72 LETTERS FROM FLORIDA.

can not compensate for the suffering which such for-
lorn-looking people must have endured. I feel as if I
was in a vast lazaretto-feeble steps, hectic flushes,
coughs that rack the body and seem to threaten in-
stant death, rheumatism that cripples and distorts. I
tell you I am sick of it all, and shall hurry back and
risk the inclemency of the North, rather than remain
another week."
 "Why, my friend, you are getting excited. Re-


fleet for one m
mistake. Hav
belong here, or
who have settle
 Oh, no ; I
seen only those
or are met with
I think that is


tell you I
 "And
friends an
 "Oh,
West-an


moment, and you will understand your
e you seen much of the people who
of those from the North and West
d here and make Florida their home? "
have made no acquaintances, and have
who board for the winter at the hotels,
in excursions up and down the river.
quite sufficient to judge from, and I


am disappointed and disgusted.


fr
d
fr
d


om what section of the country have these
acquaintances come ? "
om everywhere, I think North, East,


to


the Old Count
 "So, then,
East, and the
have poured
health. It is


my surprise
ry wandering
it seems it
countries fr
ill their sick
not the sick


blind, halt, and maimed fr
land-those half dying in c


a last resort-that


physician to


whom


make
they


I have found many from
about here."
is the North, West, and
om beyond the sea, that
into Florida to seek for
of Florida at all, but the
Dom other portions of *the
,older regions, sent here as
rou so bitter against the


come for relief-often