sentences:  Unpaved streets of thick sand made travel difficult, especially by wagon.There were no sidewalks or streetlights, and nighttime travelers often carried a lantern to find their way and a gun for protection from alligators, bears, panthers, or other wildlife that often wandered into town from the surrounding swamps, forests, and scrubland.As an early resident observed, "What we found when we arrived was a stinking hole with swamps and pestilence everywhere."