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30 28 28 BELLE GLADE FROM SW SW AMP TO TO SUGAR BOWL
big 30 part and of of delicious this BELLE stream potato, GLADE was but dredged FROM it is SW out hotter AMP some TO than five SUGAR seven years BOWL
hundred
to to become firecrackers. a a part of of Although the Thirteen I had Mile seen Canal men taste which wampee,
Disston
big had
later
and intended
delicious
to to continue
potato,
on
but
on to to
it is
Shark
hotter River.
than
It It
seven now forms
hun­
I decided to be smart and boil the poison out. After cookdred
part of
firecrackers.
of the Miami
Although canal. As
I this
had stream
seen men was
taste typical
wampee,
ing one in several waters until the lavender liquid no of longer
showed, I took one cautious bite and spit it out. In what
a
ing it it was one like.
in several waters until the lavender liquid no long­
few seconds my mouth felt like a thousand burning needles,
er showed, I took one cautious bite and spit it out. In a
and the "The sensation river at at lasted
of the
I lake's decided dead to be
rivers, smart including and boil the
the Democrat,
poison out. let's
After see
cook­
its its mouth until is next
is about day. 100 Scientists yards say
wide, that
few the
wampee seconds depth of of juice my water contains mouth felt being microscopic like a thousand
about eight balls
feet. which burning needles,
To say expel that innumerable
and the sensation little party tiny was needles lasted until
our
overjoyed with next would great day. but force. Scientists poorly Great say express grief, that
it. We
I
wampee juice contains microscopic balls which expel in­
know do do not that's
go go one so, hundred and those yards needles before are we red hear hot to
exclamations
boot! Yet
numerable tiny needles with great force. Great grief, I
strangely from the enough,
members wild of of hogs
the party used
in in to praise love the of of root, the beautiful
and got
unbelievably know that's so, scenery which fat and on
greets it. those A the sawgrass needles are eye on on hog red every would hot side. eat to There a boot! wampee Yet
strangely is is no no
and perceptible squeal enough, in
current pain, wild so but hogs
so far then used as as he'd to
we can root love discern. up the another. root, and The water Even got
unbelievably fat on it. A sawgrass hog would eat a wampee is is
the clear jackdaws as as crystal, which the used banks to fringed follow us
with as a we
a dense grubbed tropical
up
and squeal in pain, but then he'd root up another. Even
sawgrass growth of of roots, trees, would presenting peck on to to a
the wampee, view a a then solid gape
green their
the jackdaws which used to follow us as we grubbed wall,
up
bills impenetrable toward the to to sky the while eye. their
This tongues
wall is is cooled
formed off.
sawgrass roots, would peck on a wampee, then gape by by their vines,
bills which As toward the
have party the twined sky penetrated around while their the trunks tongues Everglades and cooled branches they off.
seemed
of of the
also trees, to and have have been interlaced oppressed and by the
wound uncanny themselves silence.
As the party penetrated the Everglades they seemed
around
each "All other around until us they reigns form a a death-like a screen which stillness is is unrelieved
also to have been oppressed by the uncanny silence.
almost suf­
by ficient any sound to to shut of out animal the life light of of of any day. description. Looking behind The croaking
find of that a frog, we the are hoot followed of an by by owl, innumerable or the bellow alligators, of an alli­
who
us us we
"All around us reigns a death-like stillness unrelieved
by gator any are swimming would sound be of a animal
lazily relief." life along This of
in in caused any description.
our wake. a "feeling The From all all of sides depression
of see we a
croak­
we
ing them cannot frog, the plunging avoid." hoot of an owl, or the bellow of an alligator
would be a relief." This caused a "feeling of depres­
seconds, rise after we have passed and join the crowd be­
in in the water, remain under for a a few
sion As
we they
cannot progressed,
avoid."
