Florida Swamps and Forests 



where accompanied by fine grasses and solida- 

 goes. Wild orange groves are said to be rather 

 common here, but I have seen only Hmes grow- 

 ing wild in the woods. 



Came to a hut about noon, and, being weary 

 and hungry, asked if I could have dinner. After 

 serious consultation I was told to wait, that 

 dinner would soon be ready. I saw only the 

 man and his wife. If they had children, they 

 may have been hidden in the weeds on account 

 of nakedness. Both were suffering from ma- 

 larial fever, and were very dirty. But they did 

 not appear to have any realizing sense of dis- 

 comfort from either the one or the other of 

 these misfortunes. The dirt which encircled 

 the countenances of these people did not, like 

 the common dirt of the North, stick on the 

 skin in bold union like plaster or paint, but 

 appeared to stand out a little on contact like a 

 hazy, misty, half-aerial mud envelope, the most 

 diseased and incurable dirt that I ever saw, 

 evidently desperately chronic and hereditary. 



It seems impossible that children from such 

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