CONTENTS. XI 



bating Society — Knotty Points of Debate — A Panther in a 

 Cave — Watchfire and Wounds — Off again after Game — Hunt- 

 ing witli the Indians — Skeletons — Narrow Quarters — Wachiga 

 — °Our Fatal Temerity — Erskine's Death — A Terrible Night — 

 A Primitive Operation — I decline taking a Farm — A Rencon- 

 tre 312-349 



CHAPTER XI. 



A FATAL BRAWL — RETURN TO LITTLE ROCK — SUMMA- 

 RY JUSTICE — DOWN SOUTH. 



Whiskey and Bloodshed — Wounded and Alone — A Prize — Return 

 to Slowtrap's — Little Rock — Deer-shooting at the " Salt Lick" 



— Logwood Trees in Arkansas — Summary Judicial Proceedings 



— Calls for attracting Deer — Indian Method of Dressing Skins — 

 A Matrimonial Difficulty — Buck-shooting — Letters at Little 

 Rock — Canoe Voyage down the Arkansas — Celebration of the 

 4thofJuly 350-373 



CHAPTER XH. 



LOUISIANA NEW ORLEANS, AND HOME. 



Mosquitoes — Meeting with Kean— The Hotel at Point Couple — 

 Slaves and their Condition — Snipe-shooting — Vegetation of 

 Louisiana — Shooting Alligators by Torchhght— Their Antipa- 

 thy to Dogs and Negroes — New Orleans — The" Olbers" for 

 Bremen — Mouth of the Mississippi— The Gulf of Mexico — 

 Fever — The Liibecker and his Wife — The Channel — Quaran- 

 tine 374-396 



