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Passages and fares at hotels, etc., included, were 

 now calculated to see how we had estimated the 

 cost of each person to Cairo, and we found that for 

 each one it was one dollar and forty-five cents over 

 the twent}^-five dollars allowed, and I took passages 

 to the latter place direct, remaining only four hours 

 at Louisville, where I had the good fortune to find 

 my uncle W. G. Bakewell waiting for me, and 

 dined with him while our boat was putting out 

 some freight at Albany, below the falls. When I 

 joined my party I was told that some of the men 

 had stolen a valuable pointer dog, and that a 

 telegraphic notice had been sent after them; but 

 on inquiring I found it had been purchased, 

 no doubt from a thief, so we sent it back from 

 Cairo. 



Large flocks of geese and ducks were seen by us 

 as we made the mouth of the Ohio, and the numbers 

 increased about Cairo. The ice in the Mississippi 

 was running so thick that the "J. Q. Adams" 

 returned after a fruitless effort to ascend the river. 

 All Cairo was under water, the wharf boat we were 

 put on, an old steamer, could only accommodate 

 thirty-five of our party, so that the other thirty had 

 to be sent to another boat of the same class ; the 

 weather was extremely cold, with squalls of snow 

 from the north with a keen wind, there was no 

 plank from our boat to the levee of Cairo, the only 

 part of the city out of water. Will it be wondered 



