362 A BOAT FOR ME. 



breakfast, but which to others was a dinner. At Hanibal 

 we took the steamboat for St Louis, which was not un 

 pleasantly filled with passengers, and I had again to 

 admire this method of transit as compared with the rail. 

 On board the best boats of the Mississippi and Missouri 

 rivers good order is maintained, the captains are intel 

 ligent and civil, and there a man need not sit by such 

 filthy companions as are forced on him in the railway 

 carriage. 



