CHAPTER XV.....224

Longevity in St. Augustine--Manufacture of orange marmalade and wine--"El Pavo Real"--Genovar & Brother, wine-makers--Visitors leaving--A page from unwritten history--Tolling the bells for the pope--Grand illumination by the Yacht Club--The _ignes-fatui_ boats--String-band and dancing--Capricious weather a comfort to growlers--A change to balmy air and waving palms--The Indians leave--They have no use for Government clothes on the plains--Mrs. Black Horse and Mochi dressed in hats and plumes--The Indians leave their Moody & Sankey song-books--A picture written letter from the squaw of Minimic--These Indians differ from novel-writer characters--The strain of civilization during their stay being too great they mutiny, headed by White Horse--A squad of soldiers from the barracks search and iron four of them--Fort closed to visitors--They pine for home, the aristocracy of their nature scorning restraint--Money made by polishing sea-beans, etc.--Description of St. Anastasia Island--Ponies feeding on marsh-grass--Attack of General Oglethorpe in 1740--The old light-house built by the Spanish, and used as a fortress--Fresh water in mid-ocean caused from lime-sinks--Treaty of Fort Moultrie--Origin of the Seminoies.