Paddling under Palmettos — page 129: what you’re looking at

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[22 Paddling Under Palmettos. Back of this was a windmill, or wind-engine, for raising water, and beyond a lake, or savannah, that, only a few years back, was full of alligators, although it was extremely doubtful whether one remained at this day. The alligator is extremely well thinned out along all traveled routes in Florida. If you want to see him in all his hideous glory, you must penetrate the swamps or go to the Everglades. There you will find enough of them to make the sight common. By ascending the fresh-water tributaries of the In- dian River in small canoes that only draw a few inches of water, you can still shoot some of these reptiles, but they are fast going in that quarter. The invitation extended to strangers is about like this: “Come and see me, and we'll have a ’gator- hunt in the swamp.” ‘Thousands are slain for their hides alone and the teeth thrown in. Tourists with their guides kill other thousands, so that it is only a question of time as to when they will be so thor- oughly cleaned out that to see one will be the ex- ception and not the rule. Archie walked back to the house. All was so pleasant on shore that it was hard to Gomicbooks co