Tiffany Keith’s Reviews > Travels of William Bartram > Status Update

A fascinating read so far. “When travelling on the east coast of the isthmus of Florida, ascending the south Musquito river, in a canoe, we observed numbers of deer and bears, near the banks, and on the islands of the river: the bears were feeding on the fruit of the dwarf creeping Chamaerops; we saw eleven bears in the course of the day, they seemed no way surprised or affrighted at the sight of us.”