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A VISIT TO ST. AUGUSTINE.‘
BY wnxrex BURTON.
Toward the close of a bright day in
May, 1877, a party of live gentlemen, in-
cluding the writer, arrived at the depot
j ust outside the ancient
city of St. Augustine,
Florida. A noisy
th ton g of haekmen
surrounded us, as we
alighterl from the mi-
niature cars which hml
brought us ever the
narrow gauge rail '
from Toeei, on the St.
Johns River.
Quickly selentiiu
COHV'8yl1lll5(‘,5, “'0 “'(‘l‘1'
driven across an em
stone i) rid go whiuh
spans the St. S'ehastiaIi
River, to a hotel front-
ing rm rune uf the nar-
wger were we In son, the quaint
1, that not ewvi the lvl:nul'
monts el':m expm-imn'e<l iim-keeper sul-
tinenl to detain us longer th:m was neces-
sary to llupnsit our 1221;,-‘wage in the elliee.
La:n'ing “mine he-4t" to work out a
problem, the knewn terms wlierenf
were a number of tx‘:IVUlil)g lyag.-;s, um-
brellas anrl sli:1n'l-straps, :mIl the re-
quired qnantit , the nmnher ml‘ r,rne<Ix‘
belonging with saiil llll[K'llllIl(‘IIlN', and
the amnnntef preparatinn nor-r-s V10
Sllppl)‘ them with fnml aml lmlgin;-, we
sallienl forth to make an exnluratirm.
llavin-.5 no guide m'gl1l(lu-Ivuuk, we at
first llnundered aimlesslyalmut like a
ship without a rudder, until, seeing the
sea-wall, and having a vague reeullv<-
tion that we hall heanl it [M1 to sunm uln-
jeet of especial interest, we all niulmtuxl
upon it and lll:Il'CllG(i nnrtlnwml.
In advanee walked a runllly-faced,
portly gentleman, whose jovial (lis‘1msi-
tinn had won for him the suulvrizlnot of
the Jolly Ca pta in ;
next came two ta 1 l,
lean gentlmnen, l [usel-
tine and I’ l a n e r by
naIne,wlmsn vmuhinml
brozulth h ysuiiiieml
to cover their lile leani-
er, while the w r itv r
and a modest young
gentleman from Indi-
ana,wlmwus known in
us hy no other name
than that ml" his native
State, brnu-,:ht up the
We cuntinnerl to ad-
vance until we arrived
rigllt under the walls nf Fort Marion.
Entering thisaneient castle Ivy a hrnml
1,;at(nvay, we were ounl'ronto(l by an In-
snin mu inar x--:‘ it; .1.-m lilinxlmn, lll lht'lHllu'
% PHILADELPHIA,
l
‘(lian senlinr-l pzwimz his runncl within
the 4-Hurt. 'l‘ln- snli-iiln<Ie1>.IIw grave
eountenxnice, and tin: l-rm-1 zunl digni-
‘am cax'ri2r,;u ml‘ the pawl l l<nepiur.;
‘ watch and ward on this‘ lllNlHl‘l1".'l'iYilllli.
struck us-as being singularly ..,.pl-ulu-lulu
to scenes made inonmrahlu nytlm hlmuly
tragedies of an hr‘,r<nn: and lmrlmrnn<l
past. ‘
nu. m n H;ur- ul 1, uum l-u (Ill
. Nnmm (‘till vnln-rtliiv :cIIr'i4‘I1l i"""'l
wmwm mini,,,,M.,,1in-.y,.lawn-i,iimnx
ul'Ilie1rl.n:u. Thu UVi1l('l]l‘<‘.N' nl':II1lii[ulH
MARCH 25, 1882.
all mm-ry hanul, ihu, prison-like ggrilnmrss
Hflllf‘ inn-riur 2 1:! the prufuun-l silvnru-,
x'l'llllillI Hr nu-xvi In-ul;vn, awaken R1"llR.'l-
nunwr.11-.-p..tl;.w.=.
l'nnlur1ln< in llL‘II1‘Ii.<7lll‘ ]xnrtyl1allml
upon Ihv thx <hnlil.
anul rt-III1IllH‘1ll1IrsUInl'
munn'nl< in >il(-nee, or
mm in-hi wliiipx-rml
i. ix--mr -in u in, -: .xllilN‘iINlZ nu:
wnmmlnivm with urn‘ :un>lh(‘r. The sull-
l:u' x l("lIlll‘ zuznr-I I-nnliluu-<1 hi< llII‘:l>-
H: in immmu av Cnngyu.-. Ml ii ll-mnmu, n 1-;
liiiiiliillill
‘?l‘iiLlill livli
“' .'(.'.l‘ (‘G 13"" N0. l6.
[H‘x'.<Pll(‘(‘. lie S(‘I’lII0d a noble sper‘im(‘n
ml‘ hurnler warrior. Tlmugh lift)’ ears or
a-,;e, his‘ form llllll lost none of the
NlrL‘llL'l1]:IlHlYlg:7T of youth. llis frame
“as largv and musvular. hm spare of
Ilesh, an 01 his
&)'(‘S,“.'hi(‘lI were
dark and fierce,
burned beneath
a low hrow,
K10 w n w h i c h
straxizgled the
en. .ohla<'klI:1ir
nf his race. llv
Wu re the uni-
form of n Fniluti
Slates .<uIIH4‘l‘.
and (:u'ri<‘<l n
nmskol wilh tix-
mi lv:I vnm‘l.
Allur naming
in ' and forth
lwlhre us save-
ral (inn-x. Iho lmlinn at lvn-.:lh halted,
anul puixllvnl :1 lluskythngcr mwanl an
urml m:u'ch mzunl ('1'-r,umniInltI1l nfnnr l :nn‘i<-nl <l:Iir“:1y.,