Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . re joined a caravan des-tined for the nation. Before leaving, he observed in a gardentwo large trees of Juglans iiecan, and also the Dioscorea hul-hifera., which bears fruit in the leaves two to three feet fromthe ground and tastes like the yam.^ His servant or companion was a Mustee Indian, who had beenin the Choctaw nation and learned their songs and dances, but,not conformin
Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . re joined a caravan des-tined for the nation. Before leaving, he observed in a gardentwo large trees of Juglans iiecan, and also the Dioscorea hul-hifera., which bears fruit in the leaves two to three feet fromthe ground and tastes like the yam.^ His servant or companion was a Mustee Indian, who had beenin the Choctaw nation and learned their songs and dances, but,not conforming to their customs, he had been chased by them toMobile, whence he was going to the Creeks. Bartrams horsegave out, and, to keep up with his companions, he had to buy anew one from some traders whom they met. It cost him tenpounds. The custom of traders is to let their horses graze atnight, he says, and they do not get ready to start in the morn-ing until the sun is high. Then they decamp, the loaded beastsfalling into single file, urged on with whip and whoop. At this lively pace he continued his journey for several * Bartrams Travels, p. 427 ; Pittmans Mississippi Settlements, p. Bartrams Travels, p. WHAT BARTRAM SAW. 303 days, but, when lie passed the line of 33° on Mobile River,where the lUicium groves cease to perspire oleaginous sweat,we leave him, although our interest follows until he arrives,via sea voyage, at his fathers on the SchuylkiU in January, ^ The expedition of Bartram to the South is one of the important eventsin botanical history, and his book among the classics of that science. Theedition quoted is the Dublin one of 1793, but it was published in 1791 atPhiladelphia, where his father had established the earliest botanical gardenin the United States, one which has recently been purchased by the publicauthorities on account of its beauty and value. William Bartram died therein 1823. All of his plants have not been certainly identified, but t
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