFrom the mouth of the Kissimmee to the mouth of\\nFish Eating creek is a distance of about thirty miles.\\nBut to find the entrance to the latter stream is the rub.\\nThree parties have descended the Kissimmee, and\\nsearched for the mouth of the creek, but failed to find\\nit. I pi-opose entering it before next spring, from the\\nlake, and if I succeed, I will erect a pole at its mouth,\\nsurmounted with a tin can.- The best directions I can", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "256 FLORIDA TRAVEL.\\nfurnish to parties desirous of entering the creek are as\\nfollows\\nFrom the mouth of the Kissimmce river to Fish Eat-\\ning creek the course of the lake shore is south-west by\\nwest, about thirty miles and from the mouth of the\\ncreek the trend of the shore is south-south-east. The\\nbearings of the lake shore will guide the wanderer in\\nfinding the entrance of the creek. North of the creek\\nless than one mile, a very large cypress will he noticed in\\nthe lake, about six hundred feet from the shore. Owing\\nto the prevalence of easterly winds, the- mouth of the\\ncreek will probably be found obstructed by floating let-\\ntuce, but the channel can be discovered by keeping near\\nthe shore and sounding with a pole. To escape the\\ndifficulties attending the navigation of the creek (for two\\nand a half miles, beginning at the lake), inconsequence\\nof the presence of lettuce, we would advise parties to take\\nto the nuu-sh opposite the large cypress, and pursue south-\\nwest by west course, which will land them in the creek\\nabove the obstruction in an ordinary state of water a boat\\ncan be pushed through the saw-grass and lity-pads.\\nProceeding up the creek about five miles, an immense\\nmound will be noticed on the left bank. This has not\\nbeen opened to any extent, and if archseologically inclined\\nthe tourist may amuse himself. Six miles above the\\nmound a ford will be discovered, and this i)oint is named\\nNew Fort Centre. By proceeding a few miles above the\\ncrossing, the sportsman could camp on the banks of the\\ncreek under the protecting branches of some huge live-\\noak, and indulge in the best deer and turkey shooting in\\nthe United States. The creek is noted for its numbers\\nof large trout (bass).\\nThe question of how to reach the Caloosahatchie Avill", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "FLORIDA TKAVEL. 257\\nbe asked. The pedestrian of the party must provide\\nhimself with a bottle of water, and some provisions, and\\ntake the old military road at the ford and follow it\\nfor twelve miles in a south-west direction, when Mr.\\nCarlton s residence will be discovered. I arranged with\\nMr. Carlton to transport boat and traps for any party from\\nthe creek to Fort Thompson, at the head of navigation,\\non the Caloosahatchie. The price agreed upon v\\\\ath Mr.\\nCarlton, for self, wagon, and team, was $3 per day. Going\\nto and returning from the creek would require two days,\\nand entail an expense of $6. I engaged Mr. Carlton to\\ncarry me to Fish Eating creek, and formed a very favor-\\nable opinion of him.\\nAt the rapids, large trout and cavalli, weighing three\\nto four pounds, can be captured. As a general rule, a\\nnumber of Indians will be found in camp at the fort,\\nand superior buckskins can be purchased from them\\nfor 81 per skin. The descent of the Caloosahatchie a\\ndistance of about 110 miles vv ill be found to be an enjoy-\\nable trip. When Pimta Eassa is reached, the wanderer\\nmay do up Charlotte Harbor, or take the steamer Valley\\nCity on Tuesday and reach Cedar Keys on Thursday.\\nThe trip from Jacksonville, and return via Punta\\nEassa and Cedar Keys, a distance of about 1,000 miles\\ncould be made in a limited period and at a trifling\\nexpense. We are under the imi3ression that we could do\\nit up in the time indicated below 2 days to Mellonville\\n2 days to Hoptaliga 4 days to Okeechobee 2 days to\\nFish Eating creek 1 day to Fort Centre 3 days to be\\noccupied in transporting boat to Fort Thompson 4 days\\nfrom Fort T. to Punta Eassa 2 days from Punta Eassa\\nto Cedar Keys 1 day from Cedar Keys to Jacksonville\\nor twenty-one days for the round trip.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "258 FLORIDA TRATEL.\\nI may remark that boats can be purchased in Jack-\\nsonville but, as they are generally built of yellow pine,\\nthey are heavy and apt to leak. Before leaving Jackson-\\nville, or Mellon ville, a party should provide themselves\\nwith a pushing pole sixteen feet long.\\nIt seems strange that Florida is almost the oldest\\nsettled portion of the United States, and up to the\\npresent time no person has left the Atlantic coast and\\nreached the Gulf through the medium of a boat, via\\nSt. Johns, Kissimmee, Okeechobee, and Caloosahatchie,\\nand for the obvious reason that no one has been able to\\n,find the mouth of Fish Eating creek. If I can find the\\nright kind of a companion, I will make the attempt\\nin December or January. I have recently received one\\nof Bond s sectional boats, sixteen feet long, and propose\\ntesting its applicability for the trip. South-west Florida\\nis a sportsman s paradise, and truly worth visiting.\\nFrosts are unknown, rain seldom falls during the winter\\nmonths, the days are not uncomfortably warm, and the\\nhealth is unexceptionable.\\nAl Feesco.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "XXVI.\\nHOMOSASSA\u00e2\u0080\u0094 TALLAHASSEE.\\nSINCE my last communication was mailed, I have\\nreceiyed a letter from E. J. Harris, Esq., of Ocala,\\nin answer to one of mine and I shall copy portions of\\nit for the benefit of intending tourists\\nYours of the 4th was received the other day, relative\\nto the route and conveyances to Homosassa. Alfred\\nDavis, a well-to-do colored man, who keeps horses and\\nvehicles to hire, agreed with me at the following prices\\nEor carrying one person and his baggage from Ocala to\\nHomosassa, $10. For two j)ersons, at the same time, 812\\nor $6 each. For three persons or more, at the same time,\\n$5 each. His vehicles consist of one hack with cover,\\nand one one-horse bugg}^ He says that he will have\\nanother two-horse hack soon. Davis will pay the ferriage\\nover the Withlacoochee river, and all expenses of driver\\nand team.\\nThe distance is somewhere about forty-six miles\\nthat is to the landing on Mr. Yulee s old plantation.\\nThe road, for Florida, is neither good nor bad, but what\\nyou would call middling a part of it over sand-hills.\\nBut by taking an early start, the trip may be made in a\\nday, which Davis proposes to do. I think the price rea-\\nsonable enough, considering the distance. There will be\\nother horses and vehicles to hire. I also will keep, the", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "260 HOMOSASSA TALLAHASSEE.\\ncoming season, horses and hacks chiefly to run between\\nthis (Ocala) and Silver Spring, and convey persons free\\nof cost, that may want to stop at my house. I have a\\nhouse at Silver Spring, and will have it fitted up in good\\nstyle by January, to run in connection with my hotel\\nin Ocala.\\nIn addition to the remarks of Mr. Harris, I may state\\nthat the old plantation on the Homosassa river to which\\nhe refers is distant from Jones residence about two\\nmiles. I will communicate with J., and he will make\\narrangements for the transportation of guests on their\\narrival at the end of the hack journey.\\nI cannot refrain from expressing an opinion with\\nregard to Ocala, as a winter resort for invalids. The\\nland is high, and the air is pure and dry. Last fall I\\nadvised two ladies to winter there one was suffering\\nfrom tuberculosis of the left lung and the other from\\nneuralgia and general debility. In both cases, relief was\\nobtained. Mr. Harris as well as his better half, are\\nkindness itself. The hotel is large, but old-fashioned\\nand, if he is justified, Mr. Harris will refurnish it. The\\naccommodations are fair and tlie table very good for an\\ninland locality. The terms of board are about $25 per\\nmonth. Ocala boasts of a telegraph station, and a mail\\nfour times weekly. The population numbers about four\\nhundred. The great objection to the place, is the exist-\\nence of fleas and we would recommend intending visit-\\nors to supply themselves with quantum siijf. of insect\\npowder. The other day, I was favored with a visit from\\none of the city fathers of Ocala and advised him to\\nsecure the passage of an ordinance by the council, remov-\\ning hogs from the city limits as these animals are to a\\ngreat extent the cause of fleas. He assured me that he", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "HOMOSASSA TALLAHASSEE. 261\\nwould use his efforts to accomplisli the desired end. As\\na winter residence for the consumptive, we have no hesi-\\ntation in recommending Ocala. For the sportsman it\\npossesses no attractions.\\nAs a resort for sportsmen, the fine country around\\nTallahassee has been overlooked. Before the war, a\\nlarge area was under cultivation in cotton, and, as a con-\\nsequence, old fields surronnd the city in every direction,\\nand these literally swarm with quail. In fact, I ques-\\ntion if they can be found as plentiful in any other sec-\\ntion of the ITnited States. East of Tallahassee is Lake\\nLafayette, six miles in length and four miles north of\\nthe city Lake Jackson, seventeen miles long. During the\\nwinter months these lake swarm with duck and brant,\\nand the gunnist may enjoy himself until surfeited. To\\nthe angler Lake Jackson presents many attractions, as it\\nis well stocked with some of the largest bass and bream\\nto be found in the State.\\nLi order that I might supply the reader with valuable\\ninformation, I addressed my friend F. B. Papy, Esq.,\\nof the J. P. M. K. E., and in reply received the fol-\\nlowing\\nTallahassee, Florida, Sept. 16, 1875.\\nDear Sir Your favor of the 7th, to Mr. F. B.\\nPapy, to hand he is now absent north, but I hope the\\ninformation I may give will serve you.\\nQ. At what season does brant and duck shooting\\nexist in perfection A. From middle of November to\\nmiddle of March.\\nQ. Have you any woodcock in your section during\\nthe winter A. Very few.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "262 HOMOS ASS A TALLAHASSEE.\\nQ. Can comfortable board be obtained at Lake\\nJackson A. Country board.\\nQ. Can comfortable board be obtained where qnail\\nare plentiful and terms A. Yes terms, $8 to $10\\nper week.\\n^Q. AVhat are the terms for board in your city?\\nA. Hotel, $3.50 per diem private board, $8 to $12.50\\nper week.\\n*^Q. Can boats be obtained at Lake Jackson A.\\nYes.\\nArrangements are in progress as regards excursion\\ntickets to Tallahassee. Will be happy to give any infor-\\nmation in my power, as well as any of the citizens of the\\nvicinity. Favorable excursion rates will be effected\\nbetween Jacksonville and Middle Florida during the\\nseason, which will be announced in due time.\\nVery truly yours,\\nWm. E. Ames,\\nFor F. B. Papy.\\nTallahassee is easily reached from Jacksonville, and is\\nwell worth visiting by the sportsman. Upon arrival at\\ndepot, if Mr. Papy is interviewed he will furnish all\\nnecessary information. He is a capital shot, an ardent\\nsportsman, and his statements can be relied upon.\\nTallahassee is rather an uncomfortable locality for car-\\npet-baggers and scallawags, but the gentlemanly sports-\\nman will meet with a true southern welcome from all\\nand will be treated with the utmost kindness and cour-\\ntesy. I am a Northern man, and speak from experience.\\nSoutherners have been misrepresented by bigoted and\\nnarrow-minded Northerners who have visited the State,\\nand false impressions have been produced. A few", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "H0:M0SASSA TALLAHASSEE. 263\\nprejudiced persons have visited tlie South, and have taken\\nadvantage of every opportunity to ventihite their crotch-\\nety and angular points. They have received the cold\\nshoulder, and in their correspondence have resorted to\\nmisrepresentations. I have wandered around the world,\\nand in the United States from the head of Lake Supe-\\nrior to the Gulf of Mexico and during my many wan-\\nderings in various portions of Florida, I have invariably\\nbeen treated with kindness, courtesy, and hospitality in\\nfact, I have never met with the same kind and courteous\\ntreatment anywhere else. To the sportsman unac-\\nquainted with Florida I will simply say, be courteous and\\nreasonable, and a true southern welcome, and the most\\nunbounded hospitality, will be extended everywhere and\\nby all.\\nAl Fkesco.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "XXVII.\\nSOUTH-AYEST FLOEIDA.\\n1. Fek]S andika to Cedar Keys.\\nrpHIS is the 25tli of February. On the 5th of last\\nJ- December, I left New York on the steamer Gulf\\nStream for Charleston, in company with Frank and\\nHarry, to whom I shall refer in the future. My boat\\n(the Spray), with necessaries for the trip, was shipped at\\nPhiladelphia for Savannah. On the night of the 7tli, Hat-\\nteras favored us with quantum stiff, of wind and a cross sea\\nwithout any foot. Although an old sea-dog, I was forced\\nto succumb to the remedial measures of old Nep. After\\nmany voyages we fancy that we are competent to express\\nan opinion regarding the sea-going qualities of steam-\\nships and sailing vessels, and have no hesitation in stat-\\ning, that the Gulf Stream is remarkable for many good\\nqualities in a heavy sea. We reached Charleston on the\\n8th, at nine p. M., and at eleven p. m. found ourselves\\nin one of the comfortable state-rooms of the good\\nsteamer Dictator, en route for Savannah. The latter\\nplace we reached on the 9th, at six a. m., and at twelve m.\\nleft for Feruandina, and arrived at the latter place at", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "FERNANDIls A TO CEDAR KEYS. 265\\none A. M. on the 10th, where we knded the Spray\\nand her crew.\\nWe have visited Florida on many occasions, and have\\ntested the sea-going qualities of the Dictator and City\\nPoint, plying between Charleston, Savannah, Fernan-\\ndina, Jacksonville, and Pilatka, and can unhesitatingly\\nrecommend them to the travelling public. The traveller\\nwho patronizes one of these boats will find large and\\npleasantly furnished forward and after cabins, large\\nstate-rooms, good beds, clean linen, and excellent table,\\nand last, though not least, efficient, courteous, and atten-\\ntive officers and servants. To those who are anxious to\\nescape the buffetings of old mother ocean, we would\\nsay, take a sleeping car on the A. G. R. R. from\\nSavannah, and Jacksonville can be reached in a pleas-\\nant manner. Upon reaching Savannah the traveller will\\nfind the Lizzie Baker advertised to take the inside route\\nto Florida. The statement is only true to a certain\\nextent, as the Lizzie B. is compelled to take the outside\\nroute from Fernandina Harbor to the river St. John,\\nwhich is the most dangerous portion of the route, and\\nas the Lizzie B. is not as well adapted to cross the St.\\nJohns bar or to contend with heavy seas as the Dictator\\nor City Point, we unhesitatingly advise the tourist to\\ntake passage on one of the latter.\\nHaving shipped our future home, the Spray, on a\\nflat car, we left Fernandina on the morning of Friday the\\n11th, and at five p. m. found ourselves at Cedar Keys.\\nWc travelled over this road in February, 1873, and compli-\\nment the management upon the improved condition of\\nthe road- bed and motive power. One great drawback\\nto Cedar Keys is the absence of a good hotel, and we are\\neatisfied that a well-conducted house, with a good table", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "2(i6 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA,\\nand ])roperly cooked food, would iPiduce many tourista\\nto visit tliis locality. Fishing, hunting, and shooting in\\nthe neighborhood are good the bathing excellent,\\nand the climate superior to that of Jacksonville. It\\nseems to us that parties interested in the railroad\\nwould materially benefit themselves by erecting a first-\\nclass hotel at Cedar Keys,\\nAVe expected to leave Cedar Keys for Manatee on the\\n12th, by the steamer Emilie, but owing to the detention\\nof the steamer Clyde, plying between New Orleans,\\nCedar Keys, and Havana, our departure was delayed until\\nthe 15th. To while away the dull hours, Ave proposed\\nengaging in piscatorial pursuits, but were informed that\\nit was too warm for sea trout to bite, Placing no\\ndependence in the statement of the local authorities, I\\nwas resolved to test the matter, and secured several\\nhundred minnows and proceeded to the railroad dock.\\nWith live bait we caught sea trout (weak fish) ranging\\nfrom two to six pounds, as fast as we could bait and land\\nthem. On many occasions we landed a brace weighing\\nfrom four to five pounds each. The first day we filled\\na flour barrel, and the second we abandoned the sport\\nwlien we had captured 120 pounds. Around the dock\\nsea-bass and porgies can be caught with cut bait, and\\nslieepshead with fiddlers. On the points and about the\\nreefs a few miles from town, superior red and grouper\\nfishing can be obtained at Cedar Keys. The sportsman\\nwill find unbounded hospitality, and courteous attention\\nun the part of the inhabitants. Invitations to join\\nhunting and fishing expeditions were showered upon us,\\nbut we were forced to decline. From this point the\\ntourist may take a steamship to New Orleans, Tampa,\\nPunta Rcissa, Key West, or Havana. For the purpose", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "FERNAlfDINA TO CEDAR KEYS. 267\\nof cruising along the coast, or general sporting purposes,\\nsuitable boats with experienced sailing masters can be\\nengaged at from four to six dollars per day. Persons\\ndesiring information, wishing to secure boats, or the ser-\\nvices of sailing masters, may address Messrs. Willard\\nRaoux, or the post-master, J. F. Jackson. These\\ngentlemen would only be too happy to furnish any infor-\\nmation required, as well as assist sportsmen in every way\\nupon their arrival. If these gentlemen are called upon\\nby the disciples of the rod and gun, we will guarantee\\nthem a hearty welcome, and any assistance required.\\nAt this point we were introduced to a gentleman named\\nAlfred E. Jones, residing at Homosassa, who invited\\nus to spend a fortnight at his residence. In another\\ncommunication we have refered to his hospitality and the\\nattractions of his locality.\\nAt Cedar Keys we instituted numerous inquiries\\nregarding Bronson, the county seat of Levy county, dis-\\ntant thirty miles from Cedar Keys, on the line of rail-\\nroad to Fernandina. Fare from New York to Bronson,\\nby Hermon Gelpcke s line (via Fernandina), $25. In the\\nneighborhood of Bronson deer are plenty also turkeys,\\nbrant, duck, and quail can be found in abundance.\\nChunky Pond is distant from the village about two\\nmiles it is about two miles long and one wide, connect-\\ning with a number of smaller ponds which extend for a\\ndistance of about nine miles. These ponds contain bream\\nand trout (bass) in endless numbers the latter ranging\\nfrom one to fifteen pounds. Persons visiting, or desir-\\nous of visiting Bronson, would do well to call upon or\\ncommunicate with Mr. G. Levett, the county clerk.\\nThe hotel at Bronson can accommodate fifteen visitors\\nboard $7 per week. Dr. Johnson would accommodate", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "268 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\ntwo or three, and Mr. Levett, the same number board\\n^5 per week. As a guide to the best fishing points, the\\nvisitor can secure the services of James Pruden, and\\nfor deer and turkey hunting, J. K. Tunlon or W. B.\\nKinsey.\\nWe spent several days very pleasantly at Cedar Keys\\nand made numerous acquaintances, and in concluding I\\ncannot refrain from referring to a local institution. One\\nevening, at nine p. m. Messrs. AVillard Raoux invited us\\nto visit the rear of their store, where we found a portion\\nof the shell of a boiler, supported by brick piers under\\nthe boiler was a large fire, and on the top thereof two\\nbarrels of Cedar Keys oysters. As the heat opened the\\noysters the crew of the Spray went for them, and I must\\npositively decline mentioning what proportion of the\\naforesaid oysters the Sprayites deposited beneath their\\nbelts.\\n2. Manatee, Sarasota, akd Gasparilla.\\nWe left Cedar Keys Tuesday evening, on steamer\\nEmilie, Captain Lefferts, and arrived at Manatee on the\\nmorning of Wednesday the 16th. This vessel makes\\nweekly trips between Cedar Keys, Manatee, Tampa,\\nPunta Rassa, and Key West. Tourists and sportsmen\\nwill find this steamer an excellent and comfortable\\nsea-boat, and her commander an old and experienced\\nsailor one who is ever attentive to make his passen-\\ngers comfortable. In referring to the able and oblig-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "MANATEE, SARASOTA, AND GASPARILLA. 269\\ning captain^ we must not nosflect mentioning the effi-\\ncient, courteous, and gentlemanly purser. To those\\nwho wish to enjoy a balmy atmosphere, an equable and\\nsalubrious climate, and a sea voyage over a calm ocean,\\nwe would say, take an excursion ticket on the Emilie\\nfrom Cedar Keys to Key AVest and return.\\nWe are surprised that Mr. Clyde, owner of the Gal-\\nveston line of steamships touching at Key West, and\\nMr. J. K. Koberts of the South-west Florida Coast line,\\ndo not arrange with the Pennsylvania Eailroad Com-\\npany, to issue excursion tickets, good for the round trip.\\nIf this arrangement could be effected, tourists could\\nleave ^ew York by steamer during the pleasant autum-\\nnal weather and lay over at Key West or intermediate\\npoints before reaching the grand objective point of\\nFlorida the city of Jacksonville. Tlie return trip to\\nthe North could be made by rail, thereby avoiding the\\nunpleasant storms that prevail on the Atlantic coast\\nduring February and March. This arrangement would\\nenable invalids to enjoy the superior climate, and sports-\\nmen to pai ticipate in the unrivalled fishing and shoot-\\ning of the south-west coast at a reasonable outlay of time\\nand money. To popularize the route, we are convinced\\nthat it would pay interested parties to publish, for the\\nbenefit of tourists and sportsmen, a small guide descrip-\\ntive of the route, climate, best points for fishing and\\nshooting, where to obtain guides and boats, necessaries\\nfor outfits, etc. We have long maintained that the\\nsouth-west coast needs but to have its advantages known\\nto be appreciated.\\nWe launched our future home, the Spray, at Mana-\\ntee, and for the benefit of others we shall describe the\\nboat and outfit. Possessing a limited knowledge of the", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "270 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\ncoast, we were convinced fchat a boat of an ordinary\\nyacht model was not adapted to our wants, as she would\\ndraw too mucli water for the navigation of creeks, ba-\\nyous and shallow rivers, and ground on the mud flats and\\noyster bars so extensively distributed in all the bays of\\nthe coast. A flat-bottomed or bateau-modelled boat was\\nnot adapted to our wants, as she would prove unsuitable\\nfor outside work, and would not work well to windward.