8&8 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 
On November 9, he is back in Lon- 
don, and soon busy painting, and press- 
ing forward the engraving and colouring 
of his work. The eleventh number was 
the first for the year 1829. 
The winter was largely taken up in 
getting ready for his return trip to 
America. He found a suitable agent to 
look after his interests, collected some 
money, paid all his debts, and on April 
1 sailed from Portsmouth in the packet 
ship Columbia. He was sea-sick during 
the entire voyage, and reached New 
York May 5. He did not hasten to 
his family as would have been quite 
natural after so long an absence, but 
spent the summer and part of the fall 
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, prose- 
cuting his studies and drawings of birds, 
making his headquarters in Camden, New 
Jersey. He spent six weeks in the Great 
Pine Forest, and much time at Great 
Egg Harbor, and has given delightful 
accounts of these trips in his journals. 
