X CONTENTS. 



Eiver. Characteristic romancing of certain classes in America. Mr 

 Canterall's cry of " wolf." Deer-hunt. My guide in a swamp. 

 Arrival at Bock Creek. Village of Pottowadomy. Burnt prairies. 

 Blue cranes. Visit to Father Schultze. A comfortable lodging-house. 

 More of Mr Canterall's delinquencies. Encampment at Mud-creek. 

 Shooting on the march. 313325 



CHAP. XX. 



Prairie fires. A false alarm. Grouse and partridges. A pretty 

 Creek. Horse-stealing. The primeval forest. Wild geese, ducks, 

 and teal. Old trees. The wood-drake. Beautiful prospect. Mal 

 lards. Intelligence of Brutus. Night on the prairies. Arrival at 

 St Joseph. The Planter's House. American hotel-keepers. Black- 

 man's House. Audacious theft of my blue teal. Liberty Hall. A ball in 

 the hotel. A lesson in politeness. 326 343 



^HAP. XXI. 



License of the American press. Extract from the Knoxville Whig. Ir 

 responsible freedom. Mr E. Campbell of St Louis. The Mayor of St 

 Joseph. A barbicue. Abuse of strong liquors. Useful appendage 

 to the public rostrum. Negro dancing. Bad shot of a young 

 American rifleman. Mr Davis, the frontier huntsman. Sporting 

 excursion. Great coats at the expense of Government. Musk-rats 

 and their mounds. Dog distemper in the United States. Sale of 

 camping effects. Inferiority of American powder. Advice as to 

 travelling with dogs. Lecture at St Joseph. Library and Reading 

 Boom of the St Joseph Institute. American duelling. English 

 gentlemen in America. Steamboats on the Mississippi and Missouri. 



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CHAP. XXII. 



Freshwater bass. American angling. Pikespeakers. Wapeti antlers. 

 American inquisitiveness and barefaced flattery. Barnum's hotel at 

 St Louis. Extortionate demand of a flyman. The black barber. 

 Public basins. American hotel boys. Amusing peculiarities. Kafts 

 of timber. Lecture at St Louis. Dr Pope's private anatomical 

 museum. Beautiful miniature revolver. Assassination by a waist- 



