The Calusa were a tribe of American natives who occupied their home in the coastal fringes of Southwest Florida for thousands of years. They were very different from the other tribes of Florida - taller, more intelligent, and with Caucasian facial features. Their home was so rich in resources that hunting and gathering was never a primary concern. They developed a formal system of royalty and priesthood, engaged in the arts, and had sophisticated music. Their military was remarkedly like a modern military. They built hundreds of miles of navigation canals, many of which are in existence today. At their royal compound, they constructed a meeting hall capable of seating 2000 - no small task without modern metal. They were fierce and resourceful warriors, and during the two hundred years they coexisted in Florida with the Spanish, they never lost a significant military engagement. Their Achilles heel was their lack of any resistance to the diseases of the Old World. They eventually lost that struggle, and now their genes are no longer a part of our planet. "Tears of the Gumbo Limbo" is set in two time-periods of a few months each, one in 1513 at first encounter and in 1710 when the last Calusan sat in an old Gumbo Limbo on Mahogany Island. It is a story of the beauty and the brutality of nature, a story of the magnificence of our system of evolution and its uncompromising rules. But mostly it's just a love story.

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