Jack sailed up through the Gulf Of Mexico and then through Boca Grande Pass his little skiff rocked violently on the waves. With the strong winds and rough curent it only took a few hours to sight the Pearl anchored in the shallows of Charlott Harbor. Taking out his spyglass he noted that the deck was vacant so he hualed his skiff up the beach and hid it in the mangrove thicket. He stayed in the skiff that night for he didn't konw what kind of native animals romed in this land at night nor did he sleep that night this land was; hot, muggy, small inoying blood thursty insects buzzed in his ears, he heard the howls of a lone red wolf, the blood curtiling screams of a panther and then snarels of black bears. Finaly dawn broke and he lit the heck out of the thicket. He quickly found the crews trail and followed it to a clearing where he saw Barbossa split the crew up and send them down differend trails.

'Wha' is 'e doin'.' Jack wondered but then he shrugged off the thought 'Well h' is back's to me might as well.' He decided as he snuck foreward drawing his pistol and trainging it on the scull of his thrice mutinous ex-first mate. Barbossa then heard the hammer cock.

"I see I was right, lad." He observed snaching up his pistol and training it on Jack.

Just as the two were about to pull the triger on each other they heard strange sounds coming from the woods around them. First they heard the crack of what seamed like guns, then they heard brawls snarels growls and barks od dogs. Then finally the bawl of cattle and the sucking sound of somthing sloshing through the mucky marshy ground of southwest Florida. Afew moments of this weiredness a lone cow-calf pair fought their way through the underbrush and into the clearing of the prarie. The with each bit of noise another pair or lone cow would stumble out calmly untill hundreds of scrawny longhorned scrub cattle stood around Jack and Barbossa, who both ran for the cover of a clunp of palmettos. Each of the cows had a calf and the bulls bowed their heads at each other and pushed their sharphorned sculls against each other. Then there was a sharp double whistle and out of the brush from where the cows had emerged came a dozen muck caked dogs. They tore out of the woods as fast as the could run the smaller ones ran in first and circled the cows as the bigger slower, yet not by much, came in and jumped on a bull, who was trying to make a break for the stand of pine trees, each of the dogs jumped up aroun his head acasonaly biting his nose and ears untill they got him turned but by that time his nose was bloody and his left ear had new battle scares. Then out of the same stand of woods came a grout of men all had dark skin and rode a small horse bareback with a rope hackamore excapt the one who led the group he had olive skin and he looked very european with his coton clothing and wide brim straw hat that was pulled down over his face. The group walked their swathand mud caked horses to where the dogs keep circling the bloody nosed cattle the young boy gave a nother sharp whistle and the dogs backed away growling at the cows and then troted over to where the boy sat on his horse. Then a large black wolf looking dog began to sniff at the groun where the two pirates were standing moments before. he followed a trail to where Jack and Barbossa were hiding in the palmettos and then let out a long drawn out brawl. The boy then instinctevly turned his horse skillfully, grabbing a branch from a small cabbage palm tosed it into the clump of palmettos and out came Jack and Barbossa. They looked at the boy who eyed them from under his hat then he took off the hat reaviling.........

TO BE CONTINUED


this is a story of the search for the Foutain Of Youth it has real florida history the spanish the calusas and the simonal cowmen please dont take offince to any of this in just telling it how it was im a real floriad cracker trying to protect my family background so thank you for understanding and yes we do use dogs just like the ones i will and did decride but the wolf dogs are gone and no more they do cach the cows by the nose and ears but the nose is where you want them to catch and i have seen cows gat their noses bloodyed by the dogs

so please read and review thanks ;)