more and settled along the
river since the boys are
hear and last night tewo more
was hear that are looking for
land to make homes. The boys
have a nice place, and it can be made
a very nice place. It is a high
point of land running in to
the river [?] of north and
south, and is a nice [Palm?]
grove. They have a [farm?] Lemon
Orange Limes Citron Bananas and
soon, other kind of trees
growing. The [?] apples look
well and are very good, I
have more than I can eate. A
man sent a bunch of bananas
to me that had [?] [two?] [?]
thin [shaf?] is close to the water so
as to launch this [?]. They
are very busy making sail
boats for a man from Baltimore.
He is coming to spend the
winter at Lake North. The river
hear is a mile wide. [?] 21[?] last night
a strong north west wind came
up and has ben blowing
quite hard all day. The river looks
quite angry and it is quite
cool so we shut the doors and
windows. No I havent see any
alligators yet but have heard
them growl a good ways of
the boys said it was two or
three miles of. It sounded like
distant thunder, but I did see
a bear. The boys and myself
sailed to the beach [with?] twelve
miles this place, [there?] was some
Indian. They was after the bear
and [?] while we was there.
Oh it was a grand sight for
me to see the [?] for the
for the first time in my life
[written upside-down:]
The boys send regards to all.
Tuesday [?] all well had venison for breakfast very nice Willis is
going to the Office [three?] [?]
Love to all Mother B
