These Palmetto Bowers were very convenient shelters, being tight in the hardest Rains; they were about 20 Feet long and 14 Feet wide, and in regular Rows looked very pretty, the Palmetto Leaves lying smooth and handsome, and of a good Colour.

The whole appeared something like a Camp; for the Bowers looked like Tents, only being larger and covered with Palmetto Leaves."* * Moore's "Voyage to Georgia".

Quoted in Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America", vol.V, p.

378.
Their life sounds idyllic, but it will not always be so.

Thunders will arise; serpents be found in Eden.