814 LIFE OF AUDUBON. 



the care of a young officer unknown to me ; and besides this, 

 my son Victor wrote me from England desiring my return. So 

 we began to prepare gradually for a retrograde movement 

 towards the north, and on the Ist of March we left our friends 

 and Charleston to return to New York. We travelled through 

 North and South Carolina, and reached Norfolk, Ya., on the 

 6th ; went up the bay to Washington, thence to Baltimore, and 

 took lodgings at Theodore Anderson's in Fayette Street, 



" At Baltimore we saw all our friends and obtained three new 

 subscribers, and lost one, a banker." Here Audubon remained 

 about a month ; went to Philadelphia to collect money, which 

 he found rather difficult ; and passed on to New York. 



