Chapter XV: 224

Longevity in St. Augustine--Manufacture of orange marmalade and wine--"El Pavo Real"--Genovar & Brother, wine-makers--Visitors leaving--A page from unwritten history--Tolling the bells for the pope--Grand illumination by the Yacht Club--The _ignes-fatui_ boats--String-band and dancing--Capricious weather a comfort to growlers--A change to balmy air and waving palms--The Indians leave--They have no use for Government clothes on the plains--Mrs. Black Horse and Mochi dressed in hats and plumes--The Indians leave their Moody & Sankey song-books--A picture written letter from the squaw of Minimic--These Indians differ from novel-writer characters--The strain of civilization during their stay being too great they mutiny, headed by White Horse--A squad of soldiers from the barracks search and iron four of them--Fort closed to visitors--They pine for home, the aristocracy of their nature scorning restraint--Money made by polishing sea-beans, etc.--Description of St. Anastasia Island--Ponies feeding on marsh-grass--Attack of General Oglethorpe in 1740--The old light-house built by the Spanish, and used as a fortress--Fresh water in mid-ocean caused from lime-sinks--Treaty of Fort Moultrie--Origin of the Seminoies.

CHAPTER XVI.....235

Burning of the Spanish Governor's son by the Indians over a century since--The Great Spirit as arbiter--Fort Matanzas--Its age, use, present appearance--Entered by an escalade--New Smyrna settled by Dr. Turnbull with his Greek colony--They at first engage in the culture of indigo, which soon fails--Great dissatisfaction among the colonists, who are finally released, and retire to St. Augustine--The Douglass Dummit Plantation--Indian Key Massacre, August 15, 1840--Murmurings of the citizens.

CHAPTER XVII.....245

The Everglades Expedition, under Colonel Harney, 1841--Preparations--Spanish Indians--Leave Fort Dallas, arriving at Chitto's Island--The bird flown--Sam Jones's Island, containing villages and pleasure-grounds--The soldiers greatly annoyed by roaches and musquitoes--Prophet's Island--Discovery by Indians--Sergeant Searles mortally wounded--Arrival at New River--Fort Dallas--General appearance and extent of the Everglades--Manilla hemp and the cotton-plant indigenous--Return of Colonel Harney--Grand ovation in St. Augustine--Sorrowful reflection on the situation--Present inhabitants of the Everglades--Old Tiger Tail--Intrenches himself in Mexico as brigand, afterward makes his way to Florida, and becomes chief of the Seminoles--Father Dufau goes to the Everglades as a missionary--"Two squaws no good"--Dress of the Indians--Everglade alligators and moccasins no respecters of persons--Primeval condition of the country, with its trees, birds, and native growth.

CHAPTER XVIII.....260

From Jacksonville to Cedar Keys--The Florida Central--Baldwin--Alligators and moccasins--West India Transfer Railroad--Piney Woods--Trail Ridge--Lawtey--Starke--Turpentine distillery--Serenades--Waldo--Alachua county--Hummock-lands and phosphates--The indignant Boston lady--Alachua settled in 1750 by an Indian named Secoffe--Juggs or sinks--Approach to Gainesville--This town named for General E. P. Gaines--Accommodations for visitors--Tillandsia and its uses--Orange Lake the natural home of the orange--Budded trees--Eucalyptus-tree for malarial districts--Information on the subject of lands--Orange City, Arredondo, Albion, and other prospective cities--Bronson--Its good settlers--Otter Creek--"Great Gulf Hummock"--Its tropical growth.