AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Here one of the hands left us a Poor Sickly Devil 

 who had been acting as Cook, called Luke a Shoe 

 Maker of Cincinnati — 



The Indian Summer that extraordinary Phenomenon 

 of North America, is now in all its Splendor, the Blood 

 Red Raising Sun — and the Constant Smoky atmos- 

 phere, is undoutedly not easily to be accounted for — 

 it has been often supposed that the Indians, firing the 

 Prairies of the West were the Cause, but since We 

 have Left C. the Eastwardly Winds have prevailed 

 without diminishing in any degree the Smoke — it is 

 extremely bad to Most Eyes and particularly so to 

 Mine — 



Cap'' Cummings, M^ Shaw & Joseph took a Long 

 Walk [for] but saw nothing, killed 4 Squirels — one 

 Butcher Bird, and a Swamp Blackbird — Large flocks 

 of them seen travelling Southwest — I shot a Turkey 

 Buzard, Vulture Aura about 1 20 yards off' with a ball — 

 Saw When We Landed at the foot of Diamond Island 

 a fine Snow Goose [but] a Young One — Saw several N. 

 Divers, Some Geese, a few Sand Hill Cranes — & some 

 Ducks — 



Saturday Novemb'^ 4th, 1820 



Landed Last evening opposite the Middle of 

 Diamond Island lately the property of Walter Alves 

 Deceased of Henderson — about 9 o'clock the Wind 

 Rose & Blowed a tremendous Gale which continued 



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