128 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Apparently young Lindheimer soon after closed out his 
business affairs, and, taking his patrimony, sailed for America 
early in the spring of 1834. He landed at New York;* took 
the steamer to Troy, went by way of the Erie Canal to Buffalo, 
across the lake by steamer and down the Ohio Canal from 
Cleveland to Portsmouth. From here a river steamer car- 
ried him down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to St. Louis, 
from which he went to the German settlement at Belleville, 
Illinois, where the Engelmanns, Hilgards, Koerner, and many 
others of his friends and fellow townsmen had entered farms 
and established homes. He gives an account of his life there 
himself,j a fair sample of his general style of composition: 
“In a forest in St. Clair County in the State of Illinois, 
stood an abandoned log-house, which eight young men, 
mostly newcomers, had chosen for their provisional dwelling. 
Not far distant from it was the hospitable farm of Forest- 
master E., who had arrived a short time before from Rhenish 
Bavaria with a numerous family. The eight young men 
shared the living expenses with them. I am convinced that 
each of the eight will still recall the pleasure of the moment 
when the tone of the ox-horn sounded through the forest, 
calling them to dinner with that kind family, which, like 
most families, consisted not wholly of male companions. 
‘A great, carefully-planned drive-hunt, in which few wild 
animals were shot, moderately productive hunting for prairie- 
hens, and from time to time a rousing banquet, to which the 
neighbors were invited, shortened our time for us in a delight- 
ful manner. 
“Though this aimless and thoughtless life was for a time 
pleasant for all of us, yet it was not for the jar niente and the 
‘aus der Tasche zehren nicht der Zweck,’ for which we had 
come to America. The forest and the prairie had already put 
on their pale autumnal mantle and a single ‘norther’ be- 
tokened the coming winter. The roof of our old log-cabin 
' was so open that we could make astronomical observations 
from our beds, and the great chimney, in the last cold winter, 

* Trans. Ill. State Hist. Soc. for 1894. pp. 289-292. 
j Aufsaétze und Abhandlungen. pp. 78, 79. 
