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pared — The great earthquakes — The hurricane — The outlaw — Char- 

 acterization of Daniel Boone — Desperate plight on the prairie — 

 Regulator law in action — Frontier necessities — The ax married to 

 the grindstone 273 



CHAPTER XIX 



Audubon and Rafinesque 



The "Eccentric Naturalist" at Henderson — Bats and new species — The 

 demolished violin — "M. de T.": Constantine Samuel Rafinesque 

 (Schmaltz) — His precocity, linguistic acquirements and peripatetic 

 habits — First visit to America and botanical studies — Residence in 

 Sicily, and fortune made in the drug trade — Association with 

 Swainson — Marriage and embitterment — His second journey to 

 America ends in shipwreck — Befriended — Descends Ohio in a flat- 

 boat — Visit with Audubon, who gives him many strange "new 

 species" — Cost to zoology — His unique work on Ohio fishes — Profes- 

 sorship in Transylvania University — Quarrel with its president and 

 trustees — Return to Philadelphia — His ardent love of nature; his 

 writings, and fatal versatility — His singular will — His sad end and 

 the ruthless disposition of his estate 285 



CHAPTER XX 



Audubon's ./Eneid, 1819-1824: Wanderings Through the 



West and South 



Pivotal period in Audubon's career — His spur and balance wheel — 

 Resort to portraiture — Taxidermist in the Western Museum — Set- 

 tles in Cincinnati — History of his relations with Dr. Drake — De- 

 cides to make his avocation his business — Journey down the Ohio 

 and Mississippi with Mason and Cummings — Experiences of travel 

 without a cent of capital— Life in New Orleans— Vanderlyn's rec- 

 ommendation — Original drawings — Chance meeting with Mrs. Pir- 

 rie and engagement as tutor at "Oakley"— Enchantments of West 

 Feliciana— "My lovely Miss Pirrie"— The jealous doctor— Famous 

 drawing of the rattlesnake— Leaves St. Francisville and is adrift 

 again in New Orleans— Obtains pupils in drawing and is joined 

 by his family— Impoverished, moves to Natchez, and Mrs. Audu- 

 bon becomes a governess — Injuries to his drawings — The labors of 

 years destroyed by rats — Teaching in Tennessee — Parting with 

 Mason — First lessons in oils— Mrs. Audubon's school at "Beech- 

 woods"— Painting tour fails— Stricken at Natchez— At the Percys' 

 plantation — Walk to Louisville — Settles at Shippingport . . .301 



