241 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 
In the fall of 1835 he started with a knapsack upon his back from 
Berlin as a traveling artisan, passed through parts of Silesia, Saxony, to 
Frankfort, down the Rhine, and finally coming to Bremen. Early in 
the spring of 1836 he embarked for Baltimore, Maryland, arriving with 
but two dollars in his pocket. In Philadelphia he worked in a tannery 
Fic. 13. Mr. August Frenpier, at about the time he lived at Allenton, Mo. 
for a time, then went to New York and worked at the lamp manufac- 
turing business. The financial panic of 1837 caused this business to 
be closed in the spring of 1838. 
Having made up his mind to go to St. Louis, he started as soon as 
possible. The easiest way was from New York to Albany by boat, 
thence to Buffalo by canal, to Cleveland by steamer, to Portsmouth on 
the Ohio River, and then down the Ohio and up the Mississippi by 
steamboat. This trip took thirty days. 
In St. Louis, which had then about 13,000 inhabitants, he soon got 
employment, but decided to go to New Orleans because of the approach- 
ing winter. He left St. Louis about Christmas, 1838, on foot, with his 
knapsack on his back; he crossed the Mississippi and walked along 
through the thinly settled forests of Illinois, the cane-brakes of Ken- 
tucky, and a part of Tennessee, where he fell in with two others going 
to the same destination. At the mouth of the Ohio they joined in buy- 
VoL, LXXIV.—17. 
