Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . e. With an average altitude of say seventy-five feet, an evenly distributed rainfall of fifty-five inches, a death rate thelowest of any of the states (8 to the 1000), and an immunity from a score ofdiseases the northerner dreads, it is no wonder that thousands of northernpeople have come and are annually coming to Southwest Louisiana, andsupplanting by magnificent estates the limited and poorly cultivatedpatches of the Acadian. There are homes here for the millions who inthe East
Through storyland to sunset seas : what four people saw on a journey through the Southwest to the Pacific coast . e. With an average altitude of say seventy-five feet, an evenly distributed rainfall of fifty-five inches, a death rate thelowest of any of the states (8 to the 1000), and an immunity from a score ofdiseases the northerner dreads, it is no wonder that thousands of northernpeople have come and are annually coming to Southwest Louisiana, andsupplanting by magnificent estates the limited and poorly cultivatedpatches of the Acadian. There are homes here for the millions who inthe East and North are looking about for opportunity to better their condi-tion, and, thank goodness, they are beginning to realize it. CHAPTER V. THE TRADiridNS OF LA FITTE THAT ADHERE TO THE COUNTRY BEING TRAVERSED. E VERY waterway we cross and all the bayous and harbors on the where traditions of gulf coast to the south of us, from Barataria Bay to the Sabine the piraticalRiver, are redolent with traditions of La Fitte, the pirate of the gulf, saidthe Colonel. 1he Mermentau, which we cross just beyond Crowley, and. IN THE BAYOU COUNTRY OF LOUISIANA. the Calcasieu, at Lake Charles, are peculiarly fraught with local legends ofthe freebooters presence, and whether he ever visited them or not, theirbanks have been liberally dug up by the treasure-seeker, and the stt)ries ofhis visitations are cherished with wonderful tenacity. And more unwarranted fiction of the yellows-backed variety has beenwritten ab<nit La Fitte than any other character that we have ever had inevidence, remarked the Growler, savagely. The more I come to know of La Fitte the more respect I have for The pirate hadhim, replied the Colonel. Of course I dont admire his character, but,he added, musingly, he had his good points. It seems a pity that historyshould cruelly rob our cherished pirate of so many of the ferocious charac- 41 his good points 42 THROUGH STORYLAND TO SUNSET SEAS. teristics that appealed to our yout
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