Where one rattlesnake is found, there are generally many more.  Scarcely two minutes had passed ere another made its appearance, crawling out of a hole under a tree.  While Mike and Reuben went to attack it, Uncle Mark advised that we should all get on board without delay.  Our breakfast and cooking things were quickly packed up; and the second rattlesnake being destroyed, Mike and Reuben followed us into the canoe. Scarcely had we shoved off when three or four more rattlesnakes were seen, and we felt thankful that none of us had been bitten by them.  We had literally encamped in the midst of a colony of the venomous reptiles.