July 1867 - February 1868, The thousand mile walk from Kentucky to Florida and Cuba Image 31

in their dwellings of leaf and flower. Myriads of the most gorgeous butterflies too, all kinds of happy insects seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. The whole place seems like a centre of life. The dead do not “reign there alone.” It was October (9th) that I first beheld Bonaventure, to me one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the green oceans of Canada and western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin oaks, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana and Kentucky, the dark mysterious Savannah cypress forests, but never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the Tillandsia [Drawing - “Live oak Bonaventure Georgia”]https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1030/thumbnail.jp