CHAPTER in. 



OHIO INDIANA ILLINOIS MISSOURI. 



Lake Erie Cleveland Double-beds March through the fofest 

 Canton Cincinnati Lawrencebourg A burning forest 

 Deserted farm-house Wet weather and swollen rivers A 

 drunken companion Versailles Intrepid German Jews 

 Virtcennes Fording a river The prairies of Illinois Shoot- 

 ing deer Salem An Illinois settler Lebanon Ague 

 Passage of the Mississippi St. Louis German emigrants 

 A week's work in the forest Lead mines of Missouri Courant 

 river, the boundary of Missouri. 



ABOUT noon the steamer " North America " left for 

 Cleveland, in Ohio State, and with it my worthy self. 

 There was such a number of passengers in the steerage, 

 that it was hardly possible to move, and the state of 

 affairs was made worse by each of the American ladies * 

 having a short pipe in her mouth. Yet worse was 

 coming. Lake Erie, under the influence of a strong 

 breeze, began to get very rough in its treatment 

 of the boat ; one pipe after another was extinguished, 

 and the visages lengthened and whitened very suspi- 

 ciously. I observed this change with horror, and took 



* Two Englishmen travelling together in America, on board i\ 

 steamer, one of them was thus accosted: K I sun the gentleman that 

 cleans the shoes, and that man (pointing to the other) savs, you are 

 to pay." TUAXSLATOK. 



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