92 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 



Mrs. Audubon soon settled up her 

 affairs at Bayou Sara, and the two set 

 out early in January, 1830, for Louis- 

 ville, thence to Cincinnati, thence to 

 Wheeling, and so on to Washington, 

 where Audubon exhibited his drawings 

 to the House of Eepresentatives and re- 

 ceived their subscriptions as a body. 

 In Washington, he met the President, 

 Andrew Jackson, and made the ac- 

 quaintance of Edward Everett. Thence 

 to Baltimore where he obtained three 

 more subscribers, thence to New York 

 from which port he sailed in April with 

 his wife on the packet ship Pacific, for 

 England, and arrived at Liverpool in 

 twenty-five days. 



This second sojourn in England lasted 

 till the second of August, 1831. The 

 time was occupied in pushing the pub- 

 lication of his " Birds, " canvassing the 

 country for new subscribers, painting 

 numerous pictures for sale, writing his 

 ' ' Ornithological Biography, ' ' living part 



