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return of the comparative lists of casualties.
British Poa£ Eurled on East Bank o£ Pearl River
After the bloody battle the English buried their dead on the east bank of Pearl River, where one sees the live-oak sheltered mounds to the right of the railroad track going northward. The old natives say that they have another cemetery behind the breastworks on Pearl River at Jackson's Landing, near the couth of Mulatto Eayou.
During recent years mouldy skulls and rusty musket barrels have teen brought, by native fishers and hunters, to the club-houses of the Lookout, as grim relics of our last war with England.
The English then established a lookout in the noted clump of pines, between Pearl river and the Rigolets, to vatch the maneuvers of their distant fleet out in the Gulf, and to get warning of any approach of another American flotilla iron Lake Pontchartrain.
English Lookout in 1886
English Lookout at the present day tears the appearance of quite a little village, with a comfortable railway station, an express end telegraph office, one or two refreshment houses and saloons, sc-veral clut-houses, an extensive custom-house building, with the cross-tarred ensign floating from its flagstaff, and the Pearl River mail steamer lying at its wharf.
The celebrity of the place, however, rests upon its fnrce as a fishing nnd hunting resort. More on the former, as Lake Catherine, with Its shooting boxes, Is nearer the most frequented duck ponds and feeding grounds.
Mysterious Ehell Vounds
The rcouth of the Peari Into the Gulf of Kexico, or core directly, yisFissippi T.ound, is surrounded by the sea marsh. Nsrt the Louisville Sc Xaahville Railroad crossing, and higher up at the confluence of vulstto Bayou, hugs shell mounds, covered with live-oak groves and forests, rise above the marshes.
Seventy odd years ago they were used as cemeteries by the English and American? for the interrrent of slain soldiers and sailors.
(M, James Stevens)