147 
FERED SHIPWRECK; AND ALSO FROM THE CRUEL DEVOURING 
Jaws or THE INHUMAN CANNIBALS OF FLoriDA.” Philadelphia, 
1699. 
Dickenson and his shipwrecked British associates walked 
fr 
al he coastal sand-dunes from Jupiter Island to Sain 
Augustine and S ary’s under the protection (?) of the 
Florida aborigines, now extinct, and the Spanish he following 
ow! 
quotation from page 76 of the fifth edition of the above-cited 
work is among other — to the experiences of the party, 
ee in the Halifax River region. 
but being nigh the Snore, where had been an Indian 
wn, we ene thither and found some ripe Berries on the 
Shrubs. 
However, the existence of the cabbage-tree could scarcely 
have been unknown to Linnaeus, for there were long descriptions 
r by hi 
dated Decenber 27, 1765, when he wrote to John sie about a 
a from Madeira. 
“Lord Hillsborough received last summer, from Madeira, 
seeds of the Dragon Palm, and they are as they are described, 
bout the size of a pea, ae round, and horny, like the seeds 
of Palmetto from South Sptanae I shall write for some 
specimens of the flowers. I am of Mr. Loefling’s opinion 
that they belong to the Aspara: ae 
Mark Catesby? wrote quite fully concerning the subject of 
1John Ellis was born in Ireland, probably in Dublin, about 1710. He 
became a merchant in London, and amassed a considerable fortune. 
751, he he s a. 
aquatic life, especially what were then i he 
realized were some of them ined and o} ers plants. Later he studied 
in 1764, and for Dominica it in “1776, and i imported to England many scien- 
tific specimens of various oe especially seeds a ae plants. Among 
his correspondents were Linnaeus, an r. Alexa oe of ges 
: h Carolina. He di d at London, 15 ene a 
2 Correspondence of Linnaeus and Ot peree 4 
3 Mark Catesby was born at Su dbury, Suffolk, England, in 1679. He 
ith the strange natural objects about him that he resolved to retu urn to 
Aerie for the sole purpose of studying them. He arrived at Charleston 
1722, and collected and painted plants and animals in South Carolina, 
