CHAPTER III. 



OHIO — INDIANA — ILLINOIS — MISSOURI. 



Lake Erie — Cleveland — Double-beds — March through the forest 

 — Canton — Cincinnati — Lawrencebourg — A burning forest — 

 Deserted farm-house — Wet weather and swollen rivers — A 

 drunken companion — Versailles — Intrepid German Jews — 

 Vincennes — Fording a river — The prairies of Illinois — Shoot- 

 ing deer — Salem — An Illinois settler — Lebanon — Ague — 

 Passage of the Mississippi — St. Louis — German emigrants — 

 A week's work in the forest — Lead mines of ilissouri — Courant 

 river, the boundary of Missouri. 



About noon the steamer "North America" left for 

 Cleveland, in Ohio State, and Avith it my worthy self. 

 There was such a number of passengers in the steerage, 

 that it was hardly possible to move, and the state of 

 affairs was made worse by each of the American ladies * 

 having a short pipe in her mouth. Yet worse was 

 coming. Lake Erie, under the influence of a strong 

 breeze, began to get very rough in its treatment 

 of the boat ; one pipe after another was extinguished, 

 and the visages lengthened and whitened very suspi- 

 ciously. I observed this change with horror, and took 



* Two Englishmen travelling together in America, on board a 

 steamer, one of them was thus accosted : " I am the gentleman that 

 cleans the shoes, and that man (pointing to the other) says, you are 

 to pay." — Translatok. 



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