Even as they sighted it, it shot in among the trunks of a dense cypress forest, and disappeared.
[1]Before the Seminoles became the powerful tribe into which they finally grew they were a band of outlaws, composed of those who, for some good reason, had fled or been driven from the Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and other tribes of the South .-- K.

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