JOHK JAMES AUDUBON 97 

 of the lumbermen and was a deeply in- 

 terested spectator of their ways and 

 doings. Some of his best descriptive 

 passages are contained in these diaries. 



In October he is back in Boston plan- 

 ning a trip to Labrador, and intent on 

 adding more material to his " Birds 7 ' 

 by another year in his home country. 



That his interests abroad in the mean- 

 time might not suffer by being entirely 

 in outside hands, he sent his son Victor, 

 now a young man of considerable busi- 

 ness experience, to England to repre- 

 sent him there. The winter of 1832 

 and 1833 Audubon seems to have spent 

 mainly in Boston, drawing and re-draw- 

 ing and there he had his first serious ill- 

 ness. 



In the spring of 1833, a schooner 

 was chartered and, accompanied by five 

 young men, his youngest son, John 

 Woodhouse, among them, Audubon 

 started on his Labrador trip, which 

 lasted till the end of summer. It was 



