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from ready for publication, he felt that at least he might 
better his condition, and with this end in view he sent 
his drawings from Natchez to that city; a hasty visit 
was made also to New Orleans, for the purpose, no 
doubt, of obtaining credentials to possible patrons in 
the East. At last, on October 3, he started with Victor 
on the steamer Magnet for Louisville. Low water 
quickly held them up after entering the mouth of the 
Ohio, and they were obliged to disembark at the little 
village of Trinity, at the mouth of Cash Creek, the scene 
of Audubon’s misadventures with Rozier thirteen years 
before. The remoteness of the situation and the state 
of their funds, which corresponded with that of the 
river, left no alternative but to walk, and they under- 
took to reach Louisville, several hundred miles distant, 
afoot. Two other travelers joined them, and with Vic- 
tor, then a lad of nearly fourteen, the party left the creek 
at noon on October 15 and struck across country through 
the forests and canebrakes. At Green River, which was 
reached on the 21st, Victor gave out from sheer exhaus- 
tion,”* and the remainder of the journey was finished 
in a Jersey wagon. At length, said Audubon, “I en- 
tered Louisville with thirteen dollars in my pocket.” 
At Shippingport, then an independent town at the Falls 
of the Ohio, he was obliged to settle down for the win- 
ter. A place for Victor was found in the counting- 
house of Nicholas A. Berthoud, while the father under- 
took anything that came to hand, painting portraits, 
landscapes, panels for river boats, and even street signs, 
2 One of the early steamboats on the Ohio that had been built at 
Pittsburgh, in 1821, by Thomas W. Bakewell, his buother-in-law and 
former partner. 
2 See “A Tough Walk for a Youth,” Ornithological Biography (Bibl. 
No. 2), vol. iii, p. 371; and “The Hospitality of the Woods,” ibid., vol. i, 
p. 383. 
