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G: ...Well, we were standing there swatting. And then John Goggin took us one day down onto

 Key Largo in September to show us the rock mound which is, I say, supposed to be there because

 I never saw it that day. (Laugther) We got back in the hammock and it was terrible. I

 had been out of state for a few years and I guess my tolerance had been, disappeared. I

 got back out to the road when we finally just gave up ah back in the woods and I thought for

 a moment that I had brushed into a tri-bspie.'ae_ because immediately my whole face began

 to swell up and just from the mosquito bites. Up on the Tomoka River, ah north of Daytona

 we were doing a dig at Nocaroko, one of them that we later published and an acquaitance

 that Hale and I had ah from Chicago, name Lou Rawlston, decided to visit us. Well, Lou

 was a kind of a fellow that ah he would kind of tolerated and felt sorry for, but still

 did not want to have around too much, so he wanted to come out in the field with us and

 we went out to the site and he was driving a Dodge Power Wagon and he was on his way to

 New Mexico and of course Florida is the logical half way point between Chicago and New

 Mexico, so we got out to the site and the weather, the insect weather had just turned

 terrible. It was hot, it was sticky and the bugs were just awful and Lou, I will always

 remember Lou, big tall guy and he rolled his pants up and he was wearing black nylon, or

 silk gentleman's stockings and he stood out in the Tomoka River in his stocking feet and

 he sprayed himself with DDT and we dug and we swatted and we dug and we swatted and we dug.

 About after and hour and a half, we or so, Lou had been asking about it and we had been

 saying, "Gee, it is not a bad day today is it?" you know. And he was saying "Is it alwasy

 like this?". "Oh, no, this is a good day.' It is usually much worse than this." Ah, about

 mid-morning Lou decided New Mexico was a far better place to be than Florida and off he

 took and as soon as he disappeared out of site in that Dodge Power Wagon, I said, "Let's get

 the hell out of here." (Laughter) We started working on historic sites real early, sort

 of by accident. We ah moved our headquarters down to Highland County State Park and

 got to meet a man named Mr. Goodnough down there who had a mound on his property that

 people had been diggin beads out of and things like that. So, we decided we wanted to take

 a look at that. For one thing, it was a burial mound and there is still a little bit of

 feeling that burial mounds should exist clear up to the historic period although we did have

 the LaMoyne drawing and a few things like that. So, we wanted to dig there for that purpose.