348 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
or journal kept on this occasion abounds in interesting 
observations upon the life of the sea, particularly on 
the fishes and birds which were encountered in the Gulf. 
The first page of this journal,’ reproduced with ortho- 
graphic exactness, reads as follows: 
26 April 1826— 
I Left My Beloved Wife Lucy Agdubon and My Son John 
Woodhouse on Tuesday afternoon the 26 April, bound to 
England. remained at Doct™ Pope at St Francisville untill 
Wednesday 4 o’clock P. M.: in the Steam Boat Red River 
Cap® Kimble—having for Compagnons Mess‘ D. Hall & John 
Haliday—reached New Orleans Thursday 27> at 12—Visit- 
ed Many Vessels for My Passage and concluded to go in the 
Ship Delos of Kennebunk Cap® Joseph Hatch bound to Liv- 
erpool, Loaded with Cotton entirely— 
The Red River Steam Boat left on her return on Sun- 
day and I Wrote by her to Thee My Dearest Friend and for- 
ward? Thee 2 Small Boxes of Flowering Plants— 
saw, spoke to & walked with Charles Briggs, much altered 
young man— 
Lived at New Orleans at G. L. Sapinot in Company with 
Costé— 
During My Stay at New Orleans, I saw my old and friend- 
ly acquaintances the familly Pamar; but the whole time spent 
*Audubon’s 1826 manuscript journal, which I examined through the 
courtesy of Miss Maria R. Audubon in 1914, was written, mostly in pencil, 
in a ruled blank book, of similar size and quality to that used on the 
Ohio River in 1820-21 (see Note, p. 307), and was illustrated with a 
number of pencil sketches, chiefly of fishes. On page 2 was a rough out- 
line sketch of first mate Sam L. Bragdon, of Wells, Maine, reading in 
the booby hatch; to his kindness Audubon paid a written tribute; there 
was also a drawing of a “Balacuda [Barracouta] Fish, June 17, 1826;” 
of a “Shark, 7 ft. long; off Cuba, Jn. 18” (see reproduction); and of a 
“Dolphin; Gulph of Florida, May 28;” other sketches were of a line 
or “thread-winder,” a Flying Fish, and outlines of the Cuban coast. 
Audubon presented a sketch of the “Dolphin” to Captain Hatch, whose 
vessel, the Delos, went down on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland in 
the summer of 1831, but not until her crew and valuables had been trans- 
ferred to another boat that stood by. (For this note I am indebted to 
Miss Maria R. Audubon.) 
