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for fishing or shooting, and the hotel, the society, 

 and the yacht, upon the lake Michigan, of Mr Fellers. 

 In him the traveller will find a sportsman and gentl eman 

 and meet with all that attention and kindness which 

 render life in any place so very agreeable. In the 

 route by which I returned, the traveller will find St 

 Louis, and there let him deliver a sufficient letter of 

 introduction to the Messrs Campbell. At St Louis let 

 him inquire for my friend Captain Lousley (at the time 

 that I was there in command of the steamer Skylark), 

 and let him thus wend his way by that steamer 

 far as he can go, to St Joe, At St Joe let him inquire 

 for any of the gentlemen named in my narrative, and, 

 having delivered a letter of introduction to them from 

 the Messrs Campbell, perhaps they, if they like his 

 manners and looks, and he pretends to no vulgar eccen 

 tricity, will make a sufficient party and join him in 

 a hunt on the plains. If this cannot be done, let 

 the traveller then take the cumbrous, but for a public 

 conveyance not unpleasant, vehicle, called a four-horse 

 stage-coach, and let him jolt his way in this to Fort 

 Biley. Supposing him to have sufficient letters of intro 

 duction to the gentlemen and soldiers of the American 

 Army there in command, he will meet with as high 

 hearted, generous hospitality as any place in England 

 could afford, and they will, if their duty permits them 

 to do so, form a party that will, in safety and comfort 

 and good companionship, take him to the plains, and 

 good-humouredly test his hunting powers. By this 

 means all travellers will get rid of the nuisance of 

 hiring a guide, who may be, as mine was, a rascal, 

 incompetent to anything but falsehood, disobedience, 

 and theft. They will save an immense expenditure 



