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FOREST AND STREAM 
May, 1918 
PART SIX OF “LOST IN THE EVERGLADES,” A STORY OF THE BRAVE ENDEAVOR 1 
OF THE KING PARTY TO EXPLORE UNKNOWN PARTS OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA 
By W. LIVINGSTON LARNED 
T HE city of Miami, Florida, thrilled 
with a new sensation! Morning and 
afternoon papers suddenly came out 
with the startling information that great 
concern was felt for the members of the 
King Surveying Party, long overdue. They 
were to have been absent approximately 
two weeks—three at the most. Supplies 
for that period had been taken. No food 
of consequence could be obtained in the 
Eve r g 1 a d e s. 
Game was 
known to be 
scarce, because 
of the contin¬ 
ued and per¬ 
sistent drought. 
No great as¬ 
sistance could 
be expected 
from the In¬ 
dians. Those 
familiar with 
the region 
were frankly 
anxious. Some¬ 
thing MUST 
have happened 
—s o m e acci¬ 
dent—some un¬ 
foreseen ca¬ 
lamity ! 
It had been 
agreed, before 
Mr. King’s de¬ 
parture, that 
he would re¬ 
port back to 
Capt. Jaudon 
o n February 
24th. His task 
would be com¬ 
pleted easily 
within that pe¬ 
riod. And now, 
as day fol¬ 
lowed day, and 
nothing was 
heard of the 
advent urers, 
Mrs. King and 
her daughter 
had every rea¬ 
son to specu¬ 
late on the pos- 
sib i 1 i t ies of 
some unfore¬ 
seen accident. 
At the expiration of two desperately ap¬ 
prehensive weeks, the news of the disaster 
was not only circulated from one end of 
Florida to the other, but, because of the 
peculiar character of the Expedition and 
its intimate relation with Government canal 
development, the news was wired broad¬ 
cast. Chicago and New York papers car¬ 
ried stories of the search. Societies in¬ 
terested in exploration took up the prob¬ 
lem. Mr. King’s many New York friends 
kept the telegraph offices hot with inquiry. 
There was pathos in the situation. Mr. 
King was accompanied by his son and 
young Catlow—mere boys. The wife and 
daughter were utterly helpless. It was 
the monotony of waiting—waiting—and 
hoping against hope, that made the pain 
more terrible to* endure. 
Theodore Junkin and Roy Osteen, expe¬ 
rienced in ’Glade work, set forth in quest 
of the wanderers. Junkin, half-brother to 
Catlow, with a companion, was gone for 
a four-day scouting expedition. He re¬ 
turned with no news. But he did tell of 
the terror and baffling mystery of the ter¬ 
ritory. Osteen 
was exhausted. 
Junkin was 
weak from the 
hard trip. 
“At time s," 
said Junkin, 
“as we walked 
through the 
knife - like saw 
grass, spring¬ 
ing from rock 
to rock that 
protruded from 
the surface of 
the slimy water, 
we would mis¬ 
take a patch of 
fungus for firm 
footing, and, 
jumping on it, 
plunge to our 
waists or arm- 
pits into the 
soft ooze of 
the swamps. 
Our faces, as 
you see, were 
cut and our 
hands lacerated 
by the saw 
grass. Even 
four days of it 
managed to 
slash shoes and 
clothing to 
pieces.” 
At that time, 
it was Junkin’s 
opinion that 
some serious 
accident had 
happened to one 
member of the 
party and the 
others were 
unwilling t o 
leave him. 
There were the venomous snakes—diamond 
back rattlers, moccasins and coral snakes. 
A fall on the jagged limestone rock, in 
ONLY SILENCE 
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Whp Are Now I ong 
Overdue 
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[And Saw Two Separate Parlies, | 
But Tlioy Might Have 
Been Searchers 
to m 
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Concerning Them 
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SEARCHERS GO 
FOR A CLUE] 
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Try It Today . 
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AND NO NEWS] 
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From the Missing fariy 
In Everglades 
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Ill Assist In the Search-1 
Three Scouts Lett Yes¬ 
terday In Canoe 
NEW THEORIES 
HEARD AS TO 
KING PARTYI 
Brother ol Young Catlow Be-| 
lieves One of the Three 
Has Been Injured. 
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1 Prairie 
[mils 
STIEL HOLD 
THEIR SECRET 
|Ming leaks Out as to the] 
' Whereabouts of Missing 
King Party. 
lh “ Morr,i„ g 
poking C/arf, 
F ° r Men 
MAY HAVE LOST B0AT|™Y OF ACCIDENT 
.Is the Supposition of Olhers-J 
Nothing Heard of Them 
Yesterday. 
|Glade Guides and Trappers Do | 
Not Think There Has Been 
Foul Play. 
NEWSPAPER 
PECOBD a™ 1 * 
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111 TRACE HU1N0 
OE THE LOST MEN 
IH THFEUDESI 
I More Scotching St,rtt M 
Out Today lo Hop* of Finding 
John W. King and Son 
and Will Callow 
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LOST SEVEN 
DAYS IK THE 
EVERGLADES 
| Arialor I, Flying 0« r (te . c , 
Torfitf lo An Effort lo Fir 
Some Trace of Mining 
Men 
