CONTENTS. XIU 



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Nest of the Humming Bird 91 



Its peculiar Food 92 



The Sun Bird 93 



Gem-like Plumage 93 



CHAPTER Vni 



Swamp on the Mississippi River. 94 



Guide to the Swamp 94 



A Cougar Hunt 95 



Seeking the Track 96 



TheAnimal "Treed" 96 



Is Shot, and Escapes Wounded 97 



The Pursuit continued 97 



Treed again 98 



Death of the Cougar 98 



A Suspicious Appeai'ance 99 



" Stand still or die" 99 



Audubon's Forbearance 100 



A Runaway Negro 100 



The Runaway's Queen 101 



The Negro's Recital 102 



Extreme Privations of his Family 103 



Audubon's kindness to them 104 



Mississippi Floods 104 



Their Destructiveness 105 



A Crevasse 106 



Scenes of Desolation 106 



Transformation 107 



Gradual Subsidence 108 



CHAPTER IX. 



Audubon's years of Toil and Disappointment 109 



His indomitable Perseverance 109 



