grounds of the Seminole Indians. It was a closed country to 

 the white man, except to the more venturesome— particularly 

 those who were in search of plume-birds. Even now if one 

 happens to meet an Indian in the southern end of the Ever- 

 glades and asks him where the plume-birds are he will invariably 

 point in the direction of the Cape Sable region. 



elsewhere in southern Florida, and the large epiphytic cactus, a 

 prickly-apple (Harris™ Simpsonii) , which grew invariably on 

 logs and tree-trunks, usually two to six feet above the hammock 

 floor. Here, it had taken itself to the trees just as about Cuth- 



across the peninsula to Fort Myers. Our course was the same 



Hungry Land and the Alapattah Flats and the shore of Lake 

 Okeechobee to Okeechobee City. 



