26 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 
Ohio in a flatboat in company with sev- 
eral other young emigrant families. The 
voyage occupied twelve days and was no 
doubt made good use of by Audubon in 
observing the wild nature along shore. 
In Louisville, he and Rozier opened 
a large store which promised well. But 
Audubon’s heart was more and more 
with the birds, and his business more 
and more neglected. Rozier attended to 
the counter, and, Audubon says, grew 
rich, but he himself spent most of the 
time in the woods or hunting with the 
planters settled about Louisville, be- 
tween whom and himself a warm attach- 
ment soon sprang up. He was not grow- 
ing rich, but he was happy. ‘‘I shot, I 
drew, I looked on Nature only,’’ he 
says, ‘‘and my days were happy beyond 
human conception, and beyond this I 
really cared not.’’ 
He says that the only part of the com- 
mercial business he enjoyed was the ever 
engaging journeys which he made to 
