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For nearly twenty years public and popular interest in this 
hammock has been growing. This interest gained momentum, 
without opposition, and an account of the e many 1 narrow escapes 
work o 
told them of an island far away in the Everglades with large 
a t n hu 
portions of the Ever de but there appears to be no definite 
record to this effect preserved. 
In response to inquiries I have received accounts of two in- 
r 
peninsula, the other from the eastern side. Mr. Kirk Munroe, 
author, and student of the Seminoles, says in a letter recently 
received: 
“As regards Royal Palm Hammock—In the winter of 1881-82 
I spent four months cruising in a sailing canoe on the west coast 
of Florida from Cedar Keys to Key West. i February, 1882, 
oF pom i ee 4 Fee 1 
of charcoal burners. I had a medicine kit (oni which I had 
i e 
es 
camp on the edge of a low hammock island, or Everglade key, 
on which grew a number of Royal Palms which I recognized from 
eto seen ao at Panama. 
history of the campaign 
ine, 4: 5-16, 1916. 
