Can u imagine the skeeters and noseeums before the days of DEET and thermacell's?
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Yeah, he describes the skeeters as being pretty fierce. Said he had to pull over and swat them out of his canoe they were so thick, swarming over his legs.
What book are you reading? Sounds like something i would be interested in reading myself
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The Travels of William Bartram
He was a naturalist who traveled from Charleston, SC down the Georgia Coast and up the St. Johns River in Florida before making his way back up through Georgia to the mountains of western North Carolina from 1773-1778.
He accompanied his father John Bartram (also a well noted naturalist) on an earlier Florida expedition shortly after the British took over back in the 1760's but to me that account isn't as entertaining a read. I really like the younger Bartram's writing style.
In The Travels of William Bartram he describes in detail the people he comes across including early GA and FL pioneers, Seminoles and Creek indians, and the traders who lived and worked in the interior of the country. Also he details the wildlfie and plants as only a trained naturalist can do...LOL. But he takes great pains to keep his accounts believable. He doesn't stretch the truth very much but there are a few times when it's clear he doesn't fully comprehend what he's witnessing....
Overall, it's one of the most important works describing colonial Florida and Georgia and really should be in the library of anyone interested in this time period of our history.
Thanks, I will check my local library. I love reading stuff like that. If you haven't already, you should read "A Land Remembered" by Patrick Smith
