From William L. Perry, 1859: ÒThe following pages contain a record of the dangerous and exciting, as well as amusing scenes encountered by a party of surveyors in South and East Florida, whilst engaged in the labor of laying out the public domainÉan unvarnished historical account of a tramp of the writer and others in a survey of Government land in South Florida, and some of the many adventures connected with it.
The kind reader, who patiently follows me through, will find recorded many hardships, and dangerous, exciting, as well as amusing scenes, which transpired while we were engaged in that work, and which I trust, may prove of interest to while away an hour of leisure.Ó