34 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 

 habited and only the coarsest goods 

 were in demand. To procure food the 

 merchants had to resort to fishing and 

 hunting. They employed a clerk who 

 proved a good shot ; he and Audubon 

 supplied the table while Rozier again 

 stood behind the counter. 



How long the Hendersonville enter- 

 prise lasted we do not know. Another 

 change was finally determined upon, and 

 the next glimpse we get of Audubon, we 

 see him with his clerk and partner and 

 their remaining stock in trade, consisting 

 of three hundred barrels of whiskey, 

 sundry dry goods and powder, on board 

 a keel boat making their way down the 

 Ohio, in a severe snow storm, toward 

 St. Genevieve, a settlement on the Mis- 

 sissippi Eiver, where they proposed to 

 try again. The boat is steered by a long 

 oar, about sixty feet in length, made of 

 the trunk of a slender tree, and shaped 

 at its outer extremity like the fin of a 

 dolphin 5 four oars in the bow propelled 