\\nBefore purchasing, we examined a number of boats in\\nNew York and Philadelphia, but failed to find what we\\nrequired. Continuing our search, we visited Burlington,\\nNew Jersey, and found the Spray for sale and she was\\npurchased. Having traversed nearly three degrees of\\nlatitude, and two and three-quarters of longitude in the\\nSpray, we are in a position to form an opinion, and\\nwould unhesitatingly advise intending tourists to secure\\na boat of similar model, as we found her in every way\\nadapted to a boat journey on the south-west coast.\\nLength of Spray, twenty-one feet beam, seven feet cat\\nrigged centre-board form of bottom, midway between\\nbateau and yacht deep scag forward decked over for-\\nward seven feet movable cabin, six feet six inches.\\nThis form of hull sui3plies room for stowage, light\\ndraught of water rows well is remarkably stiff and\\ndry and comfortable in a sea-way.\\nOutfit, two pairs of oars canvas awning to stretch\\nover boom, and fasten to screw eyes in each quarter (thus\\nprotecting after part of boat), anchor and cable, palm,\\nneedles and sail twine, lantern, lampwick, lard oil, five-\\ngallon water-keg, bucket, broom, spade, axe, saw, screw-\\ndriver, gimlet, hammer, oyster knife, compass, binocular\\nglass, small stove, frying pan, coflee-j)ot, tin stew-pan,\\ntin cups and plates, knives and forks, nails, screws, screw", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "MAKATEE, SARASOTA, AND GAS PARILLA. 27i\\neyes, tinned 10-oz. tacks, whetstone, matches in tin boxes,\\nsoap, towels, combs, hair and tooth brushes, pens, paper,\\nink postage stamps, envelopes, two feed chests, sugar in\\nround wooden boxes with lids, pickles, cheese, pepper,\\nsalt, ten pounds best Java cotiee in tin box, six cans con-\\ndensed milk, forty-eight pounds best lard in eight-pound\\ntin cans, ninety- four pounds best pilot bread, fifty pounds\\nbest breakfast bacon, two hams, two boxes red herrings,\\nold boots, shoes, slippers, and clothes, blankets, with\\nquantum suff. of old calico and newspapers, powder, shot,\\nwads, caps, cartridges, gun-cleaning apparatus, Oolton s\\nand Drew s maps of Florida, one Winchester and Rem-\\nington rifle, one breech and two muzzle-loading guns,\\nhunting knives, fishing rods and tackle three pounds\\narsenic in tin box diarrhoea mixture, lead and opium\\npills for dysentery, purgative pills, and adhesive and\\ncourt plaster, in tin cans tobacco, pipes, one bottle of\\nbrandy, and one of apple-jack. Verily, along list of\\nplunder, but everything absolutely necessary for such an\\nexpedition.\\nOur numerous necessaries were stowed, and we visited\\na neighboring saw-mill to secure spring mattresses. The\\nproprietor sawed us four boards five-eighths of an inch\\nthick, and three pieces one inch thick and four inches wide.\\nTo ari ange our sleeping apartment at night, we placed\\nthe stove in the cock-pit the 1x4 pieces athwart ship,\\nand the boards forward and aft. At night we anchored\\nthe Spray as far as possible from land, placed the soft\\nside of the boards uppermost arranged our blankets\\nsecured our awning, and sle2:\u00c2\u00bbt as only men can sleep,\\nwhen inhaling the balmy and invigorating atmosphere of\\nSouth-west Florida.\\nManatee is a pleasant village of several hundred in-", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "272 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nhabitants, situated on the Manatee river, eight miles from\\nits mouth. At this place, tlie tourist will find two or\\nthree boarding houses, where fair accommodations can\\nbe obtained for two dollars per day, or forty dollars per\\nmonth. This place offers to the invalid a pleasant win-\\nter climate, but to the sportsman few attractions. On\\nSaturday, the 19th, we hoisted sail and bade adieu to\\nManatee. Leaving the mouth of the river we took a\\nwesterly course for the striped buoy in Tampa Bay, and\\nfrom buoy, a south-west course to the tripod on Anna\\nMaria Key, from a point near the tripod a south-east\\ncourse to Palmasota Point, the entrance to Sarasota Bay.\\nBetween these points the channel was filled with mullet,\\nand hundreds of large sharks were revelling in the su-\\nperabundant supply of delicious food.\\nEntering Sarasota Bay, we were greeted with a south-\\neaster with some sea, but the Spray worked admirably,\\nand proved herself an excellent sea-boat. Night ap-\\nproaching, we made a harbor under the lee of a long\\nsand-bar, and after cooking our supper we laid our weary\\nlimbs on our spring beds. At ten p. m. the wind hauled,\\nand we found our position an uncomfortable one, com-\\npelling us to hoist anchor and seek a better harbor. The\\nnight being dark, I handled the lead, and stationed\\nHarry at the helm. With the lead we kept in the chan-\\nnel, and made tracks for the southern end of Sarasota\\nBay. At eleven p. m. we sighted two passes in the dis-\\ntance, one of which we had reason to believe would carry\\nus to sea, and the other into Little Sarasota Bay. We ob-\\njected to a night adventure on the Gulf, with an uncom-\\nfortable sea running, and as we had been informed that the\\nentrance into Little Sarasota Bay was blocked up with\\ndangerous coon oyir+er reefs, except a narrow boat chan-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "MANATEE, SAllASOTA, AND GASPAKILLA. 213\\nnel, we deemed it best to seek an anchorage, and having\\nfound shelter from the waves under the lee of an exten-\\nsive grassy flat, we came to an anchor.\\nNext morning we took a survey of the surroundings,\\nand found that we had anchored at the south end of\\nGreat Sarasota Bay. We noticed a house near the beach,\\nmade a landing, and were gratified to find that the resi-\\nients were from Brooklyn, Xew York, and named Ben-\\nnett. Being unacquainted with the coast farther south,\\nand aware of the fact that a trip of thirty-eight miles to sea\\nwas before us, we deemed it best to secure a pilot. Ben-\\nnett Junior was acquainted w4th the coast, and offered\\nto pilot us, but could not leave until Bennett Senior\\nreturned from Manatee with their boat. The elder\\nBennett returned on Monday night, and we arranged for\\nan early start on Tuesday morning. Sailing about three\\nmiles across the bay, we entered Sarasota Pass, a chan-\\nnel of about 500 feet in width, leading from the bay to\\nthe Gulf. Approaching the entrance we discovered two\\nchannels, one leading direct to the Gulf, but bounded on\\neach side by extensive sand-bars the other a swamp\\nchannel turning short to the south, around the north\\npoint of Casey s Key, and protected seaward by an ex-\\ntensive sand-bar. We chose the latter, and soon found\\nourselves on the Gulf, with a fair wind.\\nA reference to Drew s and Colton s niaps w*ill lead\\nthe intending tourist to believe that he will find five\\navailable passes between Little Sarasota and Little Gas-\\nparilla inlets. But these maps are unreliable as far as\\nthe south-west coast is concerned. If we had relied upon\\nthese maps, and attempted this portion of the coast witli-\\nout a pilot, we would have experienced disappointment,\\nif not something worse. The distance between the", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "274 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\npasses referred to is thirty-eight miles. x\\\\t noon the\\nwind died awiiy, and we were compelled to resort to an\\nashen breeze. Wednesday morning at daylight, we\\nsighted Little Gasparilla Pass. At low tide the pass is\\nabout 150 feet wide, with two entrances, one leading in\\nfi om the south, and the other a swash channel which\\nhugs the north point. We chose the latter, and at\\nsunrise we anchored inside the pass, discharged the pilot,\\nand captured a mess of sheepshead for breakfast. After\\nbreakfast we got under weigh for our objective point.\\nLake Okeechobee. Possessing no knowledge of the\\nroute to be traversed, and anticipating dithculties during\\nthe journey, we resolved upon pushing ahead, and on\\nour return make a careful examination of bays, rivers,\\nand keys.\\nFrom Little Gasparilla to Great Gasparilla passes,\\nthe distance is about two and a quarter miles. To keep\\nin the channel the island must be kept close aboard.\\nWhen Great Gasparilla Pass opens, the traveller must\\nfollow the channel as though he intended proceeding to\\nsea, and at the southern point of Little Gasparilla\\nKey he will sight a channel tending in an east-south-\\neast course, which must be followed to clear a long and\\nextensive sand-bar, extending from the northerly point\\nof Great Gasparilla Key. Rounding the i)oint of the sand-\\nbar, a channel with six to nine feet of water will be found,\\nleading in a north-easterly direction, which must be fol-\\nlowed. Three miles from the pass (Great Gasparilla), an\\nisland will be approached, and this must be left about\\n100 yards to port. From this island a course south by\\neast must be steered to within 200 yards of the inner\\nportion of northern point of Lacosta Island. Having\\ncrossed Boca Grande entrance, and reached the point", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "A7J0XG THE KEYS. 275\\nreferred to, some fishermen s palmetto huts will be\\nsighted, Avhere fresh water can be obtained, and a safe\\nharbor found.\\nBoca Grande entrance is nearly a mile wide, with\\ndeep water and a rapid tidal current. If a strong south-\\nerly wind is blowing against an ebb tide, a troublesome\\nsea will be encountered at this entrance, and the tourist\\nmust govern his movements accordingly. Along this coast\\nthe tides differ from those of our Northern States. In-\\nstead of two tides in the twenty-four hours, but one\\nflood and one ebb will be found. At this point I may\\nremark, that the bays north of Tampa are remarkable\\nfor extensive mud and grassy flats, and coon oyster bars,\\nrendering navigation difficult to the uninitiated. The\\nwater in all the bays is very clear, and if too much sea is\\nnot running the tourist can pick his way through the\\nintricate channels by observing the color of the water.\\nA day s experience in one of these bays, with a few ex-\\nperiments in stepping overboard and pushing his boat\\noff oyster bars and mud flats, will educate him sufficiently\\nto avoide the necessity of the frequent utterance of\\nlanguage not adapted to ears polite.\\n3. AMOiq-G THE Keys.\\nIn my last communication I referred to a spade as\\na portion of our outfit, aud mentioned the fact that a\\nsupply of fresh water could be obtained at the fish ranch\\non the northern end of Lacosta Island. To the tourist,\\na supply of fresh water is indispensable, and if his boat\\nis small the quantity carried must be limited, and how\\nto obtain a supply is an important matter. Nearly", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "21!Q SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nall the islands and keys are supplied with fresh water,\\nand the tourist will be informed that this indispensable\\nlluid can be obtained almost anywhere on the islands\\nor keys by digging a hole near the beach. Water of\\nfair quality can be obtained on most of the islands and\\nkeys, if the proper site is selected for the well. In\\ndigging for water, the experienced invariably select a\\nlocality where there are no mangrove bushes, for wher-\\never this growth is found, water will be impregnated\\nwith salt. On the bay side of most of the islands and\\nmain land a low-growing bush or tree will be found,\\nwith circular shaped leaves four inches wide, and the\\nsearcher for fresh water should prospect near this growth,\\nas fresh water will generally be found near the surface.\\nWe dug a well on the northern end of Little Gasparilla,\\nforty feet from the beach, and curbed it with an empty\\nbarrel we picked up on the beach. From half flood\\nuntil half ebb the water was very salt, but at low tide\\nwe found it palatable. After finishing our well, we\\nexplored the island, and found about its centre a la-\\ngoon several hundred yards in length, containing excel-\\nlent water.\\nFrom the fish ranch on the eastern end of Lacosta\\nIsland, we started across, south-east by south three miles,\\nand found ourselves abreast of the northern end of\\nUscppa Island. At six p. m. we landed on the eastern\\nside of the island, at the foot of a large shell mound.\\nTo the south of the large mound we found two wells of\\nexcellent water, and on the north side some very large\\nfigs, with a full supply of superior limes. Searching\\nfarther we discovered a luxurious banana patch, but the\\nfruit was not ripe. The island is over one mile in\\nlength and one-third of a mile in width at the widest", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "AMONG THE KEYS. 277\\npoint. In the centre of this island will be found several\\nlarge shell mounds, the largest about sixty feet high.\\nThe southern extremity of the island is covered with\\nlive-oak and mangrove trees. From the mounds to the\\nnorthern end, the island is clothed with a luxuriant\\ngrowth of live-oak and palms, and is the highest land to\\nbe found on any of the coast islands south of Cedar Keys.\\nIn front of the mounds deep water will be found within\\na few yards of the shore. This island has been the home\\nof a couple for several years, but as the female part of\\nthe population deemed it proper to elope with a fisher-\\nman, the masculine i^ortion became guilty of arson, and\\nretired from the beautiful island of Useppa, leaving\\nbehind him some bricks, charcoal, and the remains of a\\ncooking-stove.\\nThis island is distant two miles from the Gulf, from\\nwhich it is separated and protected by Lacosta Island\\ndistance to the main land, fifteen miles. Owing to its\\nclimatic advantages, elevation of the land, and protected\\nsituation, it is the most eligible site for a sanitarium in\\nthe South. Frost is unknown, and before the chilly\\nnorth-west wind can reach the island, it becomes tem-\\nperate by crossing the warm waters of the harbor for a\\ndistance of twenty miles. In this section the much-to-\\nbe-dreaded north-easters of the coast do not bring rain,\\nand have none of that searching, chilly nature that\\ncharacterizes them on the Atlantic side. Useppa is\\ntruly the winter home for the invalid suffering from\\npulmonary disease excelling in climatic advantages Ber-\\nmuda, Xice, or Madeira. Y\\\\^e 2:)redict that the day is not\\nfar distant when a large hotel will grace the shell mound\\non this island, and invalids in hundreds will inhale a\\n.ife-restoring atmosphere unequalled by that of any pai-t", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "278 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nof the world. The winter season in this section is re-\\nmarkable for the small amount of rain and the equable\\ntemperature. At Punta Kassa, twenty miles north of\\nUseppa, at a much less favored portion, the highest range\\nof the thermometer for the years of 72, 73, and 74,\\nwas 95 degrees, and the lowest 40 degrees. The observ-\\ners stationed at Punta Rassa favored me with the range\\nof the thermometer for the year 1874, and I shall merely\\ngive the highest and lowest ranges for the various\\nmonths\\nHighest. Lowest.\\nJanuary 79 42\\nFebruary 84 50\\nMarch 85 55\\nApril 87 55\\nMay 90 59\\nJune 91 70\\nJuly 91 70\\nAugust 91 70\\nSeptember 91 67\\nOctober 85 64\\nNovember 82 50\\nDecember 80 49\\nWe spent several weeks at Charlotte Harbor and the\\nCaloosahatchie river, and did not see a drop of rain dur-\\ning that period and found the climate invigorating and\\ndelightful. This section of the State is not affected by\\nthose sudden transitions of temperature which are so\\nunpleasant farther north, or on the Atlantic coast. For\\nthe sportsman, Useppa offers many attractions, as the\\nneighboring oyster reefs and low islands are frequented\\nby countless numbers of snipe the adjoining islands are\\nwell stocked with deer, and the waters of the bay teem", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "AMONG THE KEYS. 279\\nwith fish of a superior quality. On our return we called\\nat this island to secure a supply of water. I engaged\\nin capturing a mess of fish, and in a short time, with\\nfiddlers for bait, landed the following cavalli, sheeps-\\nhead, red and black grouper, porgy, sea- bass, angel-fish,\\nand catfish.\\nSoon after our arrival at Useppa, a fishing schooner,\\nnamed the Breaker, came to an anchor, and we\\nboarded her, as we fancied we might patch up some\\ninformation. The captain was named William Smart,\\nand resided at Key West. He had been navigating the\\nsouth-west coast for twenty-seven years, and appeared\\nthoroughly posted with regard to every island, key,\\nchannel, pass, bay, creek, river, and shoal on the coast.\\nDuring the survey of Charlotte Harbor he had been\\nengaged in the capacity of pilot, and during the last\\nIndian war he was employed in the Quartermaster s\\nDepartment. He informed me that he owned a fast-\\nfcailing sloop of five tons measurement, in every way\\nadapted to the navigation of the south-west coast. He\\nstated that he would fit her up, so as to comfortably\\naccommodate a party of six sportsmen supply stove and\\ncooking utensils, and two Mystic-built skiffs. He and his\\nson (an intelligent youth of sixteen) would sail the craft,\\ncook, and render themselves generally useful. For all\\nthis fit-out and services, the captain would charge four\\ndollars per day. One great recommendation, in my\\nestimation, is the fact that Captain Smart is a teetotaller.\\nA party of four or six could charter this craft, take\\nsteamer at Xew York, and on arrival at Key West take\\npossession. The tourist could visit the keys, islands.\\nDays, capes, rivers, creeks, harbors, passes, and mainland\\nin fact all the more important hunting and fishiug", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "280 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\npoints between Key West and Cedar Keys\u00e2\u0080\u0094 when the\\nparty could take the cars for liome. Having had a\\nlimited experience of climate and hunting and fishing on\\nthe south-west coast, I wish to continue it, and would\\nonly be too happy to join from three to five congenial\\nspirits, in the fall of 1875, to charter the sloop referred\\nto, and do up hi a thorough manner sections that I have\\nmerely prospected, and others that I have not visited.\\nLeaving the fishing ranch on the north end of La-\\ncosta Island, and steering a course north-east by east\\neight miles, a deep bay, without islands, shoals, or mud-\\nbanks, will open up. From this point a course north *by\\nwest twelve miles will reveal the broad entrance to Peas\\ncreek, which stream can be ascended for eighty miles.\\nReliable parties, who have visited and who reside upon\\nthis stream, have assured me that its banks present a\\nfine field for deer and turkey hunting. Crossing the\\nhead of the bay, six miles in a westerly direction from\\nPeas creek, the Myokka river will open up. From state-\\nments received, I have reason to believe that the Myokka\\nis the home of the alligator, the place where the big\\nfellows live, exist, and have their being. The limited\\ntime at our disposal would not admit of our visiting\\nthese attractive streams, but we hope at some future\\ntime to examine them and perforate a few of those\\ngigantic saurians.\\nLeaving Useppa, a course south-east by east must be\\nsteered until the south-west portion of Pine Island is\\nabeam and distant one mile, then east by north until\\npLinta Ilassa bears north by east three-quarters of a mile.\\nFrom this point a northerly course will bring the dock\\nat the telegraph station. Leaving Useppa four miles\\nastern, we sighted a small coon oyster island. It", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "METEOROLOGY. 281\\npresented a singular appearance, and an examination\\nwith a glass revealed the fact that it was literally covered\\nwith snipe. Four shots furnished us with more than\\nenough for an extensive snipe steAV, and an examination\\nof them revealed the fact that we had bagged six distinct\\nspecies. The tide was low and the island was surrounded\\nby an extensive mud flat mixed with broken shells. The\\nshallow water was literally alive with sheepshead, weak-\\nfiah, red-fish, pompano, cavalli, grouper, etc. In the\\ndeeper water there roamed dozens of voracious sharks,\\nwho in pursuit of their prey would venture into the\\nshallow waters until a portion of their bodies was\\nexposed. Frank amused himself for over an hour in\\nthe water and mud, hunting sharks with a shot gun.\\nThey appeared to be unacquainted with man,and exhib-\\nited no fear. They were so intent upon securing a meal\\nthat they could be approached within a few feet. De-\\nsirous of reaching our goal, we reluctantly left this\\npiscatorial paradise, and made sail for Punta Rassa,\\nwhere we arrived on the evening of the 24th of December,\\nand telegraphed to loved ones Compliments of the\\nseason. All well. Depart for interior to-morrow.\\n4. Meteorology.\\nPerso:s S undertaking a boat cruise on the south-west\\ncoast should provide themselves with the published\\ncharts of Charlotte Harbor. These show the sound-\\nings of Boca Grande and Caloosa entrances and San\\nCarlos Bay to the mouth of the Caloosahatchie river.\\nOutside of these localities the tourist will be com-\\npelled to pick his way, unless he is well supplied with", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "282 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nthis world s goods and can engage the services of a pilot.\\nOccasionally an old coaster will be met with, from whom\\nsome valuable information can be obtained regarding the\\nnavigation of localities the wanderer may wish to visit\\nand such opportunities sliould be taken advantage of.\\nWe may remark at this time that we found our outfit\\ndeficient in several important implements. This being\\nour first boat cruise in this section, and having a large\\namount of plunder to stow and transport, we were some-\\nwhat excusable for leaving behind three important\\nweapons, to wit a harpoon, grains, and turtle peg. The\\ntwo former are well known, and can be obtained in fish-\\ning-tackle stores but as the turtle peg is seldom seen\\nin the North I may at some future time give a descrip-\\ntion of it. In enumerating, on a former occasion, the\\narticles composing our outfit, I neglected to mention a\\nSpanish cast net. I purchased one before leaving the\\nNorth, but found it entirely useless. It was made of\\ncotton twine, eight feet wide, and with but six pounds\\nof lead to sink it. For use m southern waters a net\\nshould be made of the best gilling twine, twelve to four-\\nteen feet in diameter, and weighted with from twelve to\\nfourteen pounds of lead a cast net of any other descrip-\\ntion will prove useless, and had better remain in the\\nNorth to decorate the window of some fishing tackle\\nstore.\\nPunta Rassa has been very appropriately termed the\\njumping off place of all creation. At this point the\\ntourist will find two large wooden buildings and some\\npalmetto huts, and a large and substantial dock. The\\nfirst building is a large structure resembling a warehouse,\\nand is the residence of two operators in charge of the\\nInter- Colonial Ocean Telegraph wires and station at this", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "METEOROLOGY. 