Miami, A Backward Glance/ The Seminoles

Ever-Ever Land
The Seminoles

"The men of the village served as knowledgeable guides to hunters and fishermen. They ventured confidently into the heart of the Everglades in their flat-bottom boats, poling through thick swamp grasses in water that was sometimes barely inches deep. No landmarks that the untrained eye could discern marked that level and shimmering world, only a few sparsely scattered hummocks where birds or small deer might rest. It was a strange water land, but one in which the Seminole could survive. A foray into that endless terrain, where one could easily be lost for days without expert direction, was rewarded, inevitably, by the sight of the shifting beauty, that mixture of solid and liquid, and the tropical bird and animal life found nowhere else in the United States."