X Contents. 



Rain — Excursions on Shore — Hut of a Labrador Seal-Catch- 

 er — Great Macatine Islands — Officers' Bivouac Ashore. 323 



CHAPTER XXX. 



Labrador Episodes : The Squatters of Labrador. . 351 



CHAPTER XXXr. 

 Notes on Labrador — Gulf of St. Lawrence — St. George's Bay, 

 Newfoundland — Land on Ruy's Island — "Wanderings Over- 

 land — Pictou — Truro and the Bay of Fundy — Arrival at 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia — Arrival at New York. . 359 



CHAPTER XXXIL 



Journal Resumed — Washington Irving — Wanderings South — 

 Florida Excursion Abandoned — Returns North — Sails for 

 England — Visit to Baron Rothschild — Removal to Edinburgh 

 — Return to London — Embarks with much Live Stock to 

 New York — Notes by the Way. .... 376 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 

 In America — Philadelphia — Boston — Friends and Birds — Meet- 

 ing with Daniel Webster — Back to New York — Social Meet- 

 ings — Washington — Two Letters of Washington Irving — 

 Interview with the President — Proposed Scientific Expedi- 

 tion. ....... 386 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 



Excursion South — Starts in Cutter for Galveston Bay, Texas — 

 Barataria Bay — Great Hunting Excursion with a Squatter — 

 Notes in Texas — Buffalo Bayou — Texas Capitol and 

 Houses of Congress — Reaches New Orleans — In England 

 Again — Literary Labors — Back to America. . 400 



CHAPTER XXXV, 

 Excursion to the Great Western Prairies — Up the Missouri — Riv- 

 er Pictures — The Mandans — The " Medicine Lodge" — 

 Ricaree Indians — Fort Union — Buiifalo Hunt — Small-Pox 

 among the Indians — Return to New York. . . 417 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 

 Audubon's Last Days — His Habits — Love of Music — Description 

 of Audubon Park — His Library and Studio — Visitors — Ex- 

 hibition of Drawings — Mental Gloaming — Loss of Sight — • 

 The Naturalist's Death and Funeral. . . . 435 



