Ingraham Expedition: March 12, Saturday

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Ingraham Expedition: March 12, Saturday

Original Source

Encoded texts are derived from three typescript accounts of the 1892 Everglades Exploration Expedition found in the James E. Ingraham Papers and the Chase Collection in the Special and Area Studies Collections Department of the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. Digital reproductions of the typescripts are available at:

Moses, W.R., Record of the Everglade Exploration Expedition

Ingraham, J.E., Diary

Church, A., A Dash Through the Everglades

Contents

Electronic Publication Details:

Text encoding by John R. Nemmers

Published by John R. Nemmers.

George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

2015

Licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.

These manuscripts are available from this site for education purposes only.

Encoding Principles

The three accounts of the 1892 Ingraham Everglades Exploration Expedition have been transcribed and are represented in Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) P5 XML encoding.

Line and page breaks have not been preserved in the encoded manuscripts.

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[There is no entry for this date.] We left the dock at Port Tampa 11 P.M. the 12th [of] March, 1892, on board the Steamship "Tarpon", bound for Ft. Myers, which was the nearest town to the point on the edge of the Everglades from which we were determined to cross it.
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[There is no entry for this date.] We left the dock at Port Tampa 11 P.M. the 12th [of] March, 1892, on board the Steamship "Tarpon", bound for Ft. Myers, which was the nearest town to the point on the edge of the Everglades from which we were determined to cross it.
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[There is no entry for this date.] We left the dock at Port Tampa 11 P.M. the 12th [of] March, 1892, on board the Steamship "Tarpon", bound for Ft. Myers, which was the nearest town to the point on the edge of the Everglades from which we were determined to cross it.