158 FLORIDA.

the "niggers," and made it difficult to keep that class of
labor; for the "crackers" were vicious and ignorant, and


law was prac
In 1871 the
colonization s
and at his so
dred of these
each a homest


tically
Genera
system,
le expe
people,
ead of


an unknown and repudiated
1 decided to try foreign lab
sent an agent to Upsala, in
nse brought over a colony of
for whom he erected cabins,
five acres of good land. This


very well for a time, but there were restless
members in the party, and one day, incited
politicians, some of them deserted and went
wages at Jacksonville. By great efforts, th
General succeeded in inducing them to return


quantity.
or on the
Sweden,
one hun-
giving to
answered
turbulent


by up-country
to seek higher
e agent of the
to their homes


and vocations, and


to-day, after


serve


n years, they are


among the thriftiest, happiest, and most prosperous people
in all Florida. It is an incident worthy of mention, perhaps,
that one of them a short time ago sold his little property for
five thousand five hundred dollars, for the purpose of enter-
ing another line of business. Yet he had less than nothing
(for he owed for his passage) when he arrived in Sanford
seven years since, and was one of the leading opponents of
the General's scheme for their benefit. Recently the Gen-
eral has brought over more Swedes, and also some Poles
and Italians. All are busily at work, and apparently con-
tented.
 The population of Sanford and the closely adjacent
country is now about one thousand, and the healthiness of
the region is sufficiently demonstrated by the fact that the
number of deaths in 1880 wasfive, of which two were from
accidental causes.
 Hunting and fishing are excellent all through this region.
One day in February of the present year, Mr. Knowlton, a
guest at the hotel, went out fishing on Lake Monroe, and in
the afternoon caught one hundred and forty pounds of fine
black bass, the most delicious of eating. It excited no par-