the water in places became somewhahind
deeper. us. We On do do the not go 21st go two they miles found before ponds the in which river begins
their
to to As get they narrow, progressed, and we find the water ourselves in in places in a a little became stream some­
boats could float and that day they made a mile and only
a
what a a few deeper. yards in On in width, the 21st the they sunlight found completely ponds in which shut out their
half. On the 24th the first dry ground was discovered­babout
five feet square, and on the 28th their first island,
by
boats the branches could float of of and trees that day vines, they which made have a mile interlocked
a
half. and On twined the around 24th the each first other dry until ground a a perfect was discovered­
some five acres in extent. However on December roof 3rd ed ed ... five After feet going square, half and a a mile, on the we 28th find we their are first no no longer island,
islands were more numerous and the water courses deeper in in
form­
the
about some a a stream, five acres but winding in extent. around However in in dark, on December sluggish water, 3rd the
and more plentiful. On that day they made fifteen miles,
the
islands roots and were branches more numerous of of trees and the forming water a a courses barrier deeper
on December 6th they travelled thirty-five, for to to they
our
and further more progress plentiful. ... On As that we return day they we made examine fifteen more miles,
then were in Shark River, which they descended to closely
its
and mouth the on
vines at December the which Gulf grow
6th of so
they
so Mexico.
luxuriantly,
travelled Here and
thirty-five, find that
for they
they
they boarded are
then a a species were of of in gourd, Shark with River, innumerable which they gourds descended hanging to from its
schooner which had come to meet them for the return to
mouth them, perfectly
the Gulf round,
of and
Mexico.
about Here civilization. The entire trip from the Lake size
they
of Okeechobee of a a
boarded billiard had the
ball.
schooner taken The vines 27 which days run and all
had
all their over
come average the
to trees,
meet speed, them
and on on except for the
the for ground
return the form
day to
civilization. in a a Shark mat two River, or
The
or three had entire been feet
trip deep." only from three Lake miles Okeechobee a day.
had
taken 27 days and their average speed, except for the day
in Shark River, had been only three miles a day.
DEMOCRAT RIVER 28 31
30 29 29 BE B
DEMOCRAT Major When Williams RIVER
I I first came concludes
to to this his lake report these by
gourds stating still that
were
part 31 big of and this delic s
the plentiful Everglades in in the "are custard nothing apple more forest, nor although less than they a vast
to
then
dred become firecrac a p
Major Williams concludes his report by stating that
and were useless less luxuriant marsh, and than such the they moon will vine, remain a a kind for of of all morning
time had I decided intended to
the Everglades "are nothing more nor less than a vast
to glory, come in
which my estimation."
completely blanketed Good golly, the he should
tops and see the them part ing exposed
flanks of of the custard apple woods, making a a shadowy
one of the in se M
and useless marsh, and such they will remain for all time
now!
lake's er showed, dead ri I
to come in my estimation." Good golly, he should see them
dusk at at mid day.
it few was seconds like. m
now!
And so that was the first trip ever made .from Lake
and the sens
Okeechobee After cruising southward the through
south shore the for. length nine of
days the the Ever­
party
"The river
And so that was the wampee juic
glades, arrived, yes, near and the the southernmost last first one too, trip point until ever on on the made the Miami .from lake, Canal Lake
at depth
at the
of wat
Okeechobee southward through the length of the Everglades,
yes, and the last one too, rivers. until the This Miami they christen­
Canal know that's
numerable t
was largest surveyed and longest some thirty of of all all years
these later.
little party wa
do not go one
was ed ed But surveyed T-D, let's or or take Times-Democrat some a closer thirty look years at River. what later.
Democrat After traversing River was
this strangely eno
from the mem
like stream in those to to its its primeval end, they days. laid a The a course scribe south of this by by expedition the compass unbelievably
for But Shark let's take River, a closer ninety look miles at what away by Democrat by air line. River Although
was scenery which
gives us a detailed account, though curiously enough, he and squeal i
perceptible cu
never like water in mentions those had evidently primeval those ancient days. been five The mounds feet scribe over at of the the this land expedition
river's not fork.
the too jackdaws
gives long us before, a detailed they found account, that it though it now was curiously a a scant enough, five inches,
clear as cryst
Maybe the jungle growth was so dense that they weren't sawgrass roo
never and under mentions that those was fifteen ancient feet, mounds more at or or the of growth of tre
even noticed.
