^°1" ^^n Deane, Uupublished Extracts from Audubon's Jourtial. ZZS 



Oct. 14th, 1820. We returned to our boat with a Wild Turkey, 

 a Telltale Godwit and a Hermit Thrush which was too much torn 

 to make a drawing of it ; this was the iirst time I had met with 

 this bird and I felt particularly mortified at its condition. 



Nov. 2nd, 1820. Floated down slowly within two miles of Hen- 

 derson, I can scarcely conceive that I stayed there eight 3'ears 

 and passed therein comfortably, for it is undoubtedly on the poor- 

 est spot in the country, according to my present opinion. 



Nov. 3rd, 1820. We left our harbor at daybreak and passed 

 Henderson about sunrise. I looked on the MilP perhaps for the 

 last time, and with thoughts that made my blood almost run cold, 

 bid it an eternal farewell. 



Nov. 2jrd, 1820. I saw two large Eagle's Nests, one of them 

 I remembered seeing as I went to New^ Orleans eighteen months 

 ago. It had been worked upon, and no doubt young were raised 

 in it. It is in a large cypress tree not very high, made of very 

 large dead sticks, and about eight feet in diameter. 



New Orleans, Jan. 12th, 182 1. Early this morning I met an 

 Italian painter at the theatre. I took him to N. Berthoud's^ 

 rooms and showed him the drawing of the White-headed Eagle. 

 He was much pleased took me to his painting apartment at the 

 theatre, then to the Directors, who very roughly offered me $100 

 per month to paint with Monsieur ITtalien. I beUeve really now 

 that my talents must be poor. 



Jan. 13th, 1821. I rose up early tormented by many disagree- 

 able thoughts, again nearly without a cent, in a bustUng city where 

 no one cares a fig for a man in my situation. I walked to Jarvis 3 

 the portrait painter and showed him some of my drawings. He 

 leaned down, and examined them minutely, but never said they 

 were good or bad ; merely that when he drew an Eagle he made 

 it resemble a Lion, and covered it with yellow feathers, or rather 

 hair, not feathers, curious speech. Some people entered and 



1 The Grist Mill erected by Audubon and Bakewell was completed in 181 7 

 and still stands as a part of and adjoining the warehouse of Mr. David Clark, 

 and is used for the storage of leaf tobacco. 



^ Nicholas Augustus Berthoud, brother-in-law of Audubon. 



^ John Wesley Jarvis, a self-taught portrait painter, who lived in New 

 Orleans, Louisiana, in 1 820-1 821. Born 1780, died 1834. 



