CHAPTER LI. 



Retden to England — ^Visit to Babon Eothsohild — Queer Ebctbption — 

 Results op the Visit — Removal to Edinbuegh — Rbtuen to Lon- 

 don — Bmbakks with MtrcH Lite Stock foe New Yoek — Notes by 

 THE Wat. 



Afril 16, 1834. After remaining two weeks in New York, 

 Audubon, his wife, and son John, sailed on the above date 

 for Liverpool, " in the superb packet, the North America, com- 

 manded by that excellent gentleman, Mr. Dixey of Philadelphia. 

 Our company was good ; our passage was good ; the first land 

 we saw was Holyhead, and in nineteen days after leaving 

 America we were put ashore in Old England." Audubon saw 

 his friends in Liverpool, who had lost none of their former 

 cordiality and kindness ; and after a few days he left with his 

 family, by the way of Birmingham, for London. 



"May 12. We reached London to-day and found our son 

 Victor quite well, and were all happy. My work and business 

 was going on prosperously." After remaining several weeks in 

 London, and seeing to matters relating to his publication there, 

 Audubon and his son Victor went to deliver letters of in- 

 troduction which they had brought. Among those letters was 

 one from one of the firm of the distinguished American banking- 

 house of Prime, Ward, and King, to the famous London banker, 

 Eothschild. "The letter was addressed to Baron Eothschild, 

 the man who, notwithstanding his original poverty, is now so 

 well known through his immense wealth, which he uses as 



