478 SEMINOLE INDIANS OF FLORIDA. 
(1) The Big Cypress Swamp settlement; (2) Miami River settlement ; 
(3) Fish Eating Creek settlement; (4) Cow Creek settlement; and (5) 
Cat Fish Lake settlement. Their locations are, severally: The first, in 
Monroe County, in what is calied the “ Devil’s Garden,” on the north- 
western edge of the Big Cypress Swamp, from fifteen to twenty miles 
southwest of Lake Okeechobee; the second, in Dade County, on the 
Little Miami River, not far from Biscayne Bay, and about ten miles 
north of the site of what was, during the great Seminole war, Fort Dal- 
las; the third, in Manatee County, on a creek which empties from the 
west into Lake Okeechobee, probably five miles from its mouth; the 
fourth, in Brevard County, on a stream running southward, at a point 
about fifteen miles northeast of the entrance of the Kissimmee River into 
Lake Okeechobee; and the fifth, on a small lake in Polk County, lying 
nearly midway between lakes Pierce and Rosalie, towards the head- 
waters of the Kissimmee River. The settlements are from forty to sev- 
enty miles apart, in an otherwise almost uninhabited region, which is 
in area about sixty by one hundred and eighty miles. The camps of 
which each settlement is composed lie at distances from one another 
varying from a half mile to two or more miles, In tabular form the 
population of the settlements appears as follows: 















| Population. 
| Divided according to age and sex. | 
Settlements ia ea, | 7 7 1 = a | eres im : ecu 
* a  Below5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15to 20) 20 to 60 Over 60 Pera 
| 3 years. years. years. years. | years. years. 
| Oo | 
ee | ee wees a ¥ | @ 
| | ese | | | PaaS iS 
Ds. oy Ws a i Wen Ms GO We F. M. | F.|M.| F.| 5 
- | a aa. ee ee a | 
| | | | | 
1. Big Cypress.... | 10} 4) 5) a2/ 2 LOW eto ee2a | 5) | ree: 2) 3 | 42) 31) 73 
2. Miami River -. 5 | 5 | <4 4) 4 5 | 3 We et Oa ee 1 | 2.) 32 | 31 63 
3. Fish Eating | 4 | a. Velposece | 2 (PR | eacl |) 98} 1 a5 | abl0 1 | Bi Patsy la) BPI 
Creek. | | | | . | 
4. Cow Creek...... | a) Bij 1 |.=--2: 3 Helsea|ede 1 | 4 Gy Meee Faas 7| S| 12 
5. Cat Fish Lake -.| 2 | --.--.- 2 3| 2 Ah ll |e ae a4 abs Dy AS 6S nee: 
( 38 46 8 | 9 |112 | 96 | 208 
Totals -.--. 4 — = as el 
Uj 22 84 7 | 208 | 
= pane Ne == ss 
a One mixed blood b One black. 
Or, for the whole tribe —. 
Males under 10 years of age. -----~ -- foc. occ ase cones mnie wepia= nea 21 
Males between 10 and 20 years of age.:....----.---. 12-202 --------«.--=---- AD 
Males between 20 and 60 years of age...-....---. .----- --- 2+ -ennee eo - Rife Ose: 
Males over 60 years Of age. ..- 22. 222 oe cone co wens eee ne ee enn e none oan ne == == 8 
— 112 
Females'under 10) years of age). 2<)-s—c-secee <n mee 2 niente alee elo 23 
Females between 10 and 20 years of age.... .-.. ----0.----0- ---- -----0 --- 2 18 
Females between 20 and 60 years of age.----..--------20. - ---------+------ 46 
Females over 60 years of age...--. ------ ---2~ --00 ne oo nn e ene econ =n 9 F 
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