348 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



or journal kept on this occasion abounds in interesting 

 observations upon the life of the sea, particularly on 

 the fishes and birds which were encountered in the Gulf. 

 The first page of this journal, 1 reproduced with ortho- 

 graphic exactness, reads as follows: 



26 April 1826 



I Left My Beloved Wife Lucy Audubon and My Son John 

 Woodhouse on Tuesday afternoon the 26 th - April, bound to 

 England, remained at Doct r Pope at S* Francisville untill 

 Wednesday 4 o'clock P. M. : in the Steam Boat Red River 

 Cap e Kimble having for Compagnons Mess rs D. Hall & John 

 Haliday reached New Orleans Thursday 27 th at 12 Visit- 

 ed May Vessels for My Passage and concluded to go in the 

 Ship Delos of Kennebunk Cap 6 Joseph Hatch bound to Liv- 

 erpool, Loaded with Cotton entirely 



The Red River Steam Boat left on her return on Sun- 

 day and I Wrote by her to Thee My Dearest Friend and for- 

 ward d Thee 2 Small Boxes of Flowering Plants 



saw, spoke to & walked with Charles Briggs, much altered 

 young man 



Lived at New Orleans at G. L. Sapinot in Company with 

 Coste 



During My Stay at New Orleans, I saw my old and friend- 

 ly acquaintances the familly Pamar; but the whole time spent 



1 Audubon's 1826 manuscript journal, which I examined through the 

 courtesy of Miss Maria R. Audubon in 1914, was written, mostly in pencil, 

 in a ruled blank book, of similar size and quality to that used on the 

 Ohio River in 1820-21 (see Note, p. 307), and was illustrated with a 

 number of pencil sketches, chiefly of fishes. On page 2 was a rough out- 

 line sketch of first mate Sam L. Bragdon, of Wells, Maine, reading in 

 the booby hatch; to his kindness Audubon paid a written tribute; there 

 was also a drawing of a "Balacuda [Barracouta] Fish, June 17, 1826;" 

 of a "Shark, 7 ft. long; off Cuba, Jn. 18" (see reproduction); and of a 

 "Dolphin; Gulph of Florida, May 28;" other sketches were of a line 

 or "thread-winder," a Flying Fish, and outlines of the Cuban coast. 



Audubon presented a sketch of the "Dolphin" to Captain Hatch, whose 

 vessel, the Delos, went down on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland in 

 the summer of 1831, but not until her crew and valuables had been trans- 

 ferred to another boat that stood by. (For this note I am indebted to 

 Miss Maria R. Audubon.) 