283\\npoint and also of two observers representing Old\\nProb. North of the telegraph building is a large\\nwooden structure belonging to Captain Henry, and used,\\nas a post-office and lodging quarters for the employees of\\nCapt. H., and those engaged in shipping cattle. The\\npalmetto huts belong to a gentleman who has an exten-\\nsive fishery at this point. This is the point where cattle\\nare shipped from southern Florida to Key West and\\nCuba. The operators and observers at this point\\ntreated us with great courtesy and attention, and we are\\nprompted to thus publicly express our thanks.\\nFinding nothing to interest us at this very uninter-\\nesting point, we left, on the morning of the 26th, for the\\nCaloosahatchie river, and found the entrance a difficult\\npriece of navigation. By advice we took the boat channel,\\nand were favored with a head wind and ebb tide a nar-\\nrow, crooked channel, bounded and obstructed by mud\\nflats and coon oyster bars. After one hour s beating we\\nmade one thousand feet, and surmounted the difficulties\\nincident to the navigation. We ultimately reached the\\nwidest part of the river, and found it to be a grand\\nstream, nearly equalling in size the St. Johns between\\nJacksonville and Orange Mills. We found the shores\\nhigh, and clothed with pine timber of fair quality as far\\nup as Fort Myers. At 6.30 we moored to the dock at\\nthe last-named place 25 miles distant from Punta Rassa.\\nThis was an important military post during the first and\\nsecond Indian wars. At the termination of the late\\nunpleasantness some malicious persons destroyed by fire\\nall the buildings but one. At the present time the\\nplace contains a population of about 100 persons, nearly\\nall of whom are engaged in cattle raising or herding in\\nsouth-west Florida. We found the residents courteous\\nand hospitable, and ready to oblige us in any way.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "284\\ntiOUTH-WEST FLOKIDA.\\nAs an evidence of the tropical character of the\\nclimate at this point I need but refer to the fact that\\nthe wanderer will find eleven cocoanut trees growing\\non the margin of the river and producing fruit. We\\nsee no reason why tropical fruits and plants should not\\nbe profitably cultivated on the banks of the Caloosahat-\\nchie. If we were young and disposed to make ourselves\\na home in a new country, we would without hesitation\\nlocate on the banks of this stream. The winters are\\npleasant, and the summers not uncomfortably warm.\\nNorthern people entertain the opinion that *^the range\\nof the thermometer in southern Florida must be much\\nhigher than in the North but this is a mistake. To\\nillustrate this position I select at random a few statistics\\nfrom Blodgctt s excellent and reliable work on Climatol-\\nogy and for the purpose of comparison again refer to\\nobservations at Punta Rassa for the year 1874 thereby\\nillustrating the highest and lowest thermometric range\\nLowest Thermometric Range.\\nPlace.\\nDate.\\nJa\\nn.\\nFeb.\\nMarch.\\nApril.\\nMay.\\nJune.\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\nNew York City....\\n1822\\n60\\n1\\n68\\n10\\n76\\n22\\n84\\n24\\n84\\n34\\n98 58\\nPhiladelphia\\n1856\\n40\\n5\\n46\\n2\\n48\\n5\\n80\\n24\\n87\\n40\\n98 48\\nWashington, D. C.\\n1855\\n58\\n17\\n48\\n3\\n65\\n16\\n92\\n23\\n86\\n35\\n15 38\\nSt. Louis, Mo\\n1855\\n65\\n3\\n67\\n5\\n67\\n14\\n92\\n32\\n93\\n38\\n95 50\\nCincinnati, Ohio..\\n1854\\n10\\n5\\n68\\n16\\n80\\n22\\n91\\n28\\n92\\n42\\n94 45\\nFort Snelling, Min\\n1854\\n45\\n36\\n45\\n20\\n58\\n4\\n85\\n9\\n84\\n32\\n93 41\\nKey West, Fla....\\n1831\\n82\\n50\\n82\\n57\\n89\\n66\\n36\\n62\\n88\\n70\\n87 72\\nKey West, Fla....\\n1838\\n79\\n62\\n80\\n54\\n81\\n62\\n82\\n63\\n85\\n64\\n87 73\\nKey West, Fla....\\n1854\\n80\\n68\\n81\\n64\\n84\\n68\\n83\\n60\\n60\\n73\\n90 78\\nPunta Rassa, Fla..\\n1874\\n79\\n42\\n81\\n50\\n85\\n55\\n87\\n55\\n90\\n59\\n91 70", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "METEOROLOGY\\n285\\nHighest Thermometric Range.\\nPlace.\\nDate.\\nJuly.\\nAug.\\nSept.\\nOct.\\nNov.\\nDec.\\no o\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\nNew York City\\n1822\\n100 62\\n94\\n60\\n89\\n50\\n86\\n37\\n71\\n33\\n63 13\\nPhiladelphia\\n1856\\n98 64\\n90\\n53\\n90\\n44\\n78\\n35\\n75\\n31\\n61 9\\nWashington, D. C.\\n1855\\n95 52\\n90\\n47\\n90\\n42\\n72\\n25\\n72\\n24\\n63 13\\nSt. Louis, Mo\\n1855\\n96 60\\n91\\n65\\n90\\n47\\n81\\n28\\n71\\n24\\n65 4\\nCincinnati, Ohio..\\n1854\\n95 64\\n96\\n58\\n99\\n46\\n83\\n35\\n65\\n24\\n58 15\\nFort Snelling, Min\\n1854\\n93 55\\n95\\n50\\n88\\n39\\n74\\n28\\n60\\n11\\n45 8\\nKey West, Fla....\\n1831\\n88 78\\n87\\n75\\n89\\n77\\n81\\n71\\n82\\n69\\n80 60\\nKey West, Fla\\n1838\\n88 73\\n88\\n75\\n88\\n75\\n87\\n71\\n83\\n66\\n82 54\\nKey West, Fla\\n1854\\n89 78\\n89\\n78\\n88\\n77\\n84\\n72\\n83\\n58\\n80 54\\nPunta Rassa, Fla.\\n1874\\n91 70\\n91\\n71\\n91\\n67\\n85\\n64\\n82\\n50\\n80 49\\nLand speculators residing at Bay Biscayne, who have\\naxes to grind, and those who have visited the Indian\\nriver country, go into ecstasies over the superiority of\\nthe climate of the southern Atlantic coast, and spread\\ntheir opinions broadcast over the land. Brinton, in his\\nexcellent work on Florida and the South, remarks:\\nThe highest winter temperature observed anywhere on\\nthe mainland of the United States was at Fort Dallas on\\nthe Miami river, and at New Smyrna, some miles north\\nof it, both on the east coast of Florida. Furthermore,\\ntheir range is less than anywhere else. During four\\nyears that the army officers watched the thermometer at\\nFort Dallas, the highest point reached by the mercury\\nwas ninety-five degrees, the lowest thirty-five degrees\\na range therefore of sixty degrees in four years. The\\nhighest range of the thermometer for the last three years", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "286 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nat Punta Rassa was ninety-five, and the lowest forty, a\\nrange therefore of but fifty-five degrees. From these\\ndata we are inclined to believe that the climate of the\\nsouth-west coast will favorably compare with that of the\\nMiami and Indian river sections.\\nIn southern Florida, calm, warm, and sweltering\\nnights, during the summer months, are unknown, but on\\nthe contrary a refreshing breeze exists, and blankets be-\\ncome almost a necessity. During the nights of July\\nand August, when northern people are suffering from a\\ncalm and sultry atmosphere and praying for a refreshing\\nbreeze to enable them to sleep the residents of south-\\nern Florida sleep soundly, and are refreshed by cooling\\nand invigorating zephyrs wafted from old mother ocean.\\nDuring the winter months in southern Florida rains\\nare unfrequent, but in summer, when vegetation is active,\\nmoisture demanded, and frequent rain storms desirable\\nand required to favor vegetable growth and cool the at-\\nmosphere, such rains are of almost daily occurrence.\\nFrom the time we left Sarasota Bay until we reached\\nClear Water Harbor on our return, we did not see a\\ndrop of rain. For the purpose of rendering our state-\\nments more clear and authoritative, we shall quote, from\\nBlodgett s Climatology, some data showing the mean\\nannual precipitation of rain and melted snow at a few\\npoints in the United States", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "METEOKOLOGY.\\n287\\nMean Annual Precipitation of Rain and Melted Snow.\\nSTATIONS.\\nMonth.\\nFort Brooke,\\nFlorida.*\\nFort Meyers,\\nFlorida.!\\nCharleston.\\nPhiladelphia.\\nJanuary.\\n2.20\\n3.90\\n2.33\\n3.00\\nFebruary...\\n3.01\\n2.16\\n3.39\\n2.94\\nMarch\\n3.37\\n4.60\\n3.02\\n3.43\\nApril\\n1.95\\n3.14\\n1.72\\n3.64\\nMay\\n3.24\\n3.33\\n3.66\\n3.90\\nJune\\n7.04\\n14.59\\n5.00\\n3.51\\nJuly\\n11.10\\n8.45\\n6.15\\n4.22\\nAugust\\n10.10\\n8.51\\n7.53\\n4.67\\nSeptember.\\n6.23\\n9.45\\n6.34\\n3.53\\nOctober,\\n2.40\\n1.37\\n3.04\\n3.18\\nNovember.\\n2.00\\n0.96\\n2.23\\n3.36\\nDecember..\\n2.83\\n2.27\\n3.68\\n4.03\\nSpring\\n8.56\\n11.07\\n8.60\\n10.97\\nSummer.\\n28.24\\n31.61\\n18.08\\n12.45\\nAutumn\\n10.63\\n11.90\\n11.61\\n10.07\\nWinter.\\n8.04\\n8.33\\n9.40\\n10.06\\nYear\\n55.47\\n62.91\\n48.29\\n45. -6\\nFort Brooke is at Tampa Bay, Florida.\\nt Fort Meyers is ou the Caloosahatchie River, Florida.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "288 SOUTH-WEST FLOEIDA.\\nTo tnose contemplating a charge of location, more\\nespecially if they intend engaging in the cultivation of\\nthe soil, we would urge the advisability of considering cli-\\nmatic conditions, as tending to health, longevity, bodily\\ncomforts, and pecuniary results. We often hear the\\nobjection urged that the climate of Florida is enervating\\nand debilitating, and that people settling there become\\nlazy as a sequence of climatic conditions. We admit\\nthat an excessively high thermometric range associated\\nwith a close moist atmosphere, will relax and debilitate\\nthe human system, but these conditions do not exist in\\nsouth-west Florida and the emigrant will not become\\nindolent unless he is constitutionally lazy. The resi-\\ndents of the South are often referred to as wanting\\nenergy and perseverance but when such references are\\nmade we must remember that, during the reign of King\\nCotton, to labor was unfashionable, and that slaves were\\nplenty and ever ready to minister to the wants of the\\nwhite, either adult or child. Cynics, who are ever ready\\nto assail the South and Southerners, must remember\\nthat the male portion of our Northern population have\\nbeen educated to some calling in early life that labor\\nand activity have become a second nature with them.\\nEducation has more to do with active habits than climate.\\nWe often hear ungenerous and censorious people refer to\\nthe indolent nature of the Southern people, but if\\nthey bring into review the numbers engaged on the Con-\\nfederate side during the late unpleasantness, and the\\nresults attained by a comparatively small number of half-\\nstarved and half-armed men, they will be forced to con-\\nfess that laziness and indolence did not characterize the\\nConfederate armies from 61 to 65. In the South to-day\\nthe female portion of the population have accepted the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "METEOROLOGT. 289\\nsituation, placed their shoulders to the wheel, and indus-\\ntry and thrift are prominent. Cynical people, who wish\\nto find indolence, laziness, and false pride among the\\nfemale sex, need not extend their observations any further\\nthan the females of American birth in the Northern\\nStates a portion of the world where industry and labor\\nare considered disgraceful by a majority of those who\\nwere intended by a wise and beneficent Creator to\\nbecome helpmates of man. In our many wanderings in\\nthe Southern States we have met with numerous Northern\\npeople wlio, after years of residence in the South were\\nass active, industrious, and enterprising as before they\\nleft a more inhospitable climate. I am prompted to\\nwrite as I, do in consequence of having daily and hourly\\nlistened to the unkind, unjust, and censorious criticisms\\nof Northerners persons who should extend the hand of\\nsympathy and speak words of kindness to a suffering and\\nstruggling people. I am a Northerner, but must confess\\nthat I am disgusted with the want of Christian charity\\nthat characterizes many bigoted people of my section\\nLet us have peace, and to bring about this halcyon\\nstate let us treat the Southern people as we would be\\ntreated extend to them the hand of brotherhood, and\\nuse words of sympathy and kindness, instead of censure\\nand words of reproach and condemnation. To those\\nwho intend visiting the South as tourists or sportsmen I\\nwould say, Be generous, be kind, be honest, and a true\\nSouthern welcome and unbounded hospitality will greet\\nyou everywhere, from the mansion to the palmetto hut.\\nIn our Northern States we have thousands of persons\\nwho are suffering from rheumatic, pulmonary, and\\nchronic diseases, whose health would be improved and\\nlives prolonged, if they could be induced to settle in the", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "200 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\ngenial climate of Florida. Independent of benefiting\\nthemselves, they would advance the interests of the ten-\\nder branches clinging around the parent stem.\\nThe old Romans nsed this pregnant expression\\nJ/iinn cus senilihus liyems Winter, the foe of the\\naged. Modem research proves its correctness. An\\neminent statistician, calculating from nearly 55,000 cases\\nover GO years of age, discovered the startling fact that\\nthe deaths in January were within a fraction twice as\\nmany as in July. Such a statement reminds us of the\\nsignificant expression of another distinguished observer,\\nwho had closely studied the relation of mortality and\\ntemperature, and wrote Waves of heat are waves of\\nlife and waves of cold are waves of death.\\nI am fully prepared to admit that some localities in\\nthe State are veiy unhealthy, and that malarious diseases\\noccur to a great extent in certain portions of the State\\nbut I likewise contend that certain sections of the State\\ncannot be equalled by any portion of the world for\\nhealthfulness and some of the latter localities will be\\nfound on the south-west coast.\\nArmy returns are generally the most reliable, and\\nexceedingly important when we came to estimate the\\nsanitary advantages of any given section. During the\\nFlorida war the soldiers were exposed at all seasons in\\nvarious portions of the State, and only those who have\\nvisited the peninsula can form any idea of how terribly\\narduous must be campaigning through the swamps and\\neverglades of the State. Yet, according to the army\\nmedical statistics, the yearly mortality from diseases in\\nthe army there, was only 26 per 1,000 and the average\\nof tlie army elsewhere was 35 per 1,000 wliile in Texas\\nit rose to 50, and on the lower. Mississippi to 44 per 1,000.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "PUNTA RASSA TO CALOOSAHATCHIE. 291\\n5. PuxTA Rassa to Oaloosahatchie.\\nEn route we were repeatedly assured that we need\\nnot encumber our boat with a large stock of provisions,\\nas a fresh supply could be purchased at old Lanier s\\nstore, at Fort Meyers. Early the next morning after our\\narrival I visited the store for the purpose of adding to\\nour stock of hard tack, but found a total absence of the\\nstaff of life. Fearful that our supply of sugar would\\ngive out, I purchased four pounds, for which I paid one\\ndollar. One of the residents kindly spared me one\\nbushel of potatoes, and I paid therefor one dollar.\\nAt this point I met Dr. McCallam, formerly of South\\nCarolina, but who has settled thirty-five miles farther\\nup the river. This gentleman informed me that he had\\nhalf a barrel of flour at his camp, and if I would accept a\\nportion, it was at my disposal when I reached his palmetto\\nhut. Here was an awkward position a limited supply\\nof bread-stuff to carry us through a long journey, and\\nnone to be obtained nearer than Manatee but we could\\nnot consent to impose on the Doctor, and leave him short\\nof flour, so we concluded to go for the sweet potatoes,\\nand hurry over our route.\\nTo any one attempting a trip to Charlotte Harbor, or\\nup the river, I w^ould say. Carry, or have transported by\\nthe steamer Emilie to Puiita Rassa, a sufficient supply of\\nprovisions for the return trip. They can be stored at\\nthe telegraph station until wanted. Uncle Sam has\\nnot supplied the residents above Punta Rassa with mail\\nfacilities, and advantage is taken of every opportunity\\nto forward letters and papers to persons residing on the\\nriver. Dr. McCallam requested us to take charge of", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "292 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nthe letters and papers addressed to persons at or near\\nhis settlement, and we of course consented.\\nAnxious to reach our objective point, we left the fort\\nat eight a. m. Commencing three miles above the fort,\\nfor a distance of nearly three miles the navigation is\\nrendered difficult by islands and mud banks. At the\\nlower, or west end, of the first island an extensive mud\\nbank will be found, and the channel will be discovered on\\nits north side, near the northern bank of the river. Soon\\nafter entering the channel several stakes will be noticed\\non the port side, and one on the starboard side of the\\nchannel. Opposite the upper end, and to the north of the\\nfirst island, a small circular one will be discovered, which\\nmust be left to starboard. The next two islands must be\\nkept to port, when a projecting point, studded, with tall\\ncabbage palmettoes, will be sighted on the northern bank\\nof the river. Beyond this point another island will be\\nobserved, which must be left on the port side. If atten-\\ntion is paid to these directions, and the shallow water on\\neither hand of the channel looked for, no great difficulty\\nwill be experienced in navigating this troublesome local-\\nity. Above the upper island, navigation is easy to Fort\\nThompson. The river in the neighborhood of the upper\\nislands is famous for its well-developed alligators. We\\ndevoted about an hour to their destruction, and killed\\neight the smallest of which measured over ten feet.\\nAbove the islands the river narrows to a few hundred\\nfeet, and somewhat resembles the St. Johns above the\\nDevil s Elbow. To within about Uvo miles of the tele-\\ngraph station the banks are low, and are covered with\\nmtmgrove bushes, cabbage palmetto, and live-oak trees,\\nwith an undergrowth of ferns, some of the fronds meas-\\nuring eight feet in length. If the tourist is a disciple of", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "PUKTA RASSA TO CALOOSAHATCHIE. 293\\nold Isaac we would advise him to drop a strongly geared\\nspinner overboard after leaving the islands, for if disposed\\nhe can have his time fnlly occupied in landing cavalli\\nranging from two to twenty pounds. During our ascent\\nof this stream we daily and hourly regretted the absence\\nof a Grains (fishing spear), for we felt tempted to capture\\nsome of the large pompano that exist in countless num-\\nbers in this stream. We have seen a dozen of these\\nhuge fellows breaking water at once within fifty\\nyards of the boat, but as they refused a bait their cap-\\nture was impossible.\\nLate in the afternoon we reached the Caloosa-\\nhatchie telegraph station, forty miles from Punta Eassa.\\nA-t this point the line crosses the river, and the wanderer\\ncan communicate with home for the remarkably low\\nprice of two hundred and fifty cents. We received more\\nthan a hearty welcome from the gentlemanly operator in\\ncharge. Disposed to keep our teeth moving, we pur-\\nchased from this gentleman two bushels of excellent\\nsweet potatoes. Here we met a son of old Ireland, and\\nwere favored with a true Hibernian welcome, and an\\ninvitation to visit his residence and see the ould woman\\nand the bairns. He stated that he had two acres of\\nsuperior sugar-cane under cultivation, and that he was\\nabout to make his first attempt at the manufacture of\\nsugar. He assured us that if we would favor him with\\na visit he would present us with stalks of sugar-cane\\nfourteen feet long. Ascertaining that his residence was\\ntwo miles distant, we were forced to decline. The pop-\\nulation of the locality consists of three families, includ-\\ning that of the operator and our Irish friend. Irishmen\\nare to be found everywhere, and are ever ready to ex-\\ntend the hand of welcome to the wanderer. We deeply", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "294 80UTH-WE8T FLORIDA.\\nregretted that we could not visit oiirnew-made acquaint-\\nance and discuss at his ingie-side the merits of the Cove\\nof Cork and the demerits of the Quid Head of Kinsale\\nbut the bareness (not of our exchequer) of our bread\\nbox stimulated us to push ahead. After supper, we\\nfried a supply of sweet potatoes for the next day, and\\nleft our water keg with the operator. At this point the\\nwater was almost fresh, and we deemed it best to make\\nroom in our crowded boat.\\nDr. McCallam s clearing being twenty miles farther\\nup the river, we made an early start the next morning\\nafter our arrival. During the day we amused ourselves\\nbeating and rowing up the tortuous channel. Above\\nthe Caloosahatchie telegraph station the banks of the\\nriver become higher, and are studded with live-oaks and\\nmajestic palms. For miles in many places the banks\\nare nearly perpendicular, and range from ten to eighteen\\nfeet high. On each bank, rich high hammocks extend\\nback from the river for a distance of one-quarter to one-\\nhalf a mile. Back of the hammocks rich pine land will,\\nbe found, and beyond this the open prairie country,\\nwhich will be described at some future time. Above the\\ntelegraph station the intending emigrant will find an\\nadmirable climate, excellent health, superior land, a\\nnoble river, and everything to induce a man to settle.\\nThe day is not far distant when this river will be bounded\\nwith happy homes, orange groves, farm and tropical\\nproductions, and the evidences of education, Christianity\\nand civilization. We have at various times visited\\nalmost every portion of Florida, from the Appalachicola\\nto the Atlantic, and from the Gulf to the northern\\nboundary of the State, and we are forced to give this\\nsection our unqualified recommendation as the most", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "PUliTTA RASSA TO CALOOSAHATCHIE. 295\\ndesirable place for the pioneer. T admit that the region\\nis wild and unfrequented, but the time is near when the\\nriver will be navigated by steamers, and residences,\\nsciiool houses, and ch arches vv ill arise as if by magic.\\nXidit overtook us, and as we were anxious to reach\\nDr. McCallam s residence we furled our sail and resorted\\nto an ashen breeze. We had rowxd but a short distance\\nwhen we heard the welcome bark of a dog, and soon\\nafter, the pleasant sound of human voices. We hailed,\\nand were met at the landing by five human beings. The\\nwelcome we received in this wild spot will long be remem-\\nbered. We found one gentleman from Xew^ York, who\\nhad settled on a section next to that of Dr. McCaliam s,\\nand four from Rahway, New Jersey, two miles above, at\\nCamellia Point. We announced the fact that w^e carried\\nthe mail, and the joyous shouts that arose on that\\nriver wdien the settlers received letters and newspapers\\nfrom home, beggars all description. Aware of the fact that\\nDr. McCallam and his companion in this wilderness had\\nbut a limited supply of the necessaries of life, we posi-\\ntively declined a pressing invitation to stop and partake\\nof the hospitalities of his backwoods home. As soon as\\nw^e announced our intention of proceeding to the Jersey\\nsettlement, the Jerseymen pocketed letters and papers\\nand followed us to the river bank. They took our boat in\\ntow, and while rowing and paddling they yelled and\\nlaughed as joyous men never laughed and yelled before.\\nAfter proceeding two miles we reached their camp, and\\nlanded. We found them comfortably settled in -a pal-\\nmetto hut, and apparently more than pleased with their\\nnew home. We started early the next morning, and\\nwere escorted for several miles by our new friends. It\\nis a gratification to the wanderer to meet with a wel-", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "290 SOUTH-WEST FLOKIDA.