Water,bird and man

摘要

AT ITS south-east corner,America peters out into something that is neither land nor sea,but a subtropical swamp in between.The Indians who hid in this inaccessible place called it the Pa-hay-Okee,the grassy river."The blowing gray-gold flow of sawgrass in the glittering fresh [glades]," wrote Peter Matthiessen,a naturalist and novelist,"stretched away forever,north and south,to the mysterious dark hammock isles on the horizon."