AUDUBON JOURNAL 



rion Crows attracted by the Scent of the Deer We 

 Caught yesterday 



Our Hands saiHng all day 



Sunday November 26*^ 1820 



Drawed all day, floated 1 8 Miles — the family in the 

 Skiffs came on Board this Morning. Nearly frozen, the 

 Thermometer down at 22 — the ground very hard, and 

 my being without a Shirt — Made Me feel rather 

 unpleasant. 



the Woman of the Skiffs Mending My Good Brown 

 Breeches — 



to Look on those people, and consider cooly their 

 Condition, then; compare it to mine; they certainly 

 are more Miserable to Common Eyes — but, it is all a 

 Mistaken Idea, for poverty & Independance are the 

 only friend that will travel together through this 

 World. 



Shot at an Eagle With a White head and Brown 

 Tail. 



Ducks, Geese, Swans, & other Birds all going south- 

 wardly — 



Monday November 27*^ 1820 



the weather raw and Cloudy. Finished my drawing 

 of the White headed Eagle, having been 4 days at it — 



That Noble Bird weighed 8^"^, Measured 6 feet 

 7/2/12 his Total Length 2:7/2/12 — it proved a Male, 

 the heart extremely large. My Ball having passed 



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