\\ncome in the \\\\yilclei ness, and annoying to refuse hos-\\npitality when kindly and courteously tendered.\\nDuring the course of the forenoon we sighted a\\ngator about seven feet long, reclining on a grassy bank\\nenjoying the sunshine. I handed Harry my Winchester,\\nand requested him to shoot. He did so, and the gator\\nquivered and dropped his head. Harry expressed satis-\\nfaction at the result of his maiden shot, and wondered\\nwhat effect had been produced by the ball. I suggested\\nthat we should land and examine the critter. We did\\nso, and Harry seized the brute by the tail and attempted\\nto turn him over. Like a flash the dead gator doubled on\\nhimself, and endeavored to seize him by the hand. As a\\nresult, the pair stepped into the river, and the celerity\\nwith which Harry scrambled up the bank will never be\\nforgotten by those who witnessed it. Before the ugly\\ncustomer could get away, I gave him a pill in his brain,\\nand he turned his paws heavenward. Thus ended the\\nonly gator scrape worthy of record.\\nAs we proceeded, the river gradually narrowed, and\\nabove the former site of Fort Donaud the overhanging\\nlive-oaks gave us some trouble. Still farther up the river,\\nwe met with shallows and annoying sand-bars and drift\\nlogs. Having rowed all day, we found ourselves tired at\\nfive P. M., and came to an anchor.\\n6. Up the Caloosahatchib.\\nThe annual rain-fall of South-west Florida is about\\nsixty-five inches, but during the year 1874 the amount\\nwas but a fraction over thirty-one inches. In conse-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "UP THE CALOOSAHATCHIE, 297\\nquence, the river (Caloosahatchie) was nearly two feet\\nlower than ever before known. Under ordinary con-\\nditions the river can be navigated to the rapids by a\\nstern-wheeler with a light draught of water. Above the\\nCaloosahatchie telegraph station the wanderer can at\\nall times fill his frying-pan with luscious trout (bass).\\nBefore leaving Philadelphia, Shipley Son made for us\\nan eighteen-foot bamboo rod, which we found admirably\\nadapted to fishing in the streams visited. With such a\\nrod, and a few feet of line, the piscator can fish around\\nthe tops, fallen logs, and lily-pads, without any danger\\nof fouling his bob or spinner.\\nAs we were anxious to reach the rapids at Fort\\nThompson, the rising sun found us moving. Harry was\\naft, using the setting pole, and Frank and I manufac-\\ntured an ashen breeze. Then we ascended the tortuous\\nchannel until night. Soon after camping we fancied\\nthat we heard a dog bark, and having seen no chasing,\\nor evidence of settlement after leaving hospitable\\nJerseydom, we were anxious to obtain information\\nregarding our whereabouts. To attract attention, I dis-\\ncharged my gun, and Frank followed with his revolver.\\nWe listened, but no answer was returned. Early next\\nmorning my attention was attracted by the cracking of\\nbrush, and on looking shoreward, I noticed a white man\\npeeping through the bushes. I hailed him, and on\\ninquiry ascertained that his name was Cross, and that\\nhe had recently settled on a point a short distance above.\\nHe stated that he had heard the report of our fire-arms,\\nbut fancied that it was the accursed Indians shooting,\\nand in consequence he had not slept during the night.\\nHe expressed it as his opinion that they would rise,\\nand that another Indian war was in prospect. He\\n13*", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "298 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nfavored ns with his views of the pesky critters, and\\nassured us that they were a hizy, dirty, treacherous, and\\nthieving lot, and that the whole race should be extermi-\\nnated. Our visitor informed us that the Indian camp\\nat Fort Thompson was distant three miles by land, and\\nnine by the course of the river. We bade our friend\\ngood-by, and applied our muscles to oars and setting\\npole. He preceded us by land, and unwisely informed\\nthe Indians that some white men were coming up the\\nriver, armed Avith sixteen-shooting guns, with the inten-\\ntion of exterminating all the Indians about Lake Okee-\\nchobee. At 9 A. M. we grounded the bow of the boat\\nSpray on the northern bank of the river below the\\nfalls. A few minutes afterward we discovered four\\nIndians approaching, armed with rifles and long butcher\\nknives. From their manner we fancied that there was\\na screw loose in their celestial machinery. As they\\nneared the boat I landed and shook hands with all. To\\nmy surprise they manifested sullenness and an indispo-\\nsition to be friendly or communicative. Soon after, a\\nsquaw, and several young feminine representatives of\\npoor Lo, approached, to whom I presented ear-rings,\\nbeads, and breast-pins, costing II per half-dozen sets.\\nThese presents exerted a happy influence, and the\\nmasculine Los expressed a wish to inspect our fire-arms.\\nWe exhibited our breech-loading arms and ammunition,\\nwhich seemed to surprise them. All seemed to be new\\nto them, and they expressed their surprise by remarking\\nIndian s rifles holywagus (no good).\\nAn examination of Drew s and Colton s maps will\\nshow a large lake existing at Fort Thompson, and another\\nsome miles east, named Hickpockee. These bodies of\\nwater only exist in the imagination of map-makers. As", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "UP THE CALOOSAHATCHIE. 290\\nfar as South-west Florida is concerned, maps are to a\\ngreat extent unreliable, and calculated to mislead tourists.\\nFort Thompson was a large and important station\\nduring the Indian wars, but at present only a few de-\\ncayed stubs exist to indicate where a stockade once pro-\\ntected scores of valiant men. Surrounding the falls, a\\nrich prairie of 500 acres exists, covered with a luxurious\\ngrowth of succulent and nutritious grasses the site of\\na lake, according to the unreliable map-makers. We\\ninstituted many inquiries of Indians, settlers, and cattle\\ndrivers regarding Lake Hickpockee, but all scouted the\\nidea of its existence. On the north side of the river,\\nand about 600 feet therefrom, a grove of huge live-oaks\\nexist, under whose protecting branches the Indians en-\\ncamp during the winter months, when on their annual\\nhunt. The region is underlaid with a horizontal stratum\\nof hard limestone rock, from twelve to eighteen inches\\nthick, and beneath this a softer stratum containing an\\nimmense number of shells. The river has worn a pas-\\nsage through the hard superficial layer of rock at this\\npoint, forming the rapids or falls of the Caloosahatchie\\nriver. We found the water to fall about five feet in\\ntwo hundred. The channel at the rapids is about fifteen\\nfeet wide, and within a few inches of the surface we\\ndiscovered numerous sharp-pointed rocks, over which\\nwe found it impossible to drag the Spray to the deep\\nand smooth waters above. We noticed an Indian dug-\\nout, above the rapids, and at once visited Lo s camp to\\nmake arrangements for an exploration of the river above\\nthe falls. By signs and words we communicated our\\nwishes, but were informed that canoe belonged to med-.\\nicine man he gone Big Cypress. Indian no use him\\ncanoe. Here was an awkward position, and Harry an(i", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "300 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nI resolved on an exploration on foot. We started on\\nthe south bank of the river, but after floundering for a\\nmile and a half through mud, water, cane-brakes, and\\nsaw-grass, we were forced to retreat. On my return I\\ntook my Shipley rod and went for a mess of fish. In a\\nfew minutes I landed two cavalli averaging four pounds,\\nand five trout from one to seven pounds. In the after-\\nnoon we were gratified at seeing the face of a white man,\\nand found that our visitor was named Carlton, who\\nresided about two miles to the north of the fort. We\\nexpressed a wish to haul our boat around the rapids on\\nskids and rollers, and Mr. Carlton kindly volunteered\\nhis assistance, and assured us that he would induce two\\nmore recent settlers to aid us. During the latter part\\nof the afternoon we took a survey of the difficulties to\\nbe encountered, and provided skids, etc., to transport\\nour boat around the rapids.\\nIn the evening, one of the Indians, named Jimmy,\\nvisited us, and we eventually arranged with him to take\\nthe medicine man s canoe and paddle us up the river.\\nEarly on the morning of January 1st, in company with\\nHarry and Indian Jimmy, I commenced an examination\\nof the river above the falls. We had not proceeded over\\na quarter of a mile before we found a channel averaging\\nsixty feet wide and six in depth. To say that it swarmed\\nwith numerous species of fish would not do justice to\\ntiiis stream. On the shores large alligators occupied the\\nbanks, and ducks, coots, yellow-legged snipe, curlews,\\ncranes, herons, water turkeys, and other birds existed in\\ncountless numbers. My imagination painted a channel\\nleading into the Lake Okeechobee, and that I should be\\nfavored Avith a view of this body of water. But disap-\\npointment was ahead. We had barely proceeded three", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "UP THE CAL003AHATCHIE. 301\\nmiles when we found the channel to end in a brotid\\nexpanse of saw-grass. A careful examination revealed\\nabout two inches of water and three of tenacious black\\nmud overlying the horizontal layer of limestone rock.\\nPocketing our disappointment, we turned the bow of the\\ncanoe campward. From our own observations, and from\\nsuch information as I could collect from cattle-raisers,\\nherdsmen, and Indians, I am convinced that my pre-\\nconceived opinions are correct that the Caloosahatchie\\nriver is the main outlet of Lake Okeechobee. I am sat-\\nisfied that the lake is not more than eight miles in an\\neasterly direction from Fort Thompson, and that it\\ncan be reached by a light flat-bottomed boat at an ordi-\\nnary stage of water. The Indians would not explain\\nhow the medicine man had transported his canoe from\\nthe lake to the fort but as no other route exists, he\\nmust have brought it by the course of the river before\\nthe water became as low as we found it.\\nOn our return, we found Mr. Carlton and his two\\nfriends ready to assist us in hauling our boat around the\\nrapids but as we had explored the river, we politely\\ndeclined accepting their kind assistance. Upon inquir}^,\\nI found that Mr. Carlton had a wagon and a team of\\nbullocks, and my first idea was to transport the Spray\\nto Fisli Eating creek, a distance of fourteen miles,\\ndescend the creek, circumnavigate the lake, ascend the\\nKissimmee, and return via the St. Johns river to Jack-\\nsonville. Upon questioning Mr. C, I found that his\\nwagon was not broad enough for the Spray, and that\\nit would be necessary to construct a new pair of axletrees\\nfor the purpose. The delay attending this arrangement,\\nand our short stock of provisions, induced us to abandon\\nit. Mr. Carlton had a pow-wow with the Indians, and", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "302 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nascertained that they had three canoes at Old Fort\\nCentre, on Fisli Eating creek. Mr. C. finally induced\\nBilly Osceola to accompany us, and we arranged to start\\nthe next morning for the lake. Mr. 0. returned home\\nto prepare for the journey, and we amused ourselves by\\nvisiting the Indian camp. One peculiarity of the femi-\\nnine Lo is a love for beads, and instead of decorating her-\\nself Avith panniers, laces, furbelows, and false hair, she\\ngoes in for glass. After some persuasion, and amid\\npeals of laughter, we induced a squaw of sweet sixteen\\nto divest herself of her neck ornaments. When the\\noperation was completed we had suspended on our arm\\nfort3^-six strings of large glass beads, weighing, at the\\nlowest estimate, ten pounds. The only article of dress\\nworn by the juvenile representatives of Eve was a few\\nstrings of beads. The dress of masculine Lo was, to\\nuse a novelistic expression, picturesque and romantic in\\nthe extreme. Their head-dress consists of from four to\\nfive small woollen shawls, costing two dollars and a half\\napiece. To arrange this capital encumbrance, Lo folds\\na shawl four inches wide, places the initial end on the\\nforehead, winds the folded shawl tightly around the head,\\nand tucks the outer end under the first coil. This pro-\\ncedure is followed with each shawl until the horizontal\\nand ridiculous-looking structure is completed. They all\\nwear calico shirts, with gray vests and these garments,\\nwith breech cloths, completed the dress of our new\\nacquaintances.\\nEarly next morning found us under way for Lake\\nOkeechobee, in company with Mr. Carlton and Billy\\nOsceola. We followed an old wagon trail leading to Old\\nFort Centre, on Fisk Eating creek. This trail had been\\nmade during the Indian wars, since which time it has", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "UP THE CALOOSAHATCHIE. 303\\nbeen followed by settlers, cattle- raisers, and cattle^ Mid-\\nday found us near the dry bed of a summer water-course,\\nwliere we camped for dinner. I took a spade and dug a\\nshallow hole, from which we obtained water for coffee.\\nAfter eating, I seated myself in the centre of the trail to\\nenjoy my old pipe. Frank laid himself down a few feet\\nfrom me, and almost instantly jumped up, with an exclam-\\nation. His fright w^as easily accounted for, for we heard\\nthe warning rattle of the death-dealing snake, within\\nreach of whose fangs he had reclined. He seized his\\nrifle and fired, but excitement spoiled his aim he then\\nused his revolver, and with the last chamber wounded\\nhis snakeship. In the interim one of the party pro-\\nvided himself with a stick, and soon finished the rat-\\ntler. Frank claimed the rattles, which, upon removal,\\nnumbered eight and a button.\\nAfter our encounter with the snake we hitched up\\nthe oxen and started for the lake. Night found us four\\nmiles from the large mound at Old Fort Centre. Here\\nwe camped, and were favored with the bellowing of an\\nancient alligator in an adjoining swamp. Early next\\nmorning found us follow^ing the trail, and at 8 a. m. we\\nreached Old Fort Centre. Leaving Mr. Carlton to take\\ncare of the bullocks, w^e soon found an Indian canoe and\\nstarted for the lake, distant, according to the statement\\nof our guide, four miles. We forced our way through\\nseveral extensive beds of tlie floating lettuce, and after\\npoling and paddling for two miles, reached a continuous\\nbed of this plant. We w^ere provided with two paddles\\nand a pushing pole sixteen feet long. The banks of tlie\\ncreek were perpendicular, and the water from twelve to\\nfourteen feet deep. In this stream the lettuce was\\nlarger and more luxuriant than any we had ever seen in", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "304 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nthe state. The roots were very long and perfectly\\nmatted, and we endeavored to force a passage through\\nthe obstruction, but might as well have tried to paddle\\nor pole our canoe through one of the New York docks.\\nFor many years I had looked forward with pleasure to the\\nday when I should visit Okeechobee, and nothing but\\ndisappointment loomed up before me. To force a pas-\\nsage for several miles through the lettuce we found to\\nbe impossible, and after considering the matter I re-\\nsolved to reach the lake by wading and wallowing\\nthrough the water, mud, and saw-grass of the swamps\\nbetween me and the lake, and accordingly hauled the\\ncanoe ashore.\\nHad I been aware of the difficulties to be encoun-\\ntered, I have reason to believe that I could have sur-\\nmounted them, and reached the lake by the course of\\nthe creek. If I should again visit Fish Eating creek I\\nwould provide myself with two hooked sticks about\\ntwelve feet long. If one man was stationed on each\\nside of the canoe, say ten feet from the stern, and the\\ntwo to hook into the lettuce on each side of the stern,\\nand make traction toward the stern, avc are convinced\\nthat such a manoeuvre would make a passage for a canoe\\nand the force applied would propel her ahead. From\\nour knowledge of the growth, and the difficulties to be\\nencountered in forcing a passage through such an\\nobstruction, we would advise tourists to test the mode\\nsuggested.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "VISIT TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE. 305\\n7. Visit to Lake Okeechobee.\\nWe left the canoe beached, or, more properly speak-\\ning, mudded, on the north side of Fish Eating creek,\\nand steered a course for what we considered the bank\\nof the lake. The walking we found excellent, although\\nnot equalling that of Broadway. Beginning at the\\nsurface we found one foot of water, and beneath the\\naqueous element fifteen inches of black, tenacious mud.\\nEvery motion of the legs was obstructed by lily-pads\\nspatterdocks, lettuce, trailing vines, and fresh-water\\nplants in endless variety. Above the water, saw-grass,\\nreeds, and rushes seriously interfered with vision as well\\nmotion. Resolved upon reaching the lake, our grand\\nobjective point, we trudged on, and having proceeded\\nabout two miles reached a large floating island that had\\nbeen drifted on the marsh during the hurricane of the\\npreceding October. Frank seated himself on the\\nisland and vowed that he would proceed no farther.\\nWhen youth gave out and cried peccavi, it was time\\nfor old fogydom to push ahead, so I laid a course for\\na small tree, on what appeared to have been a floating\\nisland, and after an unpleasant tramp of two hundred\\nyards I reached the oasis, and found growing upon it a\\nswamp oalc fifteen feet in height. By signs and words I\\ndirected Billy Osceola to ascend the oak he did so, and\\nshouted Okeechobee, Okeechobee. I claim no rela-\\ntionship to the feline race, but the way I scrambled up\\nthat juvenile oak was a caution to the cat family.\\nReaching the upper branches, I was rewarded with a\\nview of the mysterious lake, distant about six hundred\\nfeet. From the time of my first visit to the south coast", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "306 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nof riorida,in 1874, 1 had been looking forward with pleas-\\nure to a period when I shoukl be favored with a view of\\nthe hike and here it was before me. My great desire\\nwas to navigate and thoroughly examine its various out-\\nlets, and if possible discover a practicable boat route to tlie\\nocean but I was disappointed. At some future time, if\\nwe can find the congenial companions, we propose reach-\\ning the lake, via the Ochlawaha and Kissimmee rivers. In\\nan ordinary stage of water we are convinced that a boat\\ncould be navigated through the marsh between the lake\\nand the rapids on the Caloosahatchie. But to the\\nuninitiated the great difficulty would be to determine at\\nwhat particular point to leave the lake.\\nAbout four hundred feet from the shore we noticed a\\nvery large cypress tree, which would prove a guide for\\npersons searching for the mouth of Fish Eating creek.\\nFrom wliat we could ascertain from the lay of the land\\n(or, more properly speaking, swamp), and from the\\nstatements of Billy, the mouth of the creek is south of\\nthe large cypress half a mile. From our point of obser-\\nvation the lake trended to the south, and we are con-\\nvinced that in a direct line the shore of the lake is\\ndistant from Fort Thompson not over eight or nine\\nmiles. Having gratified our curiosity regai ding the\\nlake, and accomplished all we could, under the circum-\\nstances, we started on the home stretch, and ultimately\\nreached the canoe, tired and exhausted. We Avould\\nmost respectfully recommend a five-mile experience of\\nsuch Avalking to Weston when he trains for one of his\\npedestrian feats. As regards ^^Al Fresco, he without\\nthe least hesitation asserts that he has had enough of\\nOkeechobee swamp ex^Derience to last him a life- time.\\nWe have wandered in more than one section of the", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "VISIT TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE. 307\\nworld, and have had some queer experiences, but our\\njaunt from the creek to the lake, and return, excelled\\nanythmg in the past, and convinced us that hunting\\nSeminole Indians must have been anything but an\\namusing and pleasant occupation.\\nEeaching the canoe, Billy paddled, and Frank and I\\namused ourselves ventilating the gators that exposed\\nthemselves on the banks of the creek. Arriving at Old\\nFort Centre, I visited the large Indian mound while Mr.\\nCarlton hitched up our bovine friends. I found the\\nmound to be four hundred feet long, one hundred and\\nfifty wade, and about forty high. At a point where some\\nformer visitor had made a small excavation I scratched\\nwith a stick and found remains of human skeletons. In\\nour opinion, this mound is worthy of being opened, and\\nI trust that some future visitor will be amply provided\\nwith stores, so as to enable him to spend a few days in\\nthe locality and carefully examine it. With the excep-\\ntion of one mound on the east bank of the Caloosahatchie\\nriver, this is the largest we have noticed in the south.\\nSeating ourselves in our springless conveyance, we\\nstarted for New Fort Centre, which we reached about\\ndark. Feeling tired, I resolved upon having a good bed,\\nand by the light of pine-wood fire gathered a large quan-\\ntity of the Spanish moss (TiUanusia), hanging in luxu-\\nriant festoons from every tree. After supper I carefully\\narranged my mossy couch and turned in. Old Somnus\\nsoon took possession of the man, and I have reason to\\nbelieve that I was guilty of some responsible snoring\\nuntil about midnight, when I was aroused by an unpleas-\\nant sensation of burning, smarting, and itching. For a\\nfew minutes I made the situation a practical study, and\\nrealized the fact that I had discovered something new to", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "308 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nme under the sun. I soon ascertained that I was covered\\nwith insects. I went for the moss, threw it out of the\\nwagon, and selected the softest board to finish my night s\\nrest. I had on numerous occasions during my wander-\\nings suffered from the effects of seed and ordinary ticks,\\nbut here was something exceeding all my past experi-\\nences in bug operations. To sleep was impossible, so I\\ndevoted the remainder of the night to scratching. I have\\nread of the patience of historic Job, but I have reason to\\nbelieve that he never suffered from a visitation of Florida\\nred bugs. Upon inquiry, I was informed that my\\nattentive and industrious visitors were called red bugs,\\nand were only to be found on the Spanish moss in the\\nsouthern portion of the State. Our earnest advice to\\nfuture wanderers is to give mossy couches a wide berth.\\nOn our return to the boat we prepared a saturating\\nsolution of common salt, and with it sponged several\\ntimes daily, and at the end of the second day dissolved\\nour connection with Florida red bugs. We are at a loss\\nto determine exactly what effect was produced on the\\nbugs by the salt, but we discovered the fact, that wher-\\never we had removed the skin by scratching, the effect of\\nthe solution was anything but pleasant.