The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-04-16
A HUNTING TRIP I'M THE
FLORIDA EVERGLADES
A. D. Gilley, Formerly Of Barre, De.
scribes Such a Trip Made BY
Him During the Past
Winter

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1905 with my wife in Daytona, Fla,
and after about two months Of the same
daily routine began TO get uneasy and
anxious for something in the way Of
novelty.
Being interested III farm located on
the south fork OF the New River near
Fort Lauderdaie, Fla, on the edge Of
the Everglades, and having been advised
by our manager that there was excel
lent hunting and fishing there, J. Invited
a friend, Charles Il Powers Of Grand
Rapids, Mich, to accompany me. so
Tor several days prior to our departure
We were engaged in collecting the neccs-
sary paraphernalia for such trip and
on Sunday, March 18th. we took the
morning train from Daytona and went
to Palm Beach, where we stopped over
4 train, then took the evening train
for Fort Lauderdale, arriving there att
about 1880 that night
was awakened the next morning
about six o'clock by Powers shaking
me and asking me. to come to the win
dow, as he had something to show me.
On looking out there was Seminole
Indian with his family Of sq,law and
two pickaninies, their costumes being
most striking. The woman had on
loose skirt Of cheap cotton material and
4 loose cape Of the same material over
the shoulders The man wore print
shirt reaching nearly to his knees, legs
and feet being bare. The children were
dressed, OF rather uafressed, in much
the same way. They were at the sta
ton waiting to see the early morning
train come in.
! said to Powers; Let us dress as
quickly as possible and 20 over and
see ii he won't take us on hunting
trip into the Everglades.
The idea seemed to take him favor
ably, 80 we hurried into our clothes and
went out. We were not long in locat-
ing the Indian and when we had made
known our wishes We couldn't get any.
thing more from him than rather neg.
ative shake of the head. Later in the
forenoon, while he was in the general
store making some purchases. We got
one of the clerks to interpret for US;
at first he was very reluctant, but when
VIC displayed SIS liil be asked BY
signs when we wanted to 10 and for
how long. Then pointing 10 the SUM
in the east, where it wonld be about
two hours high and then in. the west 10
about two hours before sunset and say.
ing sun here. sun there" the clerk
finally got his consent to come for us
the next day at between eight and
nine o'clock
we congratulated ourselves on our
success, but later IN the DAY we We're
told BY the native. that y was ex-
tremeiy doubtful u ne came Tor Us,
as they We're suspicious 81 the white
people and had very little 70 do with
them, a. during the Seminole war vs.
ceola, their chief, was captured by the
whites BY the violation Of the laws
OF nag OF truce.
The next morning We had about given
up seeing our Indian and were making
arrangements with man VINO was both
a hunting and fishing guide TO take US
on Trip when We looked down the
river and saw the Indian leisureiy pad
ding IN ms long canoc. tie came 70
orr landing and with loyons aanticipa-
mons we loaded our guns, fishing tao
kle and lunches and started on our trip
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In order that the privilege We were
about to ENJOY may be fully understood,
want To make little aggression. by
the white men comparatively little IS
known OF the Eyerglsdes, many cxpedi-
tons IN the way OF research have been
made but these have always been az.
tended ~ nardships and failure. and
while The Indians themselves are famll-
lar with all the waterways and canals,
yet they will not guide these eNpedi-
tons. 4
At the present time there are about
1000 Seminoies and they live IN small
shacks, all open at the sides and rooted
over by palmetto leaves. They i've
on small islands in and the land ada
cent TO the Esereiaaes. They are with
out ambition ana INCIDENT 70 the land
degree, getting their LIVING mostly by
hunting and fishing. WA
Fort Lauderdale is an soid Indian trad
ing post and ! was told that they
often brought IN the skins Of the otter
and alligators TO the amount Of sew
.eral hundred dollars at a time and eN-
changed at the stores for provisions,
then, after buying all the whiskey they
could Wv thei hahus "h, thr! Moun
loaf about the town for several days
and have a regular spree, then 80 back
into the Everglades and remain there as
long as their provisions held out.
On leaving our farm and starting mp
the river we hadn't gone far when we
started two water turkeys. Powers, who
was sitting in the stern of the boat,
brought his gun to bis shoulder and