CHAPTER VIII. 



MY FIRST FIX AMERICAN LIBERALITY PREPARATIONS TOR THE 



DESERT THE GERMANIC JOHN MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS 



THE STRANGER TO TRUTH HIS STORY BOAT VerSUS RAIL ON 

 BOARD THE "SKYLARK" THE EMIGRANT WE FRATERNIZE. 



MINE, as the Americans would say, was far from a pleas 

 ing "fix," to find that the cost of my expedition had 

 been immensely underrated; but again, in the course 

 of my travels both in France and America, I had to 

 admire the offhand, unselfish, and high-toned liberality 

 of American gentlemen. In a former work, entitled 

 " A Month in the Forests of France," I had pleasure in 

 acknowledging this fact in the instance of the captain of 

 one of the sailing packets of the United States, whose 

 address I have forgotten; but now, in the same liberal 

 spirit, though to a far greater extent, it is with infinite 

 satisfaction that I allude to the kindness of Mr Robert 

 Campbell, of St Louis, who, apparently guessing what 

 my wishes would be, rather than having them explained 

 to him, at once offered to place at my service any sum 



