94 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. 
‘‘ boggy,” and may be «cressed-anywhere on horseback ; but others 
are not to be trusted. Any pond may be safely crossed in which 
the low bush grows which, as Jack Davis describes it, ‘‘ favors a 
small pine.” South from Hillsboro, a distance of about twelve 
miles, we cross Cypress Creek, at the head of which is an old 
Indian Camp owned by Osceola, where the Indians build their 
THORNTON’S CAMP, HILLSBORO RIVER. 
canoes, the cypress trees in that vicinity being particularly large 
and fine. Cypress Creek is noted for the abundance of turkeys in 
that vicinity, and alligators are still numerous in its waters, which 
may be accounted for by the fact that it is not navigable for boats, 
being shallow and filled with logs. It also has the reputation of 
