The workman enlisted for Florida could, once the work finished, depend upon a capital placed in his name in the bank of Baltimore.
Murchison had therefore only to pick and choose, and could be severe about the intelligence and skill of his workmen.

He enrolled in his working legion the pick of mechanics, stokers, iron-founders, lime-burners, miners, brickmakers, and artisans of every sort, white or black without distinction of colour.

Many of them brought their families with them.

It was quite an emigration.
On the 31st of October, at 10 a.m., this troop landed on the quays of Tampa Town.

The movement and activity which reigned in the little town that had thus doubled its population in a single day may be imagined.