\\nStarting before old Sol appeared above the eastern\\nhorizon, we reached our boats at four o clock in the\\nafternoon. South-west of the lake, nearly to the shore\\nof Charlotte harbor, and from the Caloosahatchie river\\nto Peas creek, a distance of sixty miles, the sportsman\\nwill find a beautiful prairie, clothed with luxuriant and\\nnutritious grasses, different from those of the St. Johns\\nand Atlantic sections. This vast expanse of hunting\\nground is dotted with islands, that is to say, spots\\nclothed with live-oaks and majestic palms. These", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "VISIT TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE. 309\\nislands vary from a few square rods to fifty acres, and\\nhere and there will be found small belts of pine timber,\\nthe islands and belts furnishing ample shelter for\\ngame. We were charmed with the country, and deeply\\nregretted our inability to camp out and enjoy a few\\nweeks hunting in the neighborhood of Fish Eating\\ncreek. From our own experience, and the statements\\nmade by reliable parties, we have no hesitation in assert-\\ning that this section is unequalled by any portion of the\\nUnited States, for deer hunting or turkey shooting. In\\ncrossing the prairie from New Fort Centre, large herds of\\ndeer were frequently visible on each side of the trail, but\\nthe effects of swamp journeying, and a night s exercise\\nfighting i-ed bugs, prevented us from leaving the wagon\\nand attempting to shoot a deer. Owing to the inequality of\\nthe surface, and the j^rotection afforded by the tall grass\\nand patches of saw palmetto, deer can be apj^roached\\nwithout difficulty. At the period of our visit the\\nIndians were on their annual hunt to Fort Thompson,\\nand a large proportion of the deer had been driven to\\npoints a few miles distant. Since the removal of the\\nSeminoles, deer have roamed and increased on the prairie\\nundisturbed. As an evidence of the superiority of this\\nsection as a hunting ground, we need but cite the fact\\nthat the Indians residing on the eastern side of the lake,\\nand in the Miami region, annually visit Fort Thompson\\nfor their winter s hunt. With the exception of the few\\nannually destroyed in the neighborhood of Fort Thomp-\\nson by poor Lo, deer roam undisturbed, the grasses are\\nnutritious, climatic conditions favorable, and, as a con-\\nsequence, the amount of deer in this section is fabulous.\\nThis locality is truly the hujiter s paradise, and must be\\nvisited to be appreciated. I have no hesitation in stating", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "310 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nthat tlie still hunter can kill from ten to twelve deer\\ndaily. If he desires variety, he will find numberless\\nturkeys on the banks of the creek, or in the adjoin-\\ning islands or, if disposed to indulge in fishing, all that\\nwill be necessary is to use a bob, spinner, or fly, and he\\nwill soon tire of landing the largest and fattest trout in\\nthe State.\\nIf any one should contemplate a visit to this region\\nwe would recommend as a site for his camp a point on\\nthe creek ten or fifteen miles west of New Fort Centre.\\nTo reach this locality the sportsman can take steamer to\\nCharleston, Savannah, or Fernandina, and railroad to\\nCedar Keys or steamer from New York to Key West.\\nPunta Eassa can be reached from Cedar Keys or Key\\nWest by steamer Emilie, sailing weekly. From Punta\\nEassa sportsmen can ascend the river to Fort Thompson,\\nor take a bullock dray from Fort Meyers. Mr. Carlton\\nresides two milt^s north of Fort Thompson, and for 13\\nper day will furnish a conveyance to the creek. But to\\nfind Mr. C. s residence after reaching the fort would be\\nthe rub. If any person should desire his assistance, a\\nfe*w simjile directions might prove valuable. Landing\\non the west side of the river below the rapids, a north-\\nerly course must be kept, leaving the river to the right\\nand the timber to the left. Two miles from the land-\\ning-place Mr. Carlton s residence will be noticed to the\\nleft, near some large pine timber. Mr. C. will be found\\nto be a good guide kind, sociable, attentive, and mod-\\nerate in his charges in fact, a gentleman whom we can\\nunhesitatingly recommend to the favorable notice of\\nsportsmen.\\nWith regard to the Indians, we have only to state\\nthat, after the first few days we found them sociable and", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "VISIT TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE. 311\\npleasant neighbors. The females are modest and retir-\\ning, and, from what we could learn, are remarkable for\\nchastity. Those we met did not appear to have an\\nappetite for intoxicating liquors, and with the exception\\nof Johnny, a half-breed (part Indian and part negro),\\nthey seemed to be strictly honest. The Indians stated\\nthat Jimmy was holywagus (no good), and we arrived\\nat the same conclusion. We missed a pocket knife,\\nwhich we had reason to believe Jimmy approj^riated.\\nDescending the river, we overtook Jimmy at one of his\\ncamps, and found one of our spinners attached to his\\nfishing line. He assured us that he had found it\\nbut his statement was received cu7)i grano sails. To\\npersons visiting Fort Thompson we can recommend Billy\\nOsceola as a good and attentive guide, and, as far as our\\nobservation went, perfectly reliable. Curiosity appears\\nto be a prominent trait of these Indians, and their desire\\nto see and examine everything, at times proved annoy-\\ning. To escape their inquisitiveness we would anchor the\\nboat in mid-channel, and they would seat themselves on\\nthe shore, and stoically wait for hours for us to get back\\nwith the boat.\\nThe Indians of Florida are so advanced in civilization\\nas to shun politics, rings, and peculation, and are disposed\\nto remain honest, and untainted by the intrigues of carpet-\\nbaggers. They are entitled to one representative in the\\nState Legislature and this fact having been discovered\\nby an aspiring carpet-bagger, he visited Spotted Tail and\\nsolicited his influence. Old Spotted Tail listened to his\\neloquent pleading, and rather abruptly ended the in-\\nterview by exclaiming, Indian no want politics go\\nto h", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "313 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\n8. In^dian Mouitds AiTD Can-als.\\nWe left Fort Thompson with reluctance, but our\\nnearly-exhausted bread-box prompted us to reach Man-\\natee at an early day. We commenced the descent of\\nthe river, and resolved upon thinning out the gators.\\nBefore reaching Punta Rassa, we footed up our gator\\naccount, and found that Ave had settled the affairs\\nof ninety-four on the Caloosahatchie, the best day s\\nsport being thirty-six. We have done some little shoot-\\ning in our time but for excitement and amusement\\ngive preference to gator perforating, and can confidently\\nrecommend the Caloosahatchie to those who wish to\\nengage in this description of sport. At this point I may\\nremark, that we thoroughly tested the Winchester and\\nRemington rifles and for penetration, convenience of\\nloading, accuracy of shooting, and general usefulness, we\\nare forced to give the decided preference to the former.\\nPassing a bayou twenty miles below Fort Thompson,\\nHarry noticed a woodcock, and we landed. In this re-\\ntired and beautiful spot we started seven, the only ones\\nwe noticed during our wanderings. We have often\\nthought that these birds have a taste for the beautiful\\nin nature, for they are generally found where nature has\\nbeen most lavish in her offerings. After leaving the\\nCaloosahatchie telegraph station, and before reaching\\nthe islands above Fort Thompson, we towed our spinners\\nastern, but soon tired of landing cavalli ranging from\\nfive to fifteen pounds. Reaching Punta Rassa, we\\nsteered across the Caloosa entrance, entered Matanzas\\nPass, and proceeded southward toward the Erastro and\\nCorkscrew rivers. If time had permitted we would", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "INDIANS MOUi^DS AND CANALS. 313\\nhave ascended these streams and described an unknown,\\nbut, we have reason to believe, an interesting section.\\nEeluctantly we turned the prow of the Spray northward.\\nEn route we visited the northern end of Pine Island,\\nsituated three miles north of Useppi. Here we found a\\nYankee named Ham, who had resided there for twenty-\\nfour years. At the landing we found two luxuriant\\ncocoa-nut trees in fruit, and back of the hut, roasting\\nears, garden vegetables, and several hundred lemon trees\\nloaded down with their golden fruit. At this point will\\nbe found four of the largest mounds on the coast, and\\nthe archseologist will be pointed to something interesting\\nand calculated to puzzle him. The island is three miles\\nwide, and, with the exception of a few hundred feet on\\neach side, is traversed by a canal forty feet wide and\\neight feet in depth. Mr. Ham assured me that a similar\\nexcavation existed on the main land, and could be\\ntraced in a direct line toward Okeechobee for a distance\\nof fourteen miles. On the north side of Caloosahatchie\\nriver, near its source, a similar canal is found, and of\\nabout three miles in length. I was assured by a reliable\\nparty familiar with the locality, that a similar one ex-\\nisted on one of the Thousand Islands. The question\\narises. Who excavated these canals, or for what purpose\\nwere they dug It is a well-known fact that the In-\\ndians were too indolent to engage in such an under-\\ntaking. There cannot be a question regarding these\\nexcavations having been made by man, but why made,\\nor by whom, is the question. An examination of the\\nlive-oak trees growing in and on the sides of the exca-\\nvation negatives any argument that they could have been\\nthe work of the early Spaniards or the Seminoles. From\\nour knowledge of the Indian tribes it is not probable\\n14", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "314 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nthat these canals were dug by the Yamassees. We tliink\\nthat a thorough examination should he made of these\\nancient works by the Smithsonian authorities, as such\\nan investigation might lead to interesting developments\\nregarding the earlier races inhabiting the south-west\\nportion of the peninsula. In addition to the canals\\nreferred to, the large Indian mounds on the ^outh-west\\ncoast deserve examination. Such an exploration would\\nfall within the legitimate sphere of tlie institution re-\\nferred to, and the expense incurred would be trifling\\ncompared to probable results. During the trip, birds,\\nfish, and murine and fresh-water algse could be collected^\\nand tlie institution benefited thereby.\\nLeaving Pine Island, with its hospitable inhahitants,\\nwe made for Bird Key, one mile west of Useppi. This\\nsmall island consists of about foi-ty acres, and is covered\\nwith large mangrove trees. At one time it boasted of\\ninliabitants, for where we landed the shore had been\\ncarefully paved with large clam shells. It is the rookery,\\nor roosting place, for the multitudes of birds that frequent\\nCliarlotte Harbor. On the island will be found pelicans,\\ngannet, cormorants, water turkeys, cranes, and herons of\\nall kinds, sizes, and descriptions. A person desirous of\\ncollecting ornithological specimens would find this a de-\\nsirable locality. In the evening we amused ourselves by\\nshooting white herons for their plumes, and the noise\\nmade by the birds after each discharge beggars all de-\\nscription. We left Bird Key and adjoining coast islands,\\nafter devoting a cou2:)le of days to their examination.\\nWending our Avay homeward, we readied the north-\\nern end of Gasparilla Island, and came to a halt for a\\ntime. We had been sceptical regarding the fish stories\\nthat had been told us about the fish in this region, bat after", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "IK-DIAIf MOUN-DS AND CAXALS. 315\\nliaTing practically tested the matter, we are prepared to\\ncredit almost anything we hear stated, or see printed,\\nreofarding fish and fishing on the south-west coast of\\nFlorida. I am somewhat of a veteran and energetic fish-\\nerman, but for the first time in my life became surfeited\\nwith one hour s fishing at the inner point of Little Gas-\\nparilla Inlet. At the young flood, Harry, Frank, and I\\nvisited the inlet and noticed a school of minnows being\\nchased by a red-fish. To escape their pursuers, hundreds\\njumped on the sand, and with hands and feet we assisted\\nmany more to land. We commenced with rods and reels,\\nbut were forced to abandon these fancy implements for\\nwhile we were engaged playing a large red, or other fish,\\nhe would be gobbled by a shark, and tackle would go by\\nthe board. I hooked a large red-fish w^hich was taken by\\na large shark, and to my regret I found that I had se-\\ncured an elephant. I showed fight, the last foot of line\\nleft my reel, and my excellent and serviceable Shipley\\nbamboo rod was soon in extremis. The rod bent like a\\nbit of steel, but the braided line held one joint after\\nanother was strained, and at last the line parted, and I\\nwas left alone in my glory, with a strained and dilapidated\\nShipley rod. Resolved upon having a little piscatorial\\namusement, I visited the boat and obtained three strong\\nlines eighty feet long, attached an eight-ounce sinker\\nand two large hooks to each, and again entered the lists.\\nWe baited with the minnows, and would throw our\\nlines out their full length. Almost instantly the baits\\nwould be taken by red-fisli ranging from five to twenty\\npounds, cavalli, weak-fisli, bone-fish, grunts, or red and\\nblack grouper of large size. We unhooked the fish and\\nreturned them to their native element. At the end of\\nan hour, Harry, Frank, and Al Fresco abandoned the", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "816 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nsport exhausted and demoralized. Some of our readers\\nwill say that this was unnecessary slaughter, and not\\nsport. I am prepared to admit the soft impeachment,\\nbut in extenuation enter the plea that we followed\\nup the amusement in order that our readers could\\nform an opinion regarding the kind of sport obtain-\\nable on the south-west coast. Some will probably say\\nthat this was equal to pot hunting, and that\\nthe piscator Avould only capture fish in an artistic\\nmanner, with rod and reel. To such we will simply\\nsay. Hook and play a ten or fifteen-pound red fish for\\na few minutes, and then secure an addition of from\\neight to twelve lineal feet of shark, and one such catch,\\nand rods, lines, and reels would go up. Inside the\\ninner point, sheepsheadipg is excellent, the fish ran-\\nging from one to five pounds. With a stout nine-foot\\nrod and three hooks baited with fiddlers, from one to\\nthree sheepshead can be captured at almost every cast.\\nThe water is very clear, and the bottom a white shell\\nbank, and the fish are visible in dozens, slowly swimming\\nalong in search of food. Fiddlers of large size can be\\nsecured in quantity for bait on most of the sandy keys.\\nTo obtain them easily nothing more is necessary than to\\ndig them out of the sand, where their holes are visible.\\nIf placed in an ordinary wooden pail they will live for\\nmany days. Red and other fish will readily take cut-fish\\nbait, but seem to prefer minnows.\\nI noticed numerous deer tracks on the island, and\\nsuggested to Frank and Harry that they should kill one.\\nAfter their departure for the central portion of the\\nisland, I seated myself on an empty pail and engaged in\\ncatching sheepshead and throwing them in again, unless\\neo badly hooked as to render them unfit for anything but", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "INDIAN MOUNDS AND CANALS. 317\\na frying pan; I was absorbed in the amusement, when\\nI was startled by a large buck and doe plunging into the\\nbay within a few feet of my person. When Harry and\\nFrank returned they informed me that they had started\\na number, fired at two, but did not kill. All the larger\\nislands are stocked with deer, and on most of them dogs\\nare unnecessary in fact still hunting is the preferable\\nmode. Coons in immense numbers exist on these islands,\\nand their tracks are visible everywhere near the bay\\nbeaches. On the mud flats opposite our camping place\\nthousands of snipe and curlews could be seen at any\\ntime, apparently waiting to be destroyed. In the centre\\nof the island the sportsman will find a large fresh-water\\nlagoon, where excellent water can be obtained. For the\\ninvalid who is piscatorially inclined, and who desires an\\nexcellent climate, we would say. Spend a few weeks or\\nmonths on the northern end of Little Gasparilla. The\\nair is pure, water excellent, frost absent, sea bathing\\nunequalled, fishing beyond description, deer plentiful on\\nthe island and on the main land. To the sportsman this\\nisland- offers many inducements, and I would earnestly\\nadvise any one visiting Charlotte Harbor to spend some\\ndays here. Yesterday I received a communication from\\na gentleman residing in the interior of Pennsylvania, in\\nwhich I find the following\\nI have greatly desired to visit Florida for years\\npast, but have feared the trip on account of fevers and\\nbad water. I have also heard much of the insects of\\nFlorida, and am enough of an angler to have a whole-\\nsome dread of the woods in fly time.\\nI proposed postponing the consideration of these\\nsubjects until the final communication, but as I find so\\nmuch ignorance prevailing on many points, I shall take", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "318 SOXJTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nadvantage of this letter to ventilate these subjects.\\nExcellent water can be obtained at any settlement, or\\nfrom the rivers and creeks above salt water. On a few\\nof the islands fresh ponds and lagoons can be found,\\nwhere a supply can be secured. On Pine, Useppi, and\\nLacosta islands, a superior article can be obtained. On\\nany of the islands a fair to good sample can be found by\\ndigging a well from two to four feet deep. At Punta\\nRassa and Fort Meyers, cistern water can be secured.\\nFrom the streams and springs north of Clear Water Har-\\nbor, water equalling the Croton can be found. If the\\nsportsman carries with him one or two five-gallon water\\nkegs he will not suffer. We could find room for but\\none five-gallon keg, and we managed very well. Aware\\nof the suffering that results from a deficient supply of\\ngood water, I was induced in a previous communication\\nto refer to the subject.\\nI have visited nearly all portions of Florida except\\nIndian river and Bay Biscayne region, both in winter\\nand summer, and can safely assert that I have suffered\\nmore from mosquitoes in one day at the head of Lake\\nSuperior, and at Barnegat, New Jersey, than I have\\nduring all my visits to Florida combined. From what\\nI have heard stated and seen published I have reason to\\nbelieve that insects are troublesome on the Indian river,\\nbut this should not be made to apply to the whole of the\\nState. I spent nearly two months on the south-west\\ncoast, traversed several degrees of latitude and longitude,\\nvisited most of the bays, rivers, creeks, and islands, and\\nI can positively assert that I was really annoyed on but\\none occasion with sand-flies and mosquitoes, and that\\nwas one afternoon and evening when we were encamped\\nin the spring of the Chisiowilski. We made it a rule to", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "IXDIAN MOUjS^DS AKD CANALS. 319\\nanchor a short distance from shore every night but if\\ntlie sportsman encamps on hind he will be somewhat\\nannoyed by mosquitoes in the early part of the evening.\\nThe mosquitoes of the south-west coast are lethargic,\\nand not active and industrious, as are those of Lake\\nSuperior and New Jersey. We carried with us a full\\nsupply of mosquito netting and thin muslin to protect\\nus from sand-flies, but the original packages were\\nbrought back unopened. I will admit that I was put\\nthrough by the red bugs, but my sufferings were the\\nresult of ignorance, and my dearly bought experience\\nwill benefit others. At Cedar Keys, Manatee, and\\nTampa, a few fleas will be found, but never away from\\nsettlements or hog nests. At Fort Thompson I thought-\\nlessly entered one of Captain Henry s old palmetto-leaf\\nshanties, where dozens of hogs slept nightly, and as a\\nresult I was literally covered with fleas. I secured such\\na supply that I was forced to strip* and sink my clothing\\nto the bottom of the river, and drown the active cus-\\ntomers. If tlie sportman steers clear of settlements and\\nhog nests, he will not find a flea in the southern portion\\nof the State. The last night I spent at Cedar Keys I\\nfoun?l that the bed contained a number of fleas, and that\\nto sleep was impossible. I searched my coat, and removed\\nfrom one of my pockets a box of insect powder. I sprin-\\nkled a small quantity in the bed, a little in each shirt sleeve,\\nand some on my neck a few fanning motions of my shirt\\nand the top sheet, and peace reigned supreme. The\\nPersian Insect Powder should be carried by every sports-\\nman who runs any risk of coming in contact with Heas\\nor bed bugs. If the latter prove troublesome, a small\\nquantity sprinkled on the lower sheet will act like magic,\\nand nearly every bug that enters the bed will be found", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "320 SOUTII-AVEST FLORIDA.\\nlifeless in the morning. My experience is that the\\nyarns s])iin about insect life in Florida is, to a great ex-\\ntent, twaddle and stuff. I suffer more from fleas than\\nany person I have ever met, and have received so much\\nbenefit from the use of the Insect Powder that I am\\ninduced to refer to it.\\nWith regard to fevers of an intermittent, remittent,\\nor continued type, I believe they are unknown on the\\nsouth-west coast during the winter months, and that, tak-\\ning the year through, it *is the healthiest section in the\\nUnited States. I sometimes think that a man could not\\ncontract disease on the coast during the winter months.\\nI am a medical man of many years experience, and before\\nleaving home filled my pocket-case with medicines, in\\naddition to sundry bottles and pill boxes. Companions\\nand self were frequently wet, and for nearly two months\\nslept under a thin canvas cover open at the ends, and\\nnot a particle of medicine was required. The only\\narticle of medicine we were short of was pilot bread, and\\nothers may be benefited by our experience. In all my\\nwanderings in the State, I have seen but one diminutive\\nscorpion, and that I captured at Fort Thompson. I\\nresided for twelve years in a portion of the world -vthere\\nscorpions are plentiful, and I never knew any person to\\nbe seriously injured by their venom. With regard to the\\nbugbear of snakes, I have only to remark, that during\\nthe period of my recent visit to the State I saw but four\\na rattlesnake near Fort Thompson, a black snake on\\nthe Caloosahatchie, a garter snake on Gasparilla Island,\\nand a water snake on the Chisiowilski. On one occasion,\\nin passing through the interior from Tampa to Silver\\nSpring, I noticed a large rattlesnake lying by the side of\\na log, and stopped the conveyance to destroy him, but", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "TAMPA. 