AUDUBON JOURNAL 



All our Hands Playing Cards untill bed Tim about 9. 

 oclock = The Swamp Sparrows and Snow Birds are 

 plenty in the High Dry Grass that Lines the Banks of 

 this River, but the Woods have Nothing in More than 

 the Pait Pait Pait of the Monogamous — Wood Peckers — 



Wednesday November 22^^ 1820 



We Left New Madrid at day Break. We had gone 

 but a very Short Distance when The Wind Rose, yet 

 we made as the Best days' run since in this River and 

 Landed after Dark 3 Miles above the Little Prairie on 

 the Missoury Shore — 



Joseph & Myself floated before the Boats almost all 

 day in hunt of a White headed Eagle, in Vain, I shot 

 at & Missed a Beautifull Black Hawk and a Brown 

 Eagle having a very Long Bend to run through. We 

 helped Mr. Lovelac's; While We when rowing, a 

 White headed Eagle Dashed off from the Top of a 

 High Cypress Tree, after a Little Duck the Spirit and 

 was on the point of being in Possession of it — when I 

 sent him Two heavy Loads from My Gun that 

 Wounded him badly — 



I called this Morning at Belle Vue Wood Yard to see 

 M"^ Dela Roderic, he was absent to a Cypress Swamp, 

 I saw his Wife & Sister, and Left my Respects 



the Weather quite Pleasant, although We have 

 Light White frosts every Night — 



Some minutes after Landed, Dash started an op- 



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