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excellent qualities," who received him most kindly. Au- 

 dubon called promptly upon Benjamin Bakewell, for 

 whom he was the bearer of a letter from his brother, Wil- 

 liam Bakewell, of "Fatland Ford." Instead of an order 

 for money, Kauman's letter, he said, contained only the 

 advice that its bearer be "arrested and shipped to Can- 

 ton." Perplexed and bewildered beyond endurance, 

 Audubon said that for the first time he felt the call of 

 murder in his blood, and his outraged feelings were not 

 assuaged until his landlady, to whom he had opened his 

 heart, and Mr. Bakewell, had come to his aid. Having 

 secured from this gentleman the necessary funds, he 

 bought a passage in the ship Hope, which was then 

 about to sail direct for Nantes. 



Thanks to an old cash account of William Bakewell, 

 we can follow Audubon's movements at this time fairly 

 closely. This record 16 extends from January 4, 1805, to 

 April 9, 1810, during which time he advanced money to 

 his future son-in-law and received credits due him from 

 various sources. He did the same for the young part- 

 ners when an association in business had been formed 

 between Audubon and Rozier, and acted as their agent 

 or attorney after the sale of their farm and their settle- 

 ment in the West; as will be seen he aided Audubon 

 very substantially later when money was needed at 

 Louisville and for the more ambitious projects at Hen- 

 derson, in which his son was also interested. This par- 

 ticular record shows that he supplied Audubon with 

 small sums of money on January 4 and 12, 1805, just 

 before his departure from "Mill Grove," and that on the 

 eighteenth of the same month he paid his brother, Ben- 

 jamin Bakewell of New York, $150 on the young man's 

 account. This was undoubtedly the passage money 



16 See Appendix I, Document No. 7. 



