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such delinquents, we set fire to the cabin, gave the 

 skins and implements to the young Indian warrior, 

 and proceeded, well pleased, toward the settle- 

 ment." 



Mr Audubon concludes his narrative by saying 

 that, during upwards of twenty- five years' wander- 

 ings through all parts of the country, this was the 

 only time his life was endangered from his fellow- 

 creatures. He could only account for this occur- 

 rence by supposing that the inhabitants of the 

 cabin were not Americans. 



On another occasion our naturalist encountered 

 an adventure of by no means an agreeable kind, 

 though he seems to have made light of it, and even 

 to have turned it to good account. Travelling one 

 day, on the shores of Upper Canada, with a friend, 

 he was robbed of his purse, and left at a distance of 

 1500 -miles from home with just seven and a-half 

 dollars between them. After travelling two days, 

 and meeting with various adventures, the two com- 

 panions reached Meadville, by which time their 

 cash was reduced to one hundred and fifty cents. 

 No time was to be lost. They accordingly put their 

 baggage and themselves under the roof of a tavern- 

 keeper at the sign of the " Traveller's Rest," and 

 soon after took a walk to survey the little village 



flict adequate punishment on evil-doers. This is generally a 

 boverc castigatioii of the guilty, and the destruction of his cabin. 



