Ingraham Expedition: March 17, Thursday

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Ingraham Expedition: March 17, Thursday

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

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Text encoding by John R. Nemmers

Published by John R. Nemmers.

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

2015

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

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CAMP NO. 2. Thursday, March 17th.

Mr. Ingraham brought in a fox squirrel and Mr. Shepard a whooping Crane.

At noon we had made about 10 miles when we stopped for dinner, being about 25 miles from Myers.

Started at 3 P.M. and rode and marched until about 6 P.M., making about 8 miles when we went into Camp No. 3.

The timber this morning was of much better character, thicker together and larger sized, than yesterday, there being quite a good deal of cross-tie timber. In the afternoon we were crossing the Allen Prairie, a fine body of land some 25 miles long by 3 to 6 miles wide lying between the Okaloacoochee Swamp and The Big Cypress from a point 2 miles east of place known as "Carson's." It is a plateau diversified by pine islands, hammock islands and prairie with abundance of water and seemingly of a character to afford thoroughly good pasturage with attention, for the raising of stock in large quantities, improved breeds, etc. Para grass planted in spots and protected from cattle until it got a start would undoubtedly take possession and make fine pasture.

Our camp is located at the forks of the roads running to Fort Simon Drum and Camp Rogers. A government road also runs from our camp to Fort Simons on the Caloosahatchee River.
March 17th. Broke camp 6 A.M. Marched 22 miles through open scrub pine country. Cypress ponds and grass ponds. Poor tie timber; country flat and dry. Went in Camp #3 at 5 P.M., about 2 miles north of Ft. Simon Drum. Next Morning Mr. Ingraham, Mr. Sydney and George and Frank Hendry had breakfast at daybreak and went off on a hunt, leaving us to follow with the wagons when we got them loaded up. That day George Hendry killed two deer which gave us plenty of fresh meat, but the hunt had completely used up the hunters. I had been driving one of the wagons that morning but gave my place to one of the tired hunters in the afternoon; I could not wear my shoes and could not go barefoot, so I put on my two pair extra socks and found that I could walk with tolerable ease.

So far we had been passing through the usual Florida pine land, but from this on the country was more open, and was dotted everywhere with grass ponds so that we had a great deal of wading to do. That night we camped in a very poor place, for we had to go a long ways for water and could hardly find enough dry wood to cook with.
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CAMP NO. 2. Thursday, March 17th.

Mr. Ingraham brought in a fox squirrel and Mr. Shepard a whooping Crane.

At noon we had made about 10 miles when we stopped for dinner, being about 25 miles from Myers.

Started at 3 P.M. and rode and marched until about 6 P.M., making about 8 miles when we went into Camp No. 3.

The timber this morning was of much better character, thicker together and larger sized, than yesterday, there being quite a good deal of cross-tie timber. In the afternoon we were crossing the Allen Prairie, a fine body of land some 25 miles long by 3 to 6 miles wide lying between the Okaloacoochee Swamp and The Big Cypress from a point 2 miles east of place known as "Carson's." It is a plateau diversified by pine islands, hammock islands and prairie with abundance of water and seemingly of a character to afford thoroughly good pasturage with attention, for the raising of stock in large quantities, improved breeds, etc. Para grass planted in spots and protected from cattle until it got a start would undoubtedly take possession and make fine pasture.

Our camp is located at the forks of the roads running to Fort Simon Drum and Camp Rogers. A government road also runs from our camp to Fort Simons on the Caloosahatchee River.
March 17th. Broke camp 6 A.M. Marched 22 miles through open scrub pine country. Cypress ponds and grass ponds. Poor tie timber; country flat and dry. Went in Camp #3 at 5 P.M., about 2 miles north of Ft. Simon Drum. Next Morning Mr. Ingraham, Mr. Sydney and George and Frank Hendry had breakfast at daybreak and went off on a hunt, leaving us to follow with the wagons when we got them loaded up. That day George Hendry killed two deer which gave us plenty of fresh meat, but the hunt had completely used up the hunters. I had been driving one of the wagons that morning but gave my place to one of the tired hunters in the afternoon; I could not wear my shoes and could not go barefoot, so I put on my two pair extra socks and found that I could walk with tolerable ease.

So far we had been passing through the usual Florida pine land, but from this on the country was more open, and was dotted everywhere with grass ponds so that we had a great deal of wading to do. That night we camped in a very poor place, for we had to go a long ways for water and could hardly find enough dry wood to cook with.
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CAMP NO. 2. Thursday, March 17th.

Mr. Ingraham brought in a fox squirrel and Mr. Shepard a whooping Crane.

At noon we had made about 10 miles when we stopped for dinner, being about 25 miles from Myers.

Started at 3 P.M. and rode and marched until about 6 P.M., making about 8 miles when we went into Camp No. 3.

The timber this morning was of much better character, thicker together and larger sized, than yesterday, there being quite a good deal of cross-tie timber. In the afternoon we were crossing the Allen Prairie, a fine body of land some 25 miles long by 3 to 6 miles wide lying between the Okaloacoochee Swamp and The Big Cypress from a point 2 miles east of place known as "Carson's." It is a plateau diversified by pine islands, hammock islands and prairie with abundance of water and seemingly of a character to afford thoroughly good pasturage with attention, for the raising of stock in large quantities, improved breeds, etc. Para grass planted in spots and protected from cattle until it got a start would undoubtedly take possession and make fine pasture.

Our camp is located at the forks of the roads running to Fort Simon Drum and Camp Rogers. A government road also runs from our camp to Fort Simons on the Caloosahatchee River.
March 17th. Broke camp 6 A.M. Marched 22 miles through open scrub pine country. Cypress ponds and grass ponds. Poor tie timber; country flat and dry. Went in Camp #3 at 5 P.M., about 2 miles north of Ft. Simon Drum. Next Morning Mr. Ingraham, Mr. Sydney and George and Frank Hendry had breakfast at daybreak and went off on a hunt, leaving us to follow with the wagons when we got them loaded up. That day George Hendry killed two deer which gave us plenty of fresh meat, but the hunt had completely used up the hunters. I had been driving one of the wagons that morning but gave my place to one of the tired hunters in the afternoon; I could not wear my shoes and could not go barefoot, so I put on my two pair extra socks and found that I could walk with tolerable ease.

So far we had been passing through the usual Florida pine land, but from this on the country was more open, and was dotted everywhere with grass ponds so that we had a great deal of wading to do. That night we camped in a very poor place, for we had to go a long ways for water and could hardly find enough dry wood to cook with.