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Présentation de l'éditeur
Issue up a narrow creek for an hour to leave provision stores and whisky at the camp of a woodsman. As we threaded our way in the Cimmerian gloom with interlacing brandies overhead, and sometimes sweeping the upper deck, the wildfowl were startled from their slumbers and the owls roused to a vigorous protest against the invasion of their domain?. But the lynx-eyed pilot, who successfully steered liis way along the tortuous channel with not even tlie friendly glare of a lantern at the bow was to me tlie greatest wonder of the excursion. A gain in theS t. John s, we found oiu selves at daylight nearing a bluff, where we left Pi ofessor Wyman and his annual camping companion. G. A. Peabody, Esq.. of Salem, Massachusetts. To their great disgust, a squatter had taken possession of their old camping-site, and abeady erected a log house in the orange-laden grove. Appearing at the door with rifle in hand, he saluted the oldcomers with, How dye, gen lmen, come to squat here? In the af ernoon another side issue to the left took us into Lake Bcresford to leave another squatter, who had migrated from Georgia, and at a ventiu:e was being landed in a swamp with a wife and several children between the age of two months and twelve years. As their scanty furniture was handed out and the family left on the beach in the rain, with no shelter, and miles away from any human sympathizers, three hearty cheers were given by their departing fellow-passengero for the American pluck, male and female, that ever adapts itself to physical smroundings, however forlorn the prospect. Once more on theS t. John s, we found its breadth steadily narrowing, till it was reduced to less than 200ft., an advantage to the hunters on board, of which they were not slow to avail themselves, in popping away at every alligator and large bird that appeared at short or long range. Soon, however, the banks r
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Though a native of Massachusetts, it was my fortune, at the age of thirteen, to enjoy squirrel, opossum and fox hunting in interior Virginia; at nineteen, cleer, coon and bear chasing in southwestern Georgia; at twenty-five, plover, duck and hawk shooting in southeastern New England ;at forty, a sight of wild chamois in the high A lps, and at fifty-five, a camp life of fifty consecutive days in the miasmatic swamps and everglades around Lake Okechobee in southern Florida. The object of this narrative is to give a detailed account of this latter experience in the most forbidding of all wild regions ;but to the naturalist a perfect elysium. The mention ofF lorida suggests the invalid, but should not in the case of myself or my tee companions, the one an experienced collector of forty, inured to all the hardships of camp life, and recognized by naturalists as Doctor P., and the other two, youths of eighteen, inexperienced, but enthusiastic, whom we will callE rwin andF red. For hunting-dress outfit, I was provided with a suit of sail-cloth, colored yellowish-brown or butternut, to resemble dead leaves, the sack-coat prepared with ten pockets, besides one, full size of the skirt, for large specimens, the pants with six pockets, two blue flannel shirts, with inside pockets for watch, money and photographs, all wrapped in oil silk bags, (carefully keeping paper money from contact with the oil silk surface, by first enclosing it in an envelope,) military boots and brogans, and four pair of thick woolen socks. A ny sort of vest is an incumbrance on hunting excursions. A huswife well provided with sewing materials, extra buttons, pieces of cloth in variety for mending garments aud dressing wounds, was not omitted.
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