CHAPTER XXX. 



The Meeting with his Wife and Sons — Return with his Wife to 

 England — Provincial Canvass — The Ornithological Biography — 

 Assisted by W. McGillivray — Publication op the Work — Reviews 

 — Immense Sum Realized and Expended — Sails again for America. 



After remaining a few days at his lodgings, Audubon started 

 off to his wife and children, who were then residing in the south 

 and west ; Victor at Louisville, E^entucky, and Mrs. Audubon 

 and John at Mr. Qarrett Johnson's, in Mississippi, about one 

 hundred and fifty miles above New Orleans. 



"I crossed the mountains to Pittsburg, in the mail-coach, 

 with my dog and gun, and calling on my wife's relations, and 

 one of my old partners, Mr. Thomas Pears, I proceeded down 

 the Ohio in a steamboat to Louisville. On entering the 

 counting-house of my relative, Mr. Gr. W. Bakewell, I saw my 

 son Victor at a desk, but perhaps would not have recognized 

 him had he not known me at once. And the pleasure I 

 experienced on pressing him to my breast was increased when I 

 discovered how much my dear boy had improved, as I had not 

 seen him for five years. My son John Woodhouse I also found 

 at Mr. Berthond's, and he had also grown and improved. After 

 spending a few days at liouisville, I took passage on another 

 steamer going down the Mississippi, and in a few days landed 

 at Bayou Sara, and was soon at the house of Mr. Johnson, and 

 came suddenly on my dear wife : we were both overcome with 

 emotion, which found relief in tears." 



He remained three months with his wife, but was still actively 



