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shooting he wants. Change No. 9 shot 
for No. 4, and take a row around Lake 
Santa Fe, or any other about there, and 
you immediately have a change of sport. 
The edges of the lake are fringed with 
grass and bonnets, with little bays of the 
same, every now and then, making a per- 
fect home for duck. Ask the darkey 
who is leaning against that tree, grinning 
at you and your gun, to push you around 
in a flat-bottom boat among the bonnets 
and grass. He'll do it all day for two 
bits. In this way you will again get all 
the shooting you want;or if you get 
tired of that, place yourself in some 
cover or some knoll between any two 
lakes toward sundown, and take them as 
they fly over. They are there every 
Winter, and will be until the last of 
March or the Ist of April. But shoot- 
ing at this game grows monotonous 
after a while, be it ever so good, and 
variety is the spice of life with sports- 
men as well as with all other classes. 
To get this, start for the sandhills for 
deer, or to the hammock for turkey. 
You will have to go three, four or five 
miles, perhaps, and you had better cal- 
culate to stay two or three days and 
have a good camp hunt. <A good bed 
and good accommodations—very essen- 
tial after a day’s tramp—can be found 
right on the banks of Santa Fe Lake. 
Mr. Lambdin’s house is near, and over- 
looks the lake. His charges are moder- 
ate—$5 per week. Here you will be 
sure to receive the best of treatment, and 
everything will be done to make your 
stay pleasant, and on leaving you will be 
glad to have met him and to call him a 
friend, and will want to come back again. 
This is also just the place to make head- 
quarters, From here you can go out in 
almost any direction for hunting excur- 
sions. Getting off Transit Railroad at 
Ca a a ace ar ee  ee 
Waldo, then eight miles’ wagon ride 
will bring you to this region. 
CALOOSAHATCHIE—BIG CYPRESS SWAMP— 
THE EVERGLADES. 
If there is in the United States a dis- 
trict of country that can excel the Ca- 
loosahatchie and the country south and 
east from it to the Big Cypress and 
Everglades, in its attractions to the 
sportsman, it must indeed be a wonder- 
ful country for game. The quail, wild 
ducks, wild turkey and deer, are as plen- 
tiful in this region as the most ardent 
sportsman could desire ; and then the 
Caloosahatchie and Charlotte Harbor 
abound in fish—in fact, it cannot be ex- 
celled in the quantity, quality, and vari- 
ety of the fishes. During Winter the 
climate is not to be surpassed, cool enough 
for healthful excercise, and never cold 
enough for discomfort. The country is 
open and the Jand firm. A horse at full 
speed can be ridden almost anywhere 
without roads or paths. Nowhere else 
can the sportsman have such variety. 
Upon the water there is good fishing, 
unsurpassed in any country ; numerous 
water birds with rare plumage, and sea 
shells of great variety and beauty. Upon 
the land, if an attempt were made to de- 
scribe the quantity of wild turkeys and 
deer, it would hardly be believ 1. One 
fact will illustrate: Three In tians who 
were hunting upon the borde.s of Big 
Cypress, killed, in fifteen days, ninety- 
seven deer, and as they killed these deer 
for the hides, they killed only such as 
were large, and the skins of which were 
saleable, 
The sportsman, to enjoy fully a few 
months’ sojourn in this region, should go 
prepared to take care of himself. It 
would be best that several gentlemen 
should unite, get a good boat, good 
