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“Unfortunately the child had died before my arrival. Pi 
rhaps 
I should say ‘fortunately’ for me as I 
er 
probably could not have 
, as 
invited to depart on my return trip ark river at daybreak, 
d 
the eastern side of the pinelands meets the ev 
rales Kao boat at this point pon proceded on foot down 
the pineland io 
miles until tall p i il 
then they saded over to the ee The 
by the route they ha i. gone, but follo 
Black Point prairie. Going down the prairie for the distan 
of about ten miles they found their sail-boat where it had bee 
is connection it may be well to call attention to the ex- 
e s 
occasionally sighted and reported by hunters who penetrated 
he Everglades in search of the furs and skins of various native 
