Florida Swamps and Forests 
where accompanied by fine grasses and solida- 
goes. Wild orange groves are said to be rather 
common here, but I have seen only limes grow- 
ing wild in the woods. 
Came to a hut about noon, and, being weary 
and hungry, asked if I could have dinner. After 
serious consultation I was told to wait, that 
dinner would soon be ready. I saw only the 
man and his wife. If they had children, they 
may have been hidden in the weeds on account 
of nakedness. Both were suffering from ma- 
larial fever, and were very dirty. But they did 
not appear to have any realizing sense of dis- 
comfort from either the one or the other of 
these misfortunes. The dirt which encircled 
the countenances of these people did not, like 
the common dirt of the North, stick on the 
skin in bold union like plaster or paint, but 
appeared to stand out a little on contact like a 
hazy, misty, half-aerial mud envelope, the most 
diseased and incurable dirt that I ever saw, 
evidently desperately chronic and hereditary. 
It seems impossible that children from such 
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