INTRODUCTION. XV 
Constellation, and presented us to Commodore Daas, to 
whom I had letters of introduction from our government. This 
polite and gallant officer received us all with great kindness, 
and, after reading my letters, assured me that as soon as a 
cutter could be spared, it should be at my service, and that 
the information would be transmitted to me through the me- 
dium of the Collector of Customs at Mobile or New Orleans. 
After searching the country around Pensacola, we returned to 
Mobile, and proceeded to New Orleans in a steamer, by way 
of the great lakes. 
Having previously received the most pressing invitation 
from my friend James GrimsHaw, Esq., my son and I went 
at once to his house, where we were treated with all the kind- 
ness to be expected from a true English gentleman. I had 
the pleasure of renewing my acquaintance with Ex-Governor 
Roman, and several members of his most amiable family, 
among whom was Mr ZarinevE. From that gentleman 
I received much valuable information respecting some of 
our birds, as well as from my long-known acquaintance, the 
great sportsman Mr Louis Apam. Here also I for the last 
time met with good M. Le Suzur, well known to the world of 
science as a zoologist of great merit, and with whom I first 
became acquainted at Philadelphia in 1824. He, alas! is now 
no more. 
Having called on Mr BREEDLOVE, Collector of Customs for 
New Orleans, and presented to him my letters from the Honour- 
able Levi Wooppury, he at once assured me that the Revenue 
Cutter the Campbell, would be at my disposal in a very few 
days. But the service, or other circumstances, did not allow 
the arrival of that vessel at New Orleans until late in March, 
