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"This is a country of pineapple plantations" 114

"Spring and autumn kissed yesterday in the savannas east
of Lake Okeechobee" 118

"All must know when spring comes, whether in the Everglades
or the New England pastures" 124

"The others began nest building and placed some fifteen
hundred nests on the three-acre island" 134

A little group of half-grown young pelicans on the edge of
Pelican Island 138

"Up with the full tide come sometimes the tarpon, rolling
silvery bodies in the dark water" 144

"A manatee, rare indeed nowadays" 148

"Sabal palmettos whose cabbage heads tower often as high
as the pines" 154

"As quick night glooms the river the passing sun caresses
the palmettos last" 162

"A superb dignity of pose, statues of frozen alertness" 164

A little blue heron and her nest, the commonest Florida
heron 168

A Seminole village deep in the flat woods of Southern
Florida 178

The gray of dawn on the Indian River 192

"The tree is lavish to its friends and will produce fruit
almost beyond belief" 198

"Thirty miles across the barrens these have come, from
groves out at Fort Drum" 200

"A rubber tree twined its roots about a palmetto till it crushed
the trunk to a debris of rotten wood" 210

"The river is screened from your view by dense growth of
palmettos" 212

"My first glimpse came at one of these places" 222