321\\nfound that some one had performed the duty before my\\narrival. Hence I have met with two rattlesnakes in the\\nState, one alive and one dead. I am prepared to admit\\nthat they exist in the State, and that they are fully\\ndeveloped specimens but where one can be found in\\nFlorida, a dozen can be killed in the mountainous re-\\ngions of Pennsylvania. My statement may differ from\\nothers, but I describe things as I found them. Before\\nleaving the North I provided three large India rubber\\nblankets to make leggings to protect the party from the\\nfangs of rattlesnakes, and it affords m\u00c2\u00a3 pleasure to state\\nthat I have the blankets uncut in my possession.\\n9.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tampa.\\nA FAIR wind favoring us, we left Little Gasparilla\\nPass at 7.30 a. m., and reached Little Sarasota Inlet\\nat 3.20 p. M. a run of thirty-eight miles. En route\\nwe noticed two boats, and several objects moving on\\nthe beach. Examining them with our glass we dis-\\ncovered that the men were poling the boat against a head\\nwind, and that the females had landed on the beach, and\\nwere keeping pace with their lords. A peculiarity of\\nthe south-west coast is a calm ocean and little, if any, surf,\\nunless after a storm, enabling persons to land without\\ninconvenience or danger. Having sailed over many\\noceans, and visited more than one coast line, w^e had\\nformed an unfavorable opinion of shore lines and surf\\ngenerally, but we returned to our northern home with\\nchanged opinions, as far as the south-west coast is con-\\ncerned. Our first thirty-eight miles of sea navigation\\n14*", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "322 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nwere undertaken with some reluctance, bnt the return\\nvoyage was simply viewed in the light of a pleasure trip,\\nand was found to be most enjoyable. If I undertake\\nanother cruise on the coast, it is more than probable that\\nI shall take the outside route, and thereby escape the\\nannoyance of oyster bars and mud flats as a matter\\nof course, if the bosom of old mother ocean happen to\\nDe lumpy, with an uncomfortable amount of dust flying,\\nI would take the inside route. The entire coast from\\nCedar Keys to Charlotte Harbor can be safely navigated\\nin a 16-foot Whitehall skiff. As proof that our opinion\\nis not based upon a few miles of sea work or one day s\\nexperience outside of the islands, our voyaging at sea\\namounts to over 175 miles.\\nEntering Sarasota Inlet and finding the w^ind favor-\\nable we kept on our course, and reached the neighbor-\\nhood of Anna Maria Keys, at the head of Sarasota Bay,\\nat 10 p. M., where we anchored for the nis^ht. Starting;\\nearly next morning, we reached Manatee at 9 a. m. At\\n10 A. M. the steamer Emilie moored to the dock, and\\nthe courteous captain (Lefferts) kindly offered to give\\nus a tow to Tampa, forty miles distant, which we accepted\\nwith thanks. We reached Tampa early in the afternoon,\\nand received a hearty welcome from many friends.\\nTampa is situated on the Hillsboro river, where it enters\\nTampa Bay, and is a pleasant town of about five hun-\\ndred inhabitants. Society is excellent, and the inhabi-\\ntants kind and hospitable in the extreme. The climate is\\ngood, and an invalid who is partial to quietness might\\nspend a winter there very pleasantly. The town con-\\ntains several boarding-houses, and from information\\ngleaned from several parties I can recommend the house\\nkept by D. Isaac Craft. I visited the house, and found", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "TAMPA. 323\\neverything neat and clean. Mr. Craft s terms are S60\\nper month for two persons in a room. During the winter\\nmonths the climate is pleasant, and the health of the place\\nunexceptionable. At this place I made the acquaint-\\nance of Dr. Wall, and found him genial and courteous\\nin the extreme, and, as a medical man, we formed\\na favorable opinion of his attainments, and we can\\nassure invalids that if they should visit the place, they\\nwill find in the doctor a gentleman and an educated and\\nskilful practitioner of medicine. I am convinced that\\nTampa would be more frequently visited if invalids\\ncould but realize the climatic advantages of the south-\\nwest coast.\\nFor the piscator, Tampa does not present many\\ninducements. A few miles up the river, fair trout fishing\\ncan be obtained, and about the docks and in the channel,\\npassable sheepsheading will be found. By taking a row\\nor sail boat, and proceeding to the oyster bar, nine miles\\ndown the bay, superior sheepshead and drum fishing can\\nbe enjoyed. On the morning of our departure we were\\nnotified that a hunting and fishing party had been made\\nup for our benefit that it was the intention of the party\\nto take a boat and outfit, by a mule team, to a point on\\nthe river forty miles above Tampa, and to fish the river\\nand hunt the south bank on the return trip. To have\\ncarried out the programme, from ten to fourteen days\\nw^ould have been required, and as our time was limited\\nwe found it impossible to accept the invitation so kindly\\nextended. At this point I made the acquaintance of Mr.\\nCharles Moore, originally of Boston, Massachusetts, but\\na resident of Tampa since the war. Mr. M. informed us\\nthat he would furnish sportsmen with a boat, mule team\\nand wagon and liis services, for $5 per day truly a cheap", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "324 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nhunting and fishing ontfit. He stated his intention of\\nbuilding, during the ensuing summer, a boat suitable for\\nthe coast, and that he would be prepared to fit out and\\naccompany sporting parties on reasonable terms. In this\\nconnection we may remark that several parties residing\\nat Manatee can supply boats adapted to the wants of\\ncoasting parties and to ascertain names and prices, tour-\\nists might address Edmund E. Lee, Esq., Manatee.\\nBeing acquainted with this gentleman, we feel assured\\nthat he would aid tourists and others in any way.\\nWe cleaned boat, aired clothing, and purchased a\\nbarrel of new and first-class pilot bread, and left\\nTampa, with its hospitable inhabitants, behind. We\\nreached the oyster bar at 8 p. m., and came to anchor.\\nIn the morning we laid in a stock of oysters, and pro-\\nceeded to the wreck of the H. M. Cool, to the south of\\nGadsden s Point. We tested the fishing about the reef,\\nbut, to our surprise, failed to capture fish enough for our\\ndinner. Onward and northward being our motto, we\\nsteered for Big Bayou, where we found a safe anchorage\\nfor the night.\\nBut to the biscuit business. I have reason to believe\\nthat my readers will conclude that the crew of the Spray\\nhad an attack of biscuits on the brain, but when it\\nbecomes necessary to keep the teeth going and the staff\\nof life cannot be obtained, the biscuit business becomes\\nan important subject. We purchased our barrel of\\nfresh and first-class pilot bread from a firm whose\\nnames we shall not mention for it is possible that the\\nclerk may have made a mistake and delivered the wrong\\nbarrel. We opened the barrel, and the first thing that\\nmet our gaze were hundreds of well-developed cock-\\nroaches. We carefully separated biscuits from roaches.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "TAMPA. 325\\nfclie bread beino: consiofned to our bread box and the\\nroaches to the briny deep. We made an attack upon the\\nnew biscuit, but discovered that eating them was a diffi-\\ncult undertaking for each biscuit contained numerous\\nslate-colored insects tasting like quinine. To eat such\\nbread was impossible, so we were forced to fall back on\\nsweet potatoes and fish until we could reach Clear Water\\nHarbor. To intending tourists or sportsmen w^e would\\nsay lay in an ample supply of pilot bread before leaving\\nNew York or Savannah, and not trust to luck, as did\\nAl Fresco and his companions. It is possible that a\\nsupply of edible biscuit may be obtained on the coast an-\\nother year, but if we ever visit the region again we shall\\nlay in a larger stock of bread than we did on the occa-\\nsion of our last cruise.\\nMullet Key, at the mouth of Tampa Bay, is a noted\\nrange for deer, and the still hunter will find it worth a\\nvisit. We were informed by a gentleman of the colored\\npersuasion, who was in the habit of visiting the island,\\nthat rattlesnakes were plentiful and of a remarkable size\\nthis statement we give as we received it, but would sug-\\ngest to hunters the propriety of w^earing leggings and\\nlooking out for snakes in the grass if they ever visit\\nthis island. Leaving Point Prunelles we steered a course\\nfor John s Pass, and landed on the island on the west\\nside of the entrance, and in a few minutes captured a\\nnumber of fine sheepshead. This locality is noted for\\nits beautiful marine algae, and w^e deeply regretted the\\nwant of proper appliances to collect and preserve speci-\\nmens. On the point of tlie island, at the north side of\\nthe entrance, we found a shallow^ lagoon containing\\nfish, a matter of interest to sportsmen and tourists.\\nAn examination of tlie end of the island showed the ex-", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "326 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nistence of deer tracks in every direction. We hoisted\\nsail and steered a course for the northern end of Tampa\\nBay, where Ave found the bay to diminish in Avidth, and\\nassume tlie appearance of a river. On our left, the shore\\nof the sea island varied from six to ten feet high, and on\\nright, or main land side, mud and grassy flats Avere fre-\\nquently passed, and these Avere literally covered Avith\\nducks, snipe, and curlcAvs. As Ave approached the head\\nof Clear Water Harbor Ave found the passage to become\\nvery narroAv, and ultimately end in a shalloAV mud-flat,\\nwhere the Spray grounded. The tide w^as ebbing, so we\\ndeemed it best to apply a muscular breeze and reach\\ndeep Avater. Harry pulled at the cable, and Frank and\\nI applied ourselves to the stern of the boat, and in this\\nway we worked her for tAvo hundred yards in less than\\none foot of Avater. Soon after reaching Clear Water\\nHarbor Ave sighted Mrs. Teemer s residence, and landed.\\nFrom Mrs. T. Ave purchased a supply of the largest and\\nmost delicious oranges to be obtained on the south-west\\ncoast. It was the Sabbath when Ave reached the dock, at\\nthe flrst store in the harbor, and Ave deemed it advisable\\nto secure a supply of crackers. We visited the store,\\nand the old fellow Avho kept it being religiously inclined,\\nat first positively refused to sell us anything to eat, but\\nAvhen I assured him that Ave Avere in Avant he opened his\\nheart and consented to sell us enough to last until morn-\\ning. I engaged him in conversation regarding oranges,\\nclimate, soil, and the advantages and resources of the\\nlocality, and before I left j)urchased all his soda and\\nsugar crackers. My clothing was anything but attrac-\\ntive, but Avhen the sanctimonious old gentleman saw mo\\nopen my pocket-book, and noticed that it contained the\\neincAvs of Avar, his Christian prejudices melted like ice in", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "TAMPA. 327\\nJuly. Before leaving, he induced Frank to purchase a\\nsmall bunch of bananas, but when we attempted to etit\\nthem we found that they equalled a poor turnip in flavor.\\nThe land at this point is excellent, health unexcelled,\\nand the climate all that can be desired by the settler.\\nThe land along the harbor is high, and the locality is\\nrapidly settling up. At the passes the fishing is inferior,\\nas compared with many points to the north or south.\\nThe residents of the main land occasionally visit the islands\\nand drive for deer, and in consequence these animals are\\nshy and difficult to approach by the still hunter.\\nFinding nothing to interest or detain us at Clear\\nWater Harbor, we headed our boat for the Anelote river,\\nten miles to the northward. Leaving the northern end\\nof the harbor, the tourist must follow the channel for\\ntwo miles toward the Anelote Keys, so as to clear an\\nextensive sand bank bounding the northern side of the\\nchannel. After rounding the bank a north-west course\\nmust be kej^t, leaving the shore two or three miles to the\\nright. At this distance from land the water will be\\nfound to be about four or five feet in depth, and a look-\\nout must be kept for nigger heads, black rocks, in\\nsome cases covered with but a few inches of water. The\\nwater is very clear, and no difficulty will be experienced\\nin detecting them if ordinary care is taken. After mak-\\ning a few miles of northing, a long point Avill be noticed\\ncovered with tall pines, and to the left several small\\nkeys. By keeping close to the point and following the\\nchannel next the main land, the Anelote river will be\\nfound a quarter of a mile north of the point. A short\\ndistance from the mouth of the river, on the north side,\\nthe tourist will notice some stakes, and if ho lands he\\nwill find a well of excellent water but a few yards from", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "328 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nthe beach. We found the river wide and shallow, and\\nthe navigation extremely difficult, in consequence of the\\nexistence of numerous and extensive oyster bars. Pro-\\nceeding up the river one mile, we noticed a house on the\\nleft bank, and came to an anchor. In front of the house,\\nexcellent red sheepshead and weak fishing can be\\nobtained.\\n1 0. SUBTERRAKEAIT STREAMS.\\nThe morning after our arrival at the Anelote, we\\nstarted for Salt Spring, two miles distant. Leaving\\nthe river to the left, we entered Salt Spring run, and\\nsoon found ourselves floating on the basin of the spring.\\nWe found the basin to be one hundred yards wide and\\neighty feet deep at the deepest place. The water of\\nthis spring differs from that of the many we have\\nvisited in the State, being dark in color, like that of\\nthe St. Johns river. The basin swarmed with fish, and\\nlarge tarpum could be seen breaking water in every\\ndirection. It is named Salt Spring, but this is evidently\\nan error, for the water in the basin is merely brackish,\\nwhile in the run where the tide ebbs and flows the waters\\nare salt. We have reason to believe that Salt Spring\\nis the outlet of Lake Butler, distant two or three miles.\\nThis lake has several tributaries, but no visible outlet\\nthe water is dark colored, and it is at a much higher\\nlevel than Salt Spring. The brackish condition of the\\nwater in Salt Spring is evidently the result of tidal in-\\nfluence. Leaving Salt Spring and its outlet we entered\\nthe river and ascended it for three miles, where we dis-", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "SUBTEEKAXEAX STREAMS. 329\\ncovered a stream on onr right hand twenty feet in\\nwidth and ten in depth. This we followed for half a\\nmile, when we came in sight of Salt Lake, an interest-\\ning and picturesque sheet of water one mile long and\\nhalf a mile wide. At the entrance of the lake, snipe,\\nduck, coot, and curlews were yisible in countless numbers,\\nand large red-fish, sheepshead, and trout fled before the\\nboat in hundreds. This sheet of water is worth visit-\\ning, especially if the day is warm and the sportsman fond\\nof gator shooting. Lake Butler, a noted place for\\naquatic birds, is half a mile from the southern shore of\\nSalt Lake. Deer hunting in this neighborhood is fair,\\nand the region would be found worthy of a visit.\\nFinding nothing of special importance to detain us,\\nwe descended the river and started for the Wiccawat-\\nchee river, thirty-five miles to the northward. En route\\nwe sighted the mouth of the Pithlachestacootie river,\\nbut from information obtained we deem it unworthy of\\na visit. In steering a course for Bayport, at the mouth\\nof the Wiccawatchee, we kept the main land from two\\nto three miles to starboard, finding from four to five\\nfeet of water. In running along this section of the\\ncoast, it is essential that the tourist should keep a good\\nlookout for nigger heads. Baj^port is easily recog-\\nnized by a large storehouse and a pile of cedar logs.\\nWe reached the dock at three p., m., and went in search\\nof soda crackers, and at the store laid in an addition to\\nour stock. The storekeeper assured us that his\\noranges were the best on the coast. Upon his recom-\\nmendation we purchased a supply, and regret to say we\\nfound them very inferior. The present population\\nnumbers about twenty. Before the war large quantities\\nof cedar timber were shipped from this point, but of late", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "330 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nyears the trade havS almost ceased. Standing on the\\ndock we noticed a hirge otter on the opposite side of the\\nriver, and tried the efiect of a Winchester cartridge. It\\nproved to be a line shot, but the elevation was too great,\\nand the ball passed about one inch above his head. As-\\ncertaining that the spring of the AViccawatchee resem-\\nbled those of streams farther north, we deemed it best\\nto forego the i)leasure of ascending the river.\\nFrom snch data as we were enabled to collect, we\\nhave reason to believe that the country back of Bayport\\nis ivell stocked with bear and deer, and feel assured that\\nthe sportsman may secure some excellent sport. The sec-\\ntion referred, to can be reached by land, by taking stage\\nfrom Gainesville, or by leaving Ocklawaha steamers at\\nSilver Springs conveyance to Ocala and stage from Ocala\\nto Brooksville. At the latter place a vehicle of some\\ndescription could be obtained, by which Bayport, distant\\nthirty miles, could be reached. The tourist will find\\nthe neigliborhood of Burkville an interesting locality.\\nThe immediate neighborhood is hilly, some of the\\nhighest points attaining an altitude of over four hun-\\ndred feet. The land is of a superior quality, water first\\nclass, and the climate during the summer months unex-\\nceptionable. In the neighborhood the sportsman will\\nfind some crystal lakes, surrounded by hills, where he\\ncan catch quantum suff. of trout and Ijream.\\nLeaving Bayport astern, we headed for the Chisio-\\nwilski, distant ten miles, which we reached in the after-\\nnoon. Fortune favored us, and we found the mouth of\\nthe river without difficulty. Passing up the river for a\\ndistance of five miles, we found two branches, and as a\\nmatter of course selected the deepest and plainest, which\\nsoon headed in a mud hole, to the disappointment of all.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "SUBTERRAXEAX STREAMS. 831\\nReturning, we tried the right-hand branch, and for half\\na mile poled the Spray through reeds and lily-pads,\\nwhen we found the river to widen and deepen. AVe\\nsoon reached the head of the stream, and found an\\nenchanting spot, one worthy of the pencil of an artist.\\nThe basin of the spring of the Chisiowilski is about one\\nhundred feet in diameter, and tlie depth of the water in\\nthe spring thirty-eight feet. The water is as pelhicid as\\nair, and the most minute object can be plainly seen on\\nthe clear wdiite bottom. From appearances, the water\\nissued from an opening seven feet wide and four high.\\nLooking over the side of the boat, we noticed hundreds\\nof sheepshead, cavalli, bream, trout, and red and black\\ngroupers swimming in the basin. Being disposed to\\nindulge in a fish supper, we went for the scaly customers,\\nbut before our bait reached the bottom the fish left the\\nbasin and disappeared in the subterranean channel.\\nDisliking to be defeated, I lashed three hooks to a single\\ngut, with the intention of hooking the fish in an unsports-\\nmanlike manner. Upon their return to the basin we\\nquietly dropped our snatch hook, but before it reached\\nthe bottom the fish took their departure. We devoted\\ntwo hours to our piscatorial efforts, and succeeded in\\ncapturing seven small fish. Here we were favored with\\na drizzling rain-storm, lasting several hours, the first we\\nnoticed from the day we left Cedar Keys. Leaving the\\nspring, we followed an old trail for a few hundred yards,\\nwhen we reached open piney woods. Here we met a\\ngentleman from Texas, who had left Texan northers\\nbehind and located at this j^oint. He was engaged in\\nthe production of tropical fruits, and he appeared to be\\nfavorably impresed with the climate. He assured us\\nthat he could not be induced to return to his former", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "333 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nhome in Texas. We reluctantly bade farewell to this\\nromantic and beautiful spot, and directed our course\\ntoward Homosassa.\\nA feature peculiar to the section of country between\\nthe Anelote and Withlacoochie rivers is the existence\\nof a number of rivers that are formed by subterranean\\nstreams that issue from the earth at the base of an\\nelevated region of land which follows the coast line at a\\ndistance of ten miles from the Gulf. To find the mouth\\nof one of these streams is a matter of some difficulty to\\nthe uninitiated. For several miles from the shore the\\nwater is very shoal, and oyster bars and sand flats of\\ngreat extent exist in troublesome numbers. Along the\\nshore line the land is low, and is cut up by numerous\\nbayous, bays, and blind rivers and creeks, and in conse-\\nquence it is difficult to discover the entrance to some \u00c2\u00a9f\\nthe streams. If voyaging without a pilot, it is advisable\\nto institute inquiries on every possible occasion, and pay\\nparticular attention to the existence of stakes. To enable\\nthem to find and trace the tortuous channels leading in\\nbetween the oyster beds and sand flats, the coasters have\\nplanted stakes, which will serve as guide to the stranger.\\nBy following the course pointed out by the stakes, and\\npaying attention to the set of the tide, as well as the deep\\nwater and the distances sailed, the wanderer will succeed in\\nfinding the mouths of the streams. But it need not sur-\\nprise any wanderer if he should spend hours in vain search\\nto find the entrance to some of the rivers in this section.\\nA coaster informed us that we could readily distin-\\nguish the entrance to the Homosassa river by the pres-\\nence of the wreck of a blockade runner. At two p. m.\\nwe reached a point where we expected to discover the\\nentrance to the river, and looked for the wreck but", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "SUBTERRAIs^EAN STREAMS. 333\\nwe squinted and quizzed in vain. We turned the prow\\nof the Spray toward the shore, but could not determine\\nwhich opening was the mouth of the stream. Here was\\na passage, and there was another openings in the salt\\nmarsh appeared to be innumerable. We entered a\\nnumber, but soon found them to lead into shoal water.\\nNight threw her mantle over the scene, and we anchored.