less, river's of soft fork.
mud. bills toward
Maybe the jungle growth was so dense that they weren't impenetrable
So So now they are compelled to to battle the sharp-edged which As have the tw p
even "On noticed.
the 10th day of November," he relates, "ere the
first sawgrass, streaks which of dawn, they every had believed man in to camp to be be was only astir." ten miles The trees, also in in to and have ha
extent,
"On the
but 10th
which
day actually
of November," persisted clear
he
to
relates,
to the headwaters
"ere the
boats were loaded and for a few hundred yards were rowed each "All other arou un
first up of of Shark
streaks River.
of dawn,
At At times
every they
man were
in camp able to
was
to burn
astir." The
the stream. Then the oars were stowed away for the last sawgrass,
ficient by any to sound shu
boats were but
loaded usually
and the
for way
a few must
hundred
be be hacked
yards with
were machetes.
rowed
time "for poles will have to be used for many miles to come. find ing of that a frog we
up For
the many
stream. days
Then they
the were
oars compelled
were stowed
to to push
away and
for the
lift last
The river has narrowed down to a stream not more than their are gator swimming would
time boats
"for every
poles foot
will
of of
have the to
way,
be used
often
for making
many only
miles
a a
to few
come.
five or six feet in depth, dark, sluggish and with a slight
hundred
see sion them we cann plun
The river yards
has
in in
narrowed
a a day. On
down November
to a stream
17th, a a not
week
more after
than
perceptible current running north. The boughs of the trees
leaving
seconds, As they rise p
five or the
six lake,
feet
a a
in tall
depth, cypress
dark,
at at
sluggish Democrat
and River
with a
was
slight
lap over the water, the vines form a perfect network to hind still what us. deeper. We
perceptible visible to to current
the naked
running eye.
north. The boughs of the bar our progress, and to all appearances when we approach trees to boats get narrow could
lap over the water, the vines form a perfect network these barriers it seems as if the end of the water course to a half. few On yards the i
bar our Constantly progress, they and to were all appearances plagued by by innumerable when we approach
snakes,
has been reached, but with a few strokes of the machetes, the about branches five fe
these though barriers fortunately, it seems nobody as if the was end bitten. of the But water they course
were
axes and hatchets our way is cleared, and our and some twined five ac ar
has tortured been reached, by by mosquitoes, but with a leeches few strokes and poisonous journey is
of the machetes,
wampee
resumed for a few yards until the next obstruction ed islands ... After were g
axes plants and "which hatchets produce our way a a is terrible cleared, burning and our sensation. is reach­
journey is Its
ed, sometimes a sunken log, the roots of trees extending a and stream, more but ple
resumed appearance for a is is few similar yards to to until the water next lily, obstruction the leaf being is reach­
from
across the whole channel, or the branches of trees which roots and on and Dece bra
ed, six sometimes to to twelve a inches sunken across, log, the the roots of running trees to extending to a a depth
reach the surface of the water. We have gone a couple of further then were progr in
across of of six the inches, whole and channel, resembles or the a a shallot branches in in of appearance. trees which
We
miles when we discover that the river no longer exists, but the mouth vines at whi th
reach had the surface curiosity of to to the taste water. it. We We shall have do do gone so so no no a couple more!"
has lost itself in the dense swamp of custard of
apples. Our a schooner species of whi g
miles Yes,
when
I I
we know
discover blamed
that well
the river
they no
didn't!
longer That
exists, wampee
but
compass is now, and will be until the end of our voyage, them, civilization. perfect
has was
lost
a a itself
hellish
in plant,
the dense nobody
swamp would
of custard our only guide. We are now penetrating ever a taste
apples.
it it twice!
Our
portion of the The taken vines 27 day run
compass state Indian which is
turnip
now, has never it's
and called
will been up
be
up done until north. before the It's
end by tuber any of our white looks
voyage,
man,
like a in a mat a Shark two Riv or
our only guide. We are now penetrating a portion of the
state which has never been done before by any white man,