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Show How Nature Aidt Criminals There are gome views In and about the Everglades whk-h are truly beau-; beau-; tlful, and persons seeing them are apt i to conclude that they have been doing , the country an injustice when they think of It as a terrible place associated asso-ciated with death and destruction. It is a fact that the Everglades afford a natural hiding place for criminals, and It has served' In this capacity ever since they were known. Soon after the Revolution It was resorted to by fugitive slaves who found It ! quite possible to live there and to be j absolutely safe from pursuit. Even ! then there were fugitives and xrlml-noln xrlml-noln in the place with a kind of brotherhood broth-erhood of sympathy. Parts of the Everglades consist of dense wildernesses wilder-nesses where there are trails known : only to a few Indians, fewer white men. At other pfaces there are acres 1 of saw grass which grows ten feet high with hard and sharp leaves through which It Is Impossible to I pass. |