\\nAbout nine p. m. we heard the sound of voices, but\\nsoon after a boat containing four gentlemen hauled\\nalongside. Upon inquiry we found that they hailed\\nfrom Crystal river, and were en route to Jones on the\\nHomosassa. The pilot stated that he was unable to\\ndetermine his position, but that the entrance to the\\nmouth of the river was bounded to the north by a shell\\nbank. We informed our new acquaintances that the\\nshell bank they were in search of was but a few hundred\\nyards distant, and if they would follow we would pilot\\nthem to the entrance. We landed at the shell bank,\\nand after indulging in a bo}dsh-like freak of setting fire\\nto the decayed foliage of the yucca and palm trees, we\\nanchored and turned in for the night.\\nSportsman in search of Homosassa river will find its\\nmouth ten miles south-east of the Crystal, and the same\\ndistance north-west of the Chisiowilski rivers. In\\napproaching the mouth of the river a mass of rocks will\\nbe noticed a quarter of a mile north-west of the mouth,\\nand a white shell bank from six to eight feet high on its\\nnorthern side. For several miles in a westerly and\\nsoutherly direction from the mouth of the river the\\nwater will be found to very shoal, and the navigation\\ndifficult in consequence of the existence of large beds of\\nhard limestone rocks, extensive beds Of can oysters, broad\\nsand-flats, and sundry nigger heads. To parties who", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "334 souTn-ivEST Florida.\\nattempt the navigation of this section witliout a pilot,\\nwe would say, Shorten sail, keep a good look-out, and\\ngo easy over the rough places.\\n11. A Sportsman s Paradise.\\nThe morning after our arrival at the mouth of the\\nHomosassa we were moving by daylight, and after\\nbreakfast followed in the wake of our new friends, as\\ntheir boatmen professed to be acquainted with the chan-\\nnel. AVe had not proceeded over one mile before we\\nfound the Spray to be hard and fast on a cove-oyster bar.\\nAs the boat belonging to our new friends was light draught,\\nthey left us alone in our glory. Finally we found the\\nchannel, and proceeded but a short distance when we\\ndiscovered what appeared to be two rivers, and we nat-\\nurally followed the widest. By the use of the lead we\\nfound the channel to shoal rapidly, so we returned and\\ntook the right-hand stream, and after sailing a distance\\nof four miles Ave sighted a residence on a high shell bank\\nand an attractive boat-house at the water s edge. As we\\nreached the landing, the rain descended in torrents, and\\nwe pushed the stern of the Spray under the boat-house.\\nWe had barely secured the boat before a youth presented\\nhimself and invited us to accept the hospitalities of the\\nliouse. We inquired for Mr. Jones, and were informed\\nthat he was absent, so we politely declined the invitation\\nso liospitably extended. As it was blowing a gale we\\ndeemed it prudent not to light a fire in our stove, but\\nindulged in a homoeopathic meal, consisting of throe red", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "335\\nherrings, a cup of lemonade, and a few soda crackers per\\nman. Our frugal repast was barely finished when we\\nreceived a pressing invitation to dinner, and as our cloth-\\ning was not very ornamental, we offered as an excuse\\nthat we had dined sumptuously. Soon after we noticed\\na lady running through the rain toward the boat-house,\\nand her pleasant and smiling face convinced us that she\\nwas kind and hospitable, and, in words, she informed us\\nthat Mr. Jones was absent, but that she was chief of\\nthe establishment under the circumstances. Findins:\\nthat no excuse would be accepted, and that we must\\nmake ourselves at home, we surrendered, and followed\\nher to the dining room. Upon entering we found a\\nlarge dining table groaning under a supply of edibles\\nthat would have gratified both a gourmand and a gourmet.\\nFor nearly two months we had not taken a seat at a\\ntable, and it was simply a caution to cooks to see the\\nmanner in which we deposited boiled and baked sheeps-\\nhead, roasted and stewed wild clucks, beef, vegetables,\\nhome-made bread, fresh milk and butter, an excellent\\ndessert, and an indefinite number of the most delicious\\noranges.\\nAfter dinner we expressed a desire to leave and reach\\nthe head of the river, but Mrs. J. insisted upon our re-\\nmaining until Mr. J. returned, and finding that excuses\\nwere useless, we accepted the invitation so hospitably\\ntendered. Hbmosassa was the residence of the Hon. Mr.\\nYulee before the war, and the house is situated on a shell\\nmound sloping to the river. Along the water s edge a\\npermanent stone wall a quarter of a mile in length has\\nbeen constructed. Near the stone- wall a row of gigantic\\nfig-trees are growing, the spread of the branches of the\\nlargest being fifty-three feet. The river is about ten", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "336 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nmiles in length, and as soon as the weather permitted we\\nexamined it to its source, as well as the adjoining country.\\nTwo miles above Mr. J. s residence we left the boat, and\\nlanded at the lower edge of the old sugar plantation.\\nHere we found an old clearing of several hundred acres,\\nwhich had been devoted to sugar culture in times past. In\\ntraversing the old plantation we noticed deer and turkey\\ntracks in every direction. We readied in the river again\\nat the old sugar house, and took seats in tlie yawl boat.\\nProceeding up the stream we noticed large fish in thou-\\nsands fleeing before the boat. After a pleasant journey\\nwe found ourselves floating in the bosom of Homosassa\\nSpring truly an enchanting spot, a view of which re|)aid\\nus for all our wanderings. Looking over the side of the\\nboat we noticed a number of huge snapping turtles cling-\\ning to the rocky ledges, ahdcavalli, red-fish, bass, sheeps-\\nhead, weak-fish and red and black grouper in thousands\\nleisurely swimming about the basin. In this spring all\\nthe species of fish are ever ready to take a bait, and the\\nfollower of Old Isaac can obtain a surfeit of sport at any\\ntime. Owing to the voracity of the fish and the clear-\\nness of the water the piscator can select the variety of\\nfish he wishes to capture. In consequence of the pres-\\nence of a number of large turtles and such countless\\nnumbers of fish, the water in this basin is not as clear as\\nit is in some others, thirty-five to forty feet being the\\nlimit where fish can be seen. We measured the deepest\\npoint in tlie basin and found the lead to reach bottom\\nat forty-eight feet.\\nAround the basin and along the banks of the river\\nwe found large numbers of water turkeys, cormorants,\\nfish-hawks, and species of the heron and crane fami-\\nlies, which were more easily approached than on any", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "33?\\nstream we have visited. Ducks, not to be enumerated\\nby thousands but by square acres, were visible to the\\nright and left, and before and behind us. The sportsman\\ncan find accommodations at Mr. Jones and can fully\\noccupy his time. Near the house excellent sheejoshead-\\ning exists, and these noble fish, of large size, can be cap-\\ntured until the arms ache. By trolling with a spoon or\\nspinner, red-fish can be caught ranging from five to thirty\\npounds, A 3^ear or two since, a gentleman from the\\nHub engaged in this kind of fishing, and pickerel fisher\\nlike, placed the line between his teeth. He secured a\\nbite, the line fouled, and at the end of the performance\\nhe was minus a tooth but landed a thirty-two pound red-\\nfish. By visiting the spring four miles from the house,\\nthe knight of the rod can land fish of large size as rap-\\nidly as he can bait and secure his fish. If he desires\\nlarger and more clumsy game he can amuse himself cap-\\nturing turtles ranging from eighteen to thirty inches\\nin length. In the Homosassa and Salt rivers, and in the\\nbayous and blind creek near Mr. Jones residence, the\\nshootisfc will find ducks by the square acre, and if he is\\ndisposed to engage in the destruction of larger game\\nsuch as pelicans, gannet, and an endless variety of herons\\nand cranes all that is necessary to be done is to lay in a\\nstock of provisions, take a boat, and sail to one of the\\nSt. Martin s Keys a few miles from the mouth of the\\nHomosassa. On one of these keys the sportsman will\\nfind a rookery, where the sea birds, frequenting an area\\nof probably forty miles, nightly collect to roost.\\nAt the old sugar plantation two miles above the\\nhouse, good quail and snipe shooting is obtainable. Bears\\nexist in the hammocks, and can be captured if the sports-\\nman secures the services of a cracker with his bear dogs,\\n15", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "338 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nTlie neighborhood seems to be a favorite resort for deer,\\nand for tliis description of the sport we can unhesitat-\\ningly recommend Jones as a place of resort. The still\\nhunter, by visiting the old sugar plan tuition on the edge\\nof the pine timber, four miles from the house, will ex-\\nperience but little difficulty in securing a pair of antlers\\nworthy of gracing his Northern home. For miles west\\nand south-west of the house large areas of low-lying land\\nexist, covered with a luxuriant growth of rushes and\\ncoarse grasses, with here and there islands of timber,\\nconsisting of gum, live and swamp oak, cedar and cab-\\nbage palms. The low lands furnish excellent feed, and\\nthe islands shelter for deer. Late in the year the rushes\\nand grasses lose their vitality, and if a windy day is\\nselected, thousands of acres can be burned over by the\\napplication of a single match. In a few weeks the flats\\nwill be covered with a luxuriant and succulent growth\\nof grass, and deer will yisit the locality in numbers.\\nThese flats are comparatively dry, and would furnish the\\nfire-pan hunter an excellent field for sport. If parties\\nAvho propose visiting Homosassa would communicate\\nwith Mr. Jones a few weeks in advance, he would burn\\noff a few square miles of marsh for the benefit of his\\nvisitors. If turkey shooting is desired, the sportsman\\ncan enjoy it by ascending the river to the spring, and\\nproceeding to the edge of the pine timber. Mr. Jones\\nnephew, a mere lad, informed us that he had killed\\nsixteen deer within a short period, and in hail of the\\nliouse, on a small clearing on the opposite side of the\\nriver. As Frank was unacquainted with fire hunting, I\\nsug-gested that we should engage in the sport. After\\nsupper we provided ourselves with some fat pine, and a\\nlong-handled frying-pan. We landed on the opposite", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "A sportsman s paradise. 339\\nbank at tlie clearing, lighted our fire, and had not pro-\\nceeded over eighty yards before we noticed four fine deer\\nwithin thirty yards. Fortunately for the deer, Frank\\nhad an acute attack of the buck fever and aimed at the\\nPleiades. While he was taking aim I heard voices at the\\nhouse hence here was deer shooting within a reasonable\\ndistance from home. Next day I suggested another\\nhunt, and intimated that I would try my luck. After\\nsupper, several visitors, Harry, Frank, Mr. J. s nephew,\\nFifteenth Amendment Dick, and Al Fresco seven in all\\n^lef t for the clearing, truly a sufficient number to prevent\\nthe possibility of securing a deer. We lighted our fire,\\nand had not proceeded over one hundred yards before I\\nnoticed four deer within twenty yards of the light, but\\nowing to the noise made by the seven pairs of feet\\ntramping through the dry grass, they were alarmed, and\\nbefore I could step in front of the light to insure accu-\\nracy of aim they bounded into the hammock. Look-\\ning to the right I noticed a j^air of eyes at a distance of\\nprobably eighty yards. I gave him both barrels, and\\nalthough wounded he escaped. Those who are posted will\\nremark that it was madness to attempt fire hunting\\nwith such a retinue, and I am prepared to admit the\\nnselessness of the proceeding, but I dislike to be selfish\\nand insist on engaging in the sport with but one com-\\npauion. On the first occasion our party numbered five,\\nand on the last seven, and if deer can be so easily ap-\\nproached by such numbers, what would be the result if\\nthe sportsman carried his own head light, or was merely\\nattended by the pan carrier.\\nSalt river is a tidal channel, extending from the\\nHomosassa to the Crystal river, and is about ten miles in\\nlength, with its bottom literally paved with large and", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "340 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nluscious-cooking oysters. The bars o2 the mouth of\\nthe Crystal river are covered with the largest and finest\\nsalt oysters to be found on the American coast. When\\nhe has visitors Mr. Jones visits these beds weekly, and\\nobtains a boat load of these delicious bivalves for the\\nbenefit of his guests, who can have them cooked how or\\nAvhen they like, or can open and deposit them when the\\nspirit moveth. Having referred to the bivalve attrac-\\ntions of the place, I may as Avell notice the host and\\nhostess as well as the house and dietetic attractions.\\nMr. Jones is a Bostonian, and served with honor in\\nthe First Massachusetts cavalry during the war. Visitors\\nwill find him quiet, intelligent, unobtrusive, and ever\\nstudious of the comfort of his guests. Mrs. Jones is a\\nnative of Bloomfield, New York, and will be found to be\\nintelligent, affable, kind, and ever ready to contribute\\nto the comfort and pleasures of those who favor her with\\ntheir patronage. She seems to anticipate every want of\\nher visitors, and as a cook and housekeeper she cannot\\nbe excelled. Everything was scrupulously clean, and\\nthe table in every way unexceptionable. What the vis-\\nitor to Florida seldom meets with, he will find at Homo-\\nsassa the best of home-made bread, fresh milk twice\\ndaily, and fresh butter at least twice weekly. In addition\\nto a lavish supply of the necessaries and luxuries of life,\\nthe visitor is expected to deposit an indefinite number\\nof the most delicious oranges after each meal, between\\ntimes, and before retiring at night. The house is near\\nthe river, one story high, and surrounded by a spacious\\nveranda. The rooms open on the verandas on two sides,\\nthe ceilings being very high, and each having a fire-place\\nin it. The beds are such as visitors seldom find in Flor-\\nida. Owing to the limited number of rooms, Mr. Jones", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "A sportsman s paradise. 341\\ncan accommodate but four couples in the main build-\\ning, but at a distance of one hundred yards from the\\nhouse, is Liberty Hall, where from two to four stags can\\nsleep and enjoy themselves. If justified (and I sin-\\ncerely hope he will be), Mr. Jones will add to his\\npresent building.\\nIn my humble opinion no place in the State presents\\nso many attractions for the sportsman, if we take into\\nconsideration the sporting advantages in connection\\nwith home comforts, excellent accommodations, sup^erior\\ntable, perfect cleanliness, and an admirable climate.\\nSportsmen who wish to enjoy themselves, and at the\\nsame time be accompanied by their better halves, will\\nfind this place to offer many attractions. If a stag\\nparty of from two to four wish to enjoy themselves for a\\nfew weeks or months, we would recommend them to\\nengage Liberty Hall. What surprised me most was the\\nmoderate charge for the accommodations furnished\\nfrom $10 to $12 per week. Visitors will find an ample\\nsupply of boats, and for a trifling charge, negroes living\\non the plantation will keep the piscator supplied with\\nbait. Mr. Jones is the postmaster, and the place is\\nprovided with a weekly mail. We spent a week at Ho-\\nmosassa, and found bat one thing to annoy, that being\\nthe fact that we were compelled to leave.\\nTo those who propose visiting the locality we would\\nsay, provide a strong bass rod, a crab net^ and a full\\nsupply of strong hooks and lines. In this connection we\\nmay remark that we tested at this point as well as many\\nothers, a sheepshead hook manufactured by Shipley\\nSon, of No. 503 Commerce street, Philadelphia, and we\\ncan unhesitatingly recommend it as unequalled for\\nstrength and temper. The only fault of the hook is", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "842 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nin the shortness of the shank, which should be twice the\\npresent length.\\nSome of my readers will ask, Where is Homosassa, and\\nhow can it be reached which I will explain. It is about\\nforty miles from Cedar Keys, and may be reached by\\ntwo routes one via Savannah, Fernandina, or Jackson-\\nville to Cedar Keys, and the other via Silver Spring and\\nOcala. The sportsman can easily ascertain upon what\\nday he will reach Cedar Keys, and by addressing Alfred\\nE. Jones, postmaster, Homasassa, Florida, in advance\\nof the day of arrival, Mr. Jones will be found on the\\nkeys with a boat to transport visitors to his place free of\\ncharge. If unable to communicate with Mr. Jones, a\\nsuitable boat may be chartered at Cedar Keys for about\\n$10 for the trip. If the sportsman is desirous of visiting\\nan interesting and attractive portion of the State, he can\\ntake steamer from Jacksonville to Silver Spring, and\\nback from the spring to Ocala a distance of six miles.\\nFrom Ocala to Homosassa the distance is forty miles, over\\na good road, and E. J. Harris, of the Ocala House, will\\nmake the necessary arrangements, for transportation of\\nvisitors to the hospitable ingle-side of A. E. Jones. We\\nhave at various times wandered over a large portion of\\nthe State, and in all sincerity can assure the readers\\nthat, taking everything into consideration, we found\\nJones on the Homosassa, the most attractive point\\nwe have thus far found in Florida and if alive and kick-\\ning during the course of next winter we propose visiting\\nthere again, and it would afford me great pleasure to\\nmeet some of the sporting readers at the Jiospitablo\\nhome of Alfred E. Jones.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTIOlfS TO TOURISTS. 343\\n12. Suggestions to Tourists.\\nPrivate business requiring Mr. Jones presence at\\nthe settlement at CiTstai river, we took advantage\\nof the opportunity and followed in his wake. We re-\\nluctantl} bade good-by to Mrs. Jones, and the un-\\nbounded hospitality and numerous sporting attractions\\nof Homosassa. This was our first visit to this sports-\\nman s paradise, and we have reason to believe that it will\\nnot be the last. Crystal river is distant about ten miles\\nfrom the Homosassa, and the two are connected by a\\ncross stream, known as Salt river, the latter being\\nparallel with, and distant six miles from the Gulf.\\nTwo years since, two Northern sportsmen were rowing a\\nsmall Whitehall boat at the Homosassa end of the river\\nwhen a tarpum weighing 125 pounds leaped into the\\nboat. The result was ludicrous in the extreme. In his\\nefforts to escape, the motions of the fish imperilled the\\nhull as well as the shins of the occupants. Oars were\\ntried, but the sportsmen soon discovered that they\\nwould run the risk of knocking a hole through the boat s\\nbottom. Jack-knives were tested, but the huge scale of\\nthe fish protected it. As a dernier ressort, the two-\\nlegged occujoants sought refuge at either end of the boat,\\nand waited until the fish became exhausted. For several\\nmiles after entering this stream, we found it to be liter-\\nally covered with wild ducks, but as we could not utilize\\nthem, we refrained from wasting ammunition. This\\nriver is tortuous and shallow, and presents numerous\\ndifficulties in navigation in the way of extensive oyster\\nbars and mud flats. The bivalves are very large, fat, and\\nand almost inexhaustible. Having no experience in the", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "344 SOUTII-AVEST FLORIDA.\\ncanning business, we can form no idea of the effect of\\nclimate in interfering with the canning process but if the\\nclimate did not prove too warm, we fancy that this\\nwould be one of the best locations in the United States\\nfor a canning establishment. Wages are low, and\\noysters of large size can be obtained in unlimited quantity\\nfor a trifling outlay. The prepared oysters could be\\ncheaply shipped to Ncav York, New Orleans, or Havana.\\nWe reached the settlement of Crystal river early in\\nthe afternoon, and received a hearty welcome. The\\nsettlement consists of about one dozen buildings, and\\nhas considerable trade with the interior. We entered\\nthe basin, and found a number of springs which we\\nsounded, the deepest measuring but eighteen feet. In the\\nafternoon, the residents arranged for a fire hunt for our\\nbenefit, but as the night was chilly and as I was suffering\\nfrom an attack of inflammation of my right thumb, follow-\\ning an injury, I deemed it best to remain on the Spray,\\nand allow Frank and Harry to represent the party. In\\nthis connection we may remind the uninitiated that\\nbefore they engaged in fire hunting it might be advisable\\nfor them to examine and note the size as well as distance\\napart of the eyes of horses, cows, and deer, as mistakes\\nare liable to be made. One of the gentlemen who was\\ninstrumental in getting up the fire hunt, has a tender\\nspot and that is an error he committed in his first fii e\\nhunt. He sighted a pair of eyes, took deliberate aim,\\npulled trigger, and next day paid $25, the value of a\\nneighbor s cow. Within a short period a Northern man\\nsettled not a hundred miles from New Smyrna, and\\nresolved upon having some sport. He started with pan\\nand double-barrelled gun, and after wandering several\\nmiles, succeeded in shining the eyes of two deer, and fired", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTIONS TO TOURISTS. 345\\nat both. They fell, and upon exammation of the ani-\\nmals and the surroundings, he realized the fact tliat he\\nhad lost his way, was near his home, and in a sportsman-\\nlike manner had killed a heifer and colt belonging to\\nhimself.\\nFinding nothing very attractive about the settlement,\\nwe departed for the Crystal river oyster bars. These are\\nsituated about four miles from the main land, and should\\nbe visited by every sportsman who is fond of superior\\nbivalves. By landing on the bars at low water, large\\nand delicious oysters can be gathered in any quantity.\\nWe found them to be fat, and of the most excellent flavor.\\nLeaving the oyster bar, we headed for the Withlacoochio\\nriver, distant ten miles. The opening of this river can\\nbe easily detected by the presence of a large saw-mill at\\nthe westerly side of the river s mouth. We encamped\\nfor the night near the mill, and the next morning com-\\nmenced ascending the stream. We ascended for several\\nmiles, but in consequence of the height and density of the\\ntimber, we found our sail useless as we were not inclined\\nto pull against the rapid current, and as the river did\\nnot seem to present any sporting attractions, we re-\\nturned to the mill and encamped for the night.\\nNext morning, at seven o clock a. m., we hoisted sail\\nand headed for Cedar Keys. Not being disposed to fol-\\nlow the trend of the coast and dodge oyster-bars and\\nnigger-heads, we steered a course by compass, and reached\\nthe Keys at one p. m., at which point ended the cruise\\nof the good boat Spray. We have wandered some little\\nin this, as well as in other lands, but our trip, extending\\nover a period of two months, we shall always review as\\nthe most pleasant one we have ever taken. Having\\nfound our tour so enjoyable and satisfactory, we feel dis-\\n15*", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "8-46 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nposed to try it again, visit the best fishing and hunting\\npoints, and examine the portion of coast lying between\\nPunta Rassa and Cape Sable.