38 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 
Audubon reached Hendersonville in 
early March, and witnessed the severe 
earthquake which visited that part of 
Kentucky the following November, 1812. 
Of this experience we also have a vivid 
account in his journals. 
Audubon continued to live at Hender- 
sonville, his pecuniary means much re- 
duced. He says that he made a pedes- 
trian tour back to St. Geneviéve to col- 
lect money due him from Rozier, walking 
the one hundred and sixty-five miles, 
much of the time nearly ankle-deep in 
mud and water, in a little over three 
days. Concerning the accuracy of this 
statement one also has his doubts. Later 
he bought a ‘‘wild horse,’’ and on its 
back travelled over Tennessee and a por- 
tion of Georgia, and so around to Phila- 
delphia, later returning to Henderson- 
ville. 
He continued his drawings of birds 
and animals, but, in the meantime, em- 
barked in another commercial venture, 
