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current very strong. Passed Nashville, Marion, and 

 steamer " Lexington " going up. Jefferson City at twelve. 

 Passed the Osage River and saw twenty-four Deer oppo- 

 site Smith Landing; camped at sundown, and found 

 Giraud, the " strong man." Ran sixty-one miles. Met 

 the steamer " Satan," badly steered. Abundance of Geese 

 and Ducks everywhere. 



Tuesday, 17th. Calm and very foggy. Started early 

 and floated a good deal with the strong current. Saw 

 two Deer. The fog cleared off by nine o'clock. Passed 

 the Gasconade River at half-past nine. Landed at Pinck- 

 ney to buy bread, etc. Buffaloes have been seen mired, 

 and unable to defend themselves, and the Wolves actually 

 eating their noses while they struggled, but were event- 

 ually killed by the Wolves. Passed Washington and 

 encamped below it at sundown; a good run. 



Wedjiesday, 18th. Fine and calm; started very early. 

 Passed Mount Pleasant. Landed at St. Charles to pur- 

 chase bread, etc. Provost became extremely drunk, and 

 went off by land to St. Louis. Passed the Charbonniere 

 River, and encamped about one mile below. The steamer 

 "Tobacco Plant" landed on the shore opposite. Bell and 

 Harris killed a number of Gray Squirrels. 



Thursday, 19th. A heavy white frost, foggy, but calm. 

 We started early, the steamer after us. Forced by the 

 fog to stop on a bar, but reached St. Louis at three in 

 the afternoon. Unloaded and sent all the things to 

 Nicholas Berthoud's warehouse. Wrote home. 



Left St. Louis October 22, in steamer " Nautilus " for 

 Cincinnati. 



Reached home at 3 p. m., November 6th, 1843, and 

 thank God, found all my family quite well.^ 



J Audubon's daughter-in-law, Mrs. V. G. Audubon, writes : " He returned 

 on the 6th of November, 1843. ^^ ^'^as a bright day, and the whole family, 

 with his old friend Captain Cummings, were on the piazza waiting for the 

 carriage to come from Harlem [then the only way of reaching New York by 



