414 ^'^f^ of Audubon, 



personally rewarded by President Houston, with a town 

 lot, a doubloon, and the privilege of keeping a ferry 

 across the Buffalo Bayou at the town, where the bayou 

 forks diverge in opposite directions. 



" May 16. Departed for New Washington, where we 

 received kind attentions from Col. James Morgan j cross- 

 ed San Jacinto Bay to the Campbell, and the next day 

 dropped down to Galveston. 



"May 18. Left the bar of Galveston, having on board 

 Mr. Crawford, British Consul at Tampico, and a Mr. Al- 

 len of New Orleans. 



" May 24. Arrived at the S. W. Pass, and proceeded 

 to the Balize, and thence to New Orleans, where we ar- 

 rived in three days. 



"New Orleaiis^ May 28. Breakfast with Ex-Governor 

 Roman and his delightful family, with Mr. Edward Har- 

 ris." 



Audubon suffered greatly during this expedition to 

 Texas, and lost twelve pounds in weight. He found New 

 Orleans nearly deserted, and dull, and the weather op- 

 pressively hot and disagreeable. 



" May 31. We bid adieu to our New Orleans friends, 

 leaving in their care for shipment our collections, cloth- 

 ing, and dog Dash for Mr. W. Bakewell. Harris went up 

 the river, and we crossed to Mobile in the steamer Swan, 

 paying fare twelve dollars each, and making the trip of 

 one hundred and fifty miles in twenty-one hours. If New 

 Orleans appeared prostrated. Mobile, seemed quite dead. 

 We left in the afternoon for Stockton, Alabama, forty-five 

 miles distant, where we were placed in a cart, and tum- 

 bled and tossed for one hundred and sixty-five miles to 

 Montgomery ; fare twenty-three dollars each, miserable 

 road and rascally fare. At Montgomery we took the 

 mail coach, and were much relieved ; fare to Columbus 

 twenty-six dollars each. Our travelling companions were 



