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ually into the I£vcrg-ladc3 with its ^reat vistas of waving saw 

 grass and rushes. Now and then a " cypress " may be seen 

 not far from the canal. A last straight stretch known as the 

 Four Mile Canal brings us to Lake Hicopochee. This is a 

 small, roundish shaped lake about five miles in diameter con- 

 nected with Lake Okeechobee by the Three Mile Canal. 

 About Lake Okeechobee the timber is principally cypress on 

 the east side, with great tangles of the impentrable custard 

 apples on the south and southwesterly side. 



On the first day out but a short distance was made, owing 

 to motor trouble, but on the 5th, running from daylight till 

 well on into the evening, we reached Lake Hicopochee. On 

 the following day we explored the marshes and prairies about 

 the lake, and in the late afternoon ran through the canal to 

 Lake Okeechobee, tying up for the night under the " Flat- 

 topped Cypress," a landmark well known to all travelers of 

 this region, serving as it does to guide their craft to the ca- 

 nal. The 7th was stormy, so we did not venture out onto the 

 lake, but on the 8th, the weather clearing, we ran to Rita, a 

 little settlement at the beginning point of the South Canal, 

 which is to lead to Miami. The 9th, 10th and 11th were spent 

 searching for rookeries about the southerly and easterly portion 

 of the lake. At Kramer's Island in South Bay we had the mis- 

 fortune to suffer a serious breakdown in the form of a cracked 

 piston, which halted further progress. As we were planning to 

 to make the balance of the four-week trip in a canoe, we had 

 the further misfortune of Baynard being taken down with a 

 severe attack of chills and fever. After he had taken 120 

 grains of quinine and apparently getting worse, and being 

 140 miles from a doctor, we decided it better to cut short our 

 stay, and an opportunity offering, on the morning of the 

 12th, we had the disabled Egret and owner towed back to 

 Fort Myers, reaching there on the morning of the 13th. 



Taken as this list was in the early part of March, it of 

 course contains many northern birds still lingering here in 

 their winter haunts. A number of the early returning mi- 

 grants from points still farther south were drifting into this 



