What to see in America . until about a month later. At the time of the Civil War a Union army acting inconjunction with a powerful fleet under Admiral Farragutcaptured New Orleans in April, 1862. The task of governingthe city was turned over toGen. Benjamin F. Butler,whom the people consideredso unpardonably brutal in hismethods that they called himBeast Butler. The whole of the southeastcoast of Louisiana up to thevery city is a network ofbayous, lakes, and lagoons,threading vast desolate wastesof salt marsh, jungle, and for-ests of cypress and water-oak. The region is still thehaunt of wild
What to see in America . until about a month later. At the time of the Civil War a Union army acting inconjunction with a powerful fleet under Admiral Farragutcaptured New Orleans in April, 1862. The task of governingthe city was turned over toGen. Benjamin F. Butler,whom the people consideredso unpardonably brutal in hismethods that they called himBeast Butler. The whole of the southeastcoast of Louisiana up to thevery city is a network ofbayous, lakes, and lagoons,threading vast desolate wastesof salt marsh, jungle, and for-ests of cypress and water-oak. The region is still thehaunt of wild things, untrav-ersed for the most part saveby the pirogue of the pot-hunter or the negro mossgatherer. Turtles, snakes,and alligators abound, andkingfishers, and pelicans hold a monopoly of the densest, most intricately water-threaded district ofall is that lying around Barataria Bay. Through thisbay and its tributary bayous the luggers of the Malay,Italian, and mongrel fishermen pass up to New Orleans. At. Dragging an Alligator fromIt8 Hole herons, cranes, flamingoes. 294 What to See in America the entrance to the bay is Grand Isle, a former haunt ofpirates whose most noted leaders were Pierre and JeanLafitte, at one time distinguished citizens of New expedition broke up their establishment here in 1714,and a strong pirate force went down the coast fifty milesand fortified itself on Last Island. The Lafittes established themselves at Galves-
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