Outing (1885) (14765863955) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: outing53newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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O 3 2 8 :1 °6 O.T3 On to Marco Pass 409 having dropped his old wife and marriedagain. Tommy Osceola was an Indian ofmodern ideas and one of the social aristo-crats of his tribe. According to Seminoleusage he had to leave his old camp and livewith the family of his new squaw. As shewas a widow with six children and Tommyalready had a few of his own, it is doubtfulif he escaped altogether the white mansburden. The camp was the conventionalone of the well-to-do Seminole and con-tained such evidences of enlightenment asa sewing machine, a cane-mill and a devicefor distilling, intended, doubtless, to pro-vide pure water for the family. We kepthouse in Osceolas camp for a day, to givethe camera-man an innings, as he claimedthat the absence of the family affordedunusual opportunities to one of his pro-fession. We visited the fields of cane andcorn that covered the patches of dry landon adjacent keys and utilized Indian imple-ments to pulverize the latter and civilizedmethods to convert it i