. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . <u u nuua CO-I-* *s ci. C/5 a o THE EVERGLADES 211 were too heavy to carry, seem like fairy did not Atala, Chateaubriands royal prin-cess, begin her wanderings from the tombs ofher people in the mystic fastnesses of these sameglades? And through the wild buccaneeringtimes were not pirates, with their ships full ofbooty, chased to the rivers that flowed from theEverglades? There they were lost to pursuitand to this day tales of their sunken treasuresin scuttled boats, in these winding streams, aretold. Many islands are the
. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . <u u nuua CO-I-* *s ci. C/5 a o THE EVERGLADES 211 were too heavy to carry, seem like fairy did not Atala, Chateaubriands royal prin-cess, begin her wanderings from the tombs ofher people in the mystic fastnesses of these sameglades? And through the wild buccaneeringtimes were not pirates, with their ships full ofbooty, chased to the rivers that flowed from theEverglades? There they were lost to pursuitand to this day tales of their sunken treasuresin scuttled boats, in these winding streams, aretold. Many islands are the storied burial placesof the loot of gold and silver from forgetful searovers. Even in defiance of the geological unities, asmoking mountain, sacred to the Indians, wasput in the very center of this unexplored regionand there they were supposed to have preservedsome of the traditions of their ancestors lostcivilization. Folklore was imagined for themby enthusiastic writers, and tales of wondrousinterest and mystery — but of little truth —were written, that have only added to th
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