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Island, is nearly or quite separated from the rest by a mangrove 
swamp. Just why those great dunes should have been piled up 
with all the land about them only a few feet above tide-level is 
a myster 
Curiously enough, we found the ee “pear cna 
which is on t Caxambas dunes 
$ soon ossi 
haste towards oe ae stopping only for casual observations 
ol 
ich we lar iis subsisted. e reached Fort Myers abou 
noon and mee immediately set out for La Belle, for the follow- 
This region, so named by the Indians who used to live ae 
lies far beyond civilization south of Lake Hicpochee and abou 
thirty miles southeast of La Belle. 
In the morning we were joined by our friend Dick Currey, 
who was raised with the Indians in the Devil’s Garden, and who, 
ne more of a 
than the thing for which it was supposed to function. However, 
e ally a 
and nine miles ee by pinewoods. In it ever- 
slaughtered the game upon which the Indian was dependent 
for se 
The wide prairies were bedecked with white and various- 
colored eee a to dark rose-purple. The white-heliotrope 