\\nIn taking a farewell of the readers who may have fol-\\nlowed lis in our cruise, I may remark that, however fishy\\nsome of our statements may appear, they can be relied\\nupon. To day I received a letter from a gentleman resid-\\ning in Savannah, in which I find the following\\nI have travelled considerably in Florida, m^re espe-\\ncially in the eastern and western points of South Florida\\nand I may here add, that wliile reading your interesting\\nletters, I wandered in my memory over many familiar\\nplaces with you, and I honestly congratulate you on the\\naccuracy of your reports.\\nI may also remark that I have become so much\\nattached to Floridians, and am so much pleased with the\\nclimate, that I have permanently settled in Jacksonville\\nand that it Avill, at all times, afford me pleasure to commu-\\nnicate to sportsmen visiting the State, any information\\nm my possession. Our good friend, the editor, is at\\nhberty to give my name to sportsmen who desire it. In\\nthe future we propose visiting localities away from the\\nbeaten track of tourist travel, and shall briefly describe\\ntheir sporting advantages, for the benefit of gunnists\\nand fishermen.\\nHaving acquired some little knowledge of the outfit\\nnecessary for a trip to the south-west coast, we would\\nadvise those Avho intend visiting the region to lay in\\nan ample supply of the best pilot bread in New York or\\nSavannah. A portion of the stock could be forwarded\\nby steamer to Tampa Bay, care of Miller Henderson,\\nand a portion to Punta Rassa, to care of telegraph operator.\\nIn a former communication, I stated that the steamer", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "SUGGE5T10XS TO TOURISTS. 341\\nEmilie, of Roberts line, carried the mail between Cedar\\nKeys and Key West, touching at Tampa, Manatee, and\\nPunta Eassa but since that was written, the government\\nhas made a change, and the service is performed by a\\nsteamer belonging to Captain McKay, of Tampa. Sports-\\nmen will find the captain a jolly, companionable, courteous\\nand obliging Scotsman one who is ever ready to convey\\ninformation or confer a favor.\\nIn a former number we referred to our outfit for the\\nexpedition, and have but a few suggestions to make. We\\nwould recommend sportsmen to provide themselves with\\na harpoon and grains, as these would be found useful in the\\ncai^ture of fin-fish and tarpum and if more noble game\\nwould prove desirable, the aspirant for sporting fame\\nmay fasten to a large shark or devil-fish, and, to say the\\nleast, enjoy a tow. We frequently experienced the want\\nof a light skiff and can assure the sportsmen that one\\nwould be found very convenient. A large frying-pan,\\nwith a long handle, would be found very useful for fire\\nhunting. In a recent issue of the Forest and Stream,\\nwe noticed an advertisement of a lamp and reflector for\\nnight hunting, and from the description, have reason\\nto believe that it might prove useful or at least, we\\nwould like to give one a thorough practical test. Ammu-\\nnition and fishing-tackle of good quality cannot be pur-\\nchased at any point on the coast, and we would advise\\nsportsmen to supply themselves with a suitable outfit.\\nIn this connection Ave cannot refrain from i-eferring to\\nthe fact that our fishing rods and tackle were supplied\\nby Shipley Son, of 503 Commerce street, Philadelphia\\nand gun, rifle, and ammunition by Wilham Wurfflein,\\n208 South Second street, of the same city. The rices\\nwere moderate and quality proved to be in every way", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "348 SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA.\\nsatisfactory and from experience we can honestly rec-\\nommend the^e parties to the notice of sportsmen.\\nA man Friday would be found very useful, and we\\nwould advise sportsmen to secure the services of a com-\\npetent one. Any quantity of pilots and sailing-masters\\ncan be engaged on the south-west coast but nearly\\nall of them have a weakness that of raising the\\nlittle finger too high and too often. If any party of\\nsportsmen should conclude to follow in my wake, I would\\nadvise them to secure the services of Henry Austin, of\\nBeverly, New Jersey, who accompanied me on my trip\\nwho is well posted as regards the difficulties of the navi-\\ngation, and the best points for sporting. He is temper-\\nate, willing, industrious, and obliging a good shot, a fair\\ncook, and perfectly at home in a boat. He is in posses-\\nsion of a valuable amount of information regarding\\nplaces visited, and would be found very useful as a guide\\nand sailing-master. We unhesitatingly recommend him,\\nand feel assured that if he should be engaged by any\\nparty that his services would be found valuable.\\nIn concluding our brief notes of a sportsman s para-\\ndise, we may remark, that we have endeavored to be\\npractical, and confine ourselves to data that would interest\\nsportsmen; and if the end has been attained it will\\ngratify\\nAl Fresco.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "V^ Ko. 1 Ci^RTLANDT STREET,\\nNE^W^ YOKK.\\nIiUpof tef of Gi;un^, d.\\nAgent for the celebrated Far-Killing Prize Guns of W. W. Greener.\\nHas also in stock, or to order, a good assortment of Guns by W.\\nC. Scott Son, and other makers. Also sole New York agent for\\nHolabird s Shooting and Fishing Suits.\\nTOURISTS SUPPLIED WITH COMPLETE OUTFITS\\nAT REASOJ^ ABLE PRICES.\\nL. H. Abbet. C. F. Imbrik. Andrew Clerk, Special.\\nABBEY IMBRIE,\\nSuccessors to Andrew Clerk Co.,\\nNJEW YORK, LOIS^DON .A-ND REIDDITCH,\\nImporters, Manufacturers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in\\nOF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND QUALITY,\\n48 3IAIDEN LANE and 35 LIBERTY STREET,\\nP. O. Box 1294. NEW YORK.\\nWe particiilarly call attention to our extensive assortment of fine eoods for sports-\\nmen; such as Salmon, Trout, and Black Bass Flies and J^nell Hooks, on^hand and tied to\\norder; Cuttyhunk and Pasque Island Bass Line j. Water-Proof Braided Silk Lines, etc., etc.\\nEvery genuine H. L. Leonard s Six-Spliced Bamboo Salmon, Trout and Bass\\nRod is marked H, L. Leonard, maker, Abbey Imbrie, sole agents. Beware of imita-\\ntions.\\nSole agents for the McCord Patent Celluloid Black Bass Reel, and Aiken Black Bai-s\\nRod.\\nProprietors of tbe celebrated Winchester Patent Braided Rods.\\nSole Importers of Joseph Warrin s Drill-Eyed and Egg-Eyed Needles.\\nParties fitted out with appropriate tackle for the Rocky Mountains, Pacific Coast,\\nCanada, Maine, Adirondacks, etc., etc.\\nOrders received by mail will receive the peisonal attention of the firm.\\nJ", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "2 m\\ni mm\\nmm$ imi\\no\\no\\nc\\nC^^-i\\nOS\\n.2 c\\n5)\\na s o", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "BARTON, ALEXANDER WALLER,\\nIMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN\\n(ili|i3, hebi Clitlery, llgMpg jscHe, etc, etc.\\nBreecli Loaders of the Prominent Manufacturers, Split\\nBamboo and otlier Fine Fishing Rods, Lines,\\nReels, Hooivs, Artificial Flies, and\\nEVERY ARTICLE REQUISITE FOR SPORTING PURPOSES,\\nlOI and 103 Duane \u00e2\u0082\u00ac*t., Hew York.\\nManufacturer s of United S tates Arms Co. Repeating Pistols, etc.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2gALLOCK s Wishing |ourist.\\nA Complete Guide for Trout and Salmon Anglers. By\\nCharles HaUock, editor of Forest and Stream. Cloth, $2,00-\\nIt contains information relative to every salmon and trout region in America. It is\\nthe fruit of the author s own wandering?, and is replete with his adventures aid ex\\nperiences. Written in a clear, unafiected, hearty style, it glows with the enthusiasm of\\na genuine sportsman, and will appeal strongly to the sympathies of every member of the\\ncraft.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J?0(0/i Journal.\\nThis \\\\i} altogether the most comprehensive guide book which has ever been published\\nfor the especial benefit of Anglers. It takes the reader to all the game waters on the con-\\ntinent, and communicates, in every ca^e, just the information desired by those who may\\nbe in search ol new fields for aport.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Albany Evening Journal.\\nHARPER BROTHERS, Publishers.\\nFor Sale by Forest Stream Publishing Company, 17\\nChatham St., and sent by mail, postage prepaid, on receipt of price.\\nMAGNOLIA H OTj SE~\\nSt. Augastine, Fla.\\nW. W. PALMER, Proprietor.\\nThis house is one of the most popular and well appointed in\\nthe State. Its proprietor will be favorably remembered by the\\npatrons of the Metropolitan Hotel, at Long Branch, last Summer.\\nPRINTER AND STEREOTYPEa\\n20 NOKTK WILLIAOT STREET, New York.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "Winchester Repeating Rifle\\nMODEL 1873.\\nW\u00c2\u00a9 BmtBF S p Ftsmm s Pmmlta\\nThis Gun is now the leading Sporting Rifle in the country, and\\nis pre-eminently adapted to all the wants of the hunter or marks-\\nman, amateur or professional.\\nIts leading qualities are lightness, combined with strength and\\ndurability, efficiency, accuracy, and unparalleled rapidity of fire.\\nJacksonville, Fla., Nov. 6, 1875.\\nWinchester Repeating Arms Co.\\nI have been hunting with one of your Rifles in this State for the last month.\\nThis gun was borrowed, and I could not buy It yet, I could have sold it many\\ntimes.\\nI wish you to send me two\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one for myself, and one for a friend.\\nWith the gun I have, I have shot more deer and game than any other of our\\nparty, and made the best target shooting.\\ns FRANK B. KNAPP.\\nExtracts from Letters.\\nAll that is claimed for it.\\nThe 7iunter\\\\ i true companion.\\nThe Ac Plus Ultra Sportiyig Gun.\\nExtremely accurate cannot be better.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0For rapidity, cannot be approacJied.^^\\nTIndonbtedly tie finest gun in the world.\\nA hard shooter, center shooter and beautiful gun.\\nThe best Repeating Rijle, now made, in the world.\\nThe best rifle now in use for hunting and sporting.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0lam satisfied that the gun is the perfection of fire-arms.\\nWill kill deer as far as a man can cover t with open sights.\\nIs sure fire and its killing qualities all that can be desired.^\\nIn conpetition with guns of other makers has given p erfect satisfaction.\\nThe most perfect of all breech-loaders for all practical at^d sporting purposes.\\nFor illustrated pamphlet and price list, address\\nWiuchester Repciitiiij? Arms Co.,\\nNE\\\\\u00c2\u00a5 HAVEN, CONN.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "TlIK\\n^r^^W\\nUnequalled for House or Camp Use.\\nThis Pipe supplies a Avant which Smokers liave long felt. It ia\\nof Briar Wood, to which a S em made of pure rag Paper is so at-\\ntached, as to prevent the bowl from accumulating rank liquid, or\\ngiving off any unpleasant taste or order. The bowl and mouth-\\npiece may be used indefinitely, and the stcn may be changed as\\noften as desired.\\nExtra Stems long and short accompany each pipe.\\nThe price of Stems, when not furnished with the Pipe, is as fol-\\nlows: 4 1-3 and 7 inch, 5 cents each; 12 inch, 15 cents each.\\nSold by Pipe and Cigar Dealers generally. A complete sample\\nsent by mail for $1.00, by\\nJ. H. HUBBARD, Selling Agent,\\nCambridge, Mass,\\nn0UI KEN\u00c2\u00bbS P ATE T COMBLNATION\\naok and Fishing Lamp,\\nHUNTING\\nSUPPORT\\nFor NIGHT HUXTING Deer and\\nother animals, SPEARING FISH.\\nI. Indispensable on any Boating, Yacht-\\ning, or Camping Trip\\nBy the use of ihe support, the light is\\nunder tlie perfect control of the wearer,\\nand leaves head and arms entirely free.\\niNot all ected by Whid, Bain or Jolfing.\\nEuri3S Iferosene safely without a chimney.\\nThrows a powerful light 200 jeet ahead. As a DASH LAM P ibr CAR\\nRIAGES it has no equal. Fits on any shaped dash or ou any vehicle.\\nFiih\\n^^m^^^^jM\\nM\\nPRICE.\\nJack and Dash, 3 Attaclinients,\\nFi^sliing Lamp, Jack and Dasli,\\nSupports, eacli,\\n$6.00\\n8.00\\n3.00\\nSent C. O. D., with privilege of examination.\\n^ack and Dasf Lamp\\nWhite Manufacturing Co., Bridgeport, Ct.\\nA liberal discount to dealers. Send for Circular.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "THE G R E A T S O VT HERN\\nFreight Passenger Line,\\nTO ALL POINTS\\nIn the South South- West, Florida Ports.\\nThe Following Magnificent Side- wheel Steamships\\nSA5L TRI-WEEKLY, AT 3 P. M.,\\nEVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY,\\nFROM PIER 29 NORTH RIVER.\\nCHAMPION,\\nCapt. R. W. Lockwood.\\nMANHAMAN,\\nCapt. M. S. VVoodhull.\\nCHARLESTON, StiUTH CAROLINA,\\nCapt. Jas. Berry.\\nJAS. ADGEIi,\\nCapt. J. T. Lockwood,\\nCapt. J. T. Beckett.\\nGEORGIA,\\nCapt. S. Crowell.\\nThese Steamships have been handsomely fitted up for the convenience of passengers,\\nand are unrivalled on the Coast for safety, speed, and comfort. They have large carrying\\ncapacity, and injure at tbe lowest rates.\\nI^^SSAO-K R^TES WROIS/L ISrE^V YORK,\\nIncluding First-Class STATEROOM and MEiLS, on Steamships to Charleston, viz.i\\nAPA.LACHICOLA, Fla $50 00\\nAUGUSTA, Ga 22 00\\nBALI)v\\\\IN,Fla 27 75\\nCEDAR KEYS, Fla .32 75\\nCHARLESl^ON, S. C 20 00\\nENTERPRISE, Fla 35 75\\nFERNANDIN a Fla 27 75\\nGAINESVILLE, Fla 30 25\\nGREEN COVE SrRlNGS, Fla 28 75\\nHAVANA 50 00\\nKEY WEST, Fla $50 00\\nLAKE ITY\\\\ Fla 30 25\\nMONTICELLO. Fla 31 25\\nORANGE MILLS, Fla 30 25\\nPALATKA. Fla 2 75\\nPENSACOLA, Fla 41 00\\nPICOLATA, Fla 28 75\\nQUINCY, Fla 32 50\\nSAVANNAH, Ga 22 GO\\nST. AUGUSTINE, Fla 31 75\\nHIBERNLA, Fla 28 75 I TALLAHASSEE, Fla 3125\\nJACKSONVILLE, Fla 27 75 I TAxMPA 41 50\\nPassengers have the privilege of taking either RAILROAD or STE \\\\MBOAT from\\nCharleston to the FLORIDA PORTS and \u00c2\u00bbT. JOHN S PJVER LANDINGS.\\nJAMES W. QUIMAI^I) CO., A-e!i!s,\\nNOi 177 WEST ST., cor. of Warren, New York.\\nJAMES ADGER CO., Agents New York and Charleston Steamtship Company, and\\nWM*^A^ COURTNEY ^8^\u00c2\u00b0*^ N- So. Car. Steamship Co., Charleston, S. C.\\nTo avoid delays, mark all goods Care of So. Ca. R.R. Agentj\\nCliarle^ton, S. C.\\nFlorida Freisltt, Care of Raveuel Co., Cliarleston, S. C.*", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "^^1\\nA Weekly Journal (of Sixteen Pages),\\nDEVOTED TO\\nPractical Natui^al History,\\nFish Culture, Protection of Game, Preservation of Forests^\\nYACHTING, BOATING,\\nAND ALL\\nIT IS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE\\nAMERICAN FISH CULTUKISTS ASSOCIATION.\\n^I)e foxtBt anh Stream\\nIs the only Journal published in this country that fully supplies the wants and\\nmeets the necessities of the\\nGentleman Sportsman.\\nSend for Specimen Copv. Termrf ?5.00 a vear. Address Forect and Stream\\nPublisliiug \u00e2\u0082\u00aco., n Chatham St. (City Hall Square). New York. Post Office Box S32.\\nTHE UF-TOWN SPORTSUKi\\\\ S DEPOT.\\nCHAS. L. RITZMANN CO.,\\n943 BROADWAY, (above 22d St,) Factory, I I 4 Centre St.\\nIMPORTERS AXD MANUFACTURERS OF\\nGuns, Rifles, Pistols, Fishing Tackle.\\nRemington Rifles and Shot Guns, Holahird Shootii^g Suits, Cartridge Vest, Belts\\nand Pouches. Implements for b^nh muzzle and hreech-loadiug gui:s.\\nSPOR l SMEN S GOODS AND AMMUNITION Oi^ ALL KINDS.\\nWe take muzzle loaders i:. exchange for breech-loaderf, aud have always some fine\\nsecoiid-haud gans on hand, clieap.\\nGoods s ^nt 0. O D. to all parts of the United States.\\nIvory and Pearl Stocks put on Pistols. Repaiiin\u00c2\u00bb of all kinds artistically executed.\\nCartridges for Breech-loading Shot Guns, ready loaded, put up in boxes ot fifty or\\nloaded to order.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "a\\n(0\\nm\\nH\\no\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0-I\\n04", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "JOHN SCN SQUARE,\\nSavannah., Ga.\\nFacing South, with a Frontage of 273 Feet.\\nS. N. PAPO T CO., Proprietors.\\nThis well-known Hotel, which has always been considered tho\\nleading Hotel in Savannah, and one of the best in the South, is\\npleasantly located in the central portion of the city, on Johnson\\nSquare, with a Southern front, which is a matter of no small im-\\nportance in this climate. In consequence of the death of the late\\nproprietor, Major W. H. Wiltbergsr, the Hotel has fallen into the\\nhands of Messrs. S. N. Papot Co., and now the new proprietors\\nhave made many changes and improvements. The whole house\\nhas been thoroughly painted, inside and out, and otherwise reno-\\nvated, and such alterations have been made in the interior ar-\\nrangements as must add to its attractions and conduce to the\\ncomfort of the guests.\\nAt this hotel every convenience is offered to the traveling public\\nin the way of Ticket Office for the Railroads and Steam- boats,\\nand here, also, Sleeping-car Tickets can be procured.\\nThe table is furnished with the best meats, poultry, and game\\nto be procured in the Boston, New York, and Baltimore markets,\\nand our corps of cooks is unsurpa-ssed by any in the country. If\\nkind and courteous treatment, with comfortable rooms, which can-\\nnot be excelled, offer any inducements to our friends going South,\\neither for health or jDleasure, we think we can safely recommend\\nthem to patronize the Pulaski during their sojourn in Savannah.\\nWHIT NE Y^\\nFlorida Pathfinder.\\nA Pocket Guide to Florida, for Invalids and Tourists, giving late\\nand reliable information of the various routes land and water\\nwith Maps, Hotels on the route of travel. Hotels and Points of\\nInterest in Florida. The Pathfinder is circula-ted among actual\\nFlorida Tourists in New York, Boston, and Philadeipbia. It hav-\\ning a larger circulation than any similar publication, its useful-\\nness as an adv^ertising medium is apparent.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "THE\\nAZARB PoiTirBESR Co.^\\nMANUTACTUREKS OF\\nFOK\\nSPORTING, RIFLE, AND TARGET USE.\\nHazard s Electric Powder-\\nNos. 1 (fiue) to 5 (coarss). Unsurpassed in point of strength and cleanliness.\\nPacked in square canisters of 1 lb. ovU^.\\nHazard s American Sporting.\\nNos. 1 (fine) to 3 (coarse). In 1 lb. canisters and 6i lb. kegs. A fine grain, quick\\nand clean, for ujDland and prairie shooting. Well adapted to shot-guns.\\nHazard s Ducic Shooting.\\nNos. 1 (fine) to 5 (coarse). In 1 and 5 lb. canisters, and 6} and V2k lb. kegs. Burns\\nslowJy and very clean, shooting .remarkably close, and with great penetration.\\nFor field, forest, or water shooting, it lanks any other brand, and it is\\n11^ equally serviceable for muzzle or breech-loader. \u00e2\u0080\u009e^3\\nHazard s Kentucky Rifle.\\nFFFG, FFG, and Sea Shooting FG, in kegs of 25, 13i and Gi lbs. and cans of\\n5 lbs. FI FG is packed in 1 and ilb. canisters. Burns strong and moist. The\\nFFFG and FFG are favorite brands for ordinary sporting and for\\nRifle Shooting.\\nThe special powder for this purpose, whether for muzzle or breech loaders, Is\\nthe Kentucky Rifle Powder FG and FFG. This powder is now made up to an\\ninvariable standard, burns strong, leaving a moist, though inconsiderable residu-\\num and for muzzle-loaders, in using a dry wad, the ball is easily rammed\\nhome. The FG and FFG are used by the majority of sportsmen and sharpshoot-\\ners. When metallic shells are used of a fixed size, for ordinary use, along range\\nmay be obtained, when lequired, by the use of Electric No. 4 in the same shell\\nbut for an invariable result with suitable shells, hand and eye being true, no\\nmore satisfactory poij der can be found than the FG Kentucky Rifle the identi-\\ncal brand used at both tlie great International matches.\\nj;^ Their Ions; experience in the preparation of Gunpowder for Cartridges enitable\\nfor the diflerent Sporting and Governvnent arms, and for the various ranges which have\\nnow become usual amon^ experts, ensures to such as load their own cartridges, the\\ncertainty of securing the oe^t ammunition for their special use.\\n\u00c2\u00aeIfi;c\u00c2\u00a9, Wall Sit \u00c2\u00a9\u00c2\u00aet, Hew \u00c2\u00a5otfc\\nTHOS. S. POPE, Sec y. A. K. DOUGL.ASS, Pr\u00c2\u00ab* t.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "THE MAGNOLIA HOTEL,\\nST. AUGUSTINE, FLA,\\nW W. r^almer.\\n^Proprietor.\\nThis favorite house will open for the approaching winter season,\\nNovember 1st.\\nThe Magnolia is located on St. George Street thq Fifth Ave.\\nof St. Augustine it stands upon the highest ground in the city,\\nand commands a fine view of the ocean.\\nSingle rooms and family apartments en suite. The cuisine is in\\nevery respect unexceptional.\\nGRAND NATIONAL HOTEL,\\nJACKSONVILLE, Florida.\\nGEORGE McGINLY, _ _ _ Proprietor.\\n^4..00 TB Jl DAT.\\nThis elegant and commodious Brick House of modern structure and furniiJhed with\\nelegant furniture, is situated within two hundred yards of the Kailroad Depot, and is uu-\\nBurpassed by any hotel in the South.", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "CONROY, BISSETT M/VLLESON,\\n65 Fulton Street, JVew York,\\nIMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF\\nPIBB BmKS FlBMim WAmS^B,\\nTRADE MARK.\\nThe attention of amateurs is particularly called to their stock of\\nLINKS\\nOf all varieties Silk, Grass, Watbr-pboop,\\nFlax, and Cotton.\\nALL DESCRIPTIONS OP\\nFLIES, SNEL.LS, HOOKS,\\nNETS, BOOKS, c., c\\nRODS.\\nSplit Bamboo, Fly and Salmom.\\nAsh and Lancewood do. do.\\nThe famed McOinniss Black Bass, and\\nall other varieties.\\nKEELS.\\nFor Salmon. Trout, Black Bass, Striped\\nBass. c., in Rubber, German Silver, andi\\nBrass. gW\u00c2\u00b0 FLIES of any pattern, tied to order.\\nParties fitted out for the Adirondacks. the Maine Woods, Lake Superior, Newport\\nCutthyunk. Pasque Island, West Island, c., c.\\n|W\u00c2\u00b0 Orders by mail will receive careful and prompt attention.\\nBELMOISTTYLE OIL.\\nPREVENTS RUST OR TARNISH\\nOn Guns and all other Polished Goods. Every man who owns a gun shonld\\nhave a bottle of it. Send for circular.\\nH. B. RIGGS, 150 Front Street, New York.\\nFOR SALE BY ALL GUN DEALERS.\\nMOUNTED\\nGame, Birds, and Mammals\\nAL.SO, SPECIIUEIVS OF NATURAL HISTORY.\\nThe subscriber has on hand a larjje collection of Specimens of Natural History, con\\nsisting of Mammals and Birds, Nests. Eggs, Reptiles, Insects, Crustaceans, etc., which\\nare now offered for sale at reasonable prices. Complete collections of well identified and\\nauthenticated s;-ecimen i (mounted or unmounted) of the above, furnished for Schools,\\nColleges, Public Institutions, and private individuals at extremely low prices.\\nSpecial attention given to mounting Game. Mammalrf, and Birds, in life-like attitudes.\\nAlso, for sale, all works on Natural History as low, if not lower, than they can be pur-\\nchased elsewhere.\\nPlease send btamp for catalogue, and state where you saw this advertisement.\\nAddress,\\nBox 82. C. J, mAYNARD, Ipswicb, Essex Co., nTaM.", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3504", "width": "2107", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 152 564 5", "height": "3514", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "camplifeinflorid01hall_0374.jp2"}}