. The standard guide . butyear by year its religious importance increased; and ever, with the expansion of his work, the Francis-cans zeal grew more intense and his labors more devoted. The country was in time erected into areligious province, with a chapter houseof the Order of San Francisco at San Augustin; and thence themembers went forth to plant the standard of their faith in the remotest wilderness. Yar out on theborder of savanna, in the depth of forest, and on the banks of river and lake, by the side of the Indiantrails westward to the Gulf, north among the villages of Alachua, and sou
. The standard guide . butyear by year its religious importance increased; and ever, with the expansion of his work, the Francis-cans zeal grew more intense and his labors more devoted. The country was in time erected into areligious province, with a chapter houseof the Order of San Francisco at San Augustin; and thence themembers went forth to plant the standard of their faith in the remotest wilderness. Yar out on theborder of savanna, in the depth of forest, and on the banks of river and lake, by the side of the Indiantrails westward to the Gulf, north among the villages of Alachua, and south to everglade fastnesses;here and there, and everywhere that lost souls were worshipping strange gods, the Franciscan built his•chapel, intrenched it round about with earthwork and palisade, and gathered the erring children of theiforcst to hear the wondrous story of the Cross. — OM SL Augitstiiw, The Franciscans. K short distance south of the Barracks is the Military Cemetery. An admission The Standard Guide. 55. BRITISH ST. Sea Wall extending to The Parade, and Convent on present barracks site, pass is required and may be had on application to the adjutant of the post, whoseol^ce is opposite the Barracks. In the cemetery are the three low pyramids ofmasonry forming the tombs of officers and men who lost their lives in the SeminoleWar. The memorial shaft is commonly spoken of as Dades Monument, becausemore than one hundred of the soldiers interred here were those who perished in the Dade Massacre. This was one of the most tragic incidents of the Seminole War. In August, 1835, Major Dade and a command of troops, no all told, were on their way from FortBrooke to Fort King. At half past nine oclock, Tuesday morning, August 28, they were marchingthrough an open pine barren, four miles from the Great Wahoo Swamp. The bright sun was shining;flowers bloomed along the path; gay butterflies flitted about them; the silence was broken only by melody of
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