92 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 
Mrs. Audubon soon settled up her 
affairs at Bayou Sara, and the two set 
out early in January, 1830, for Louis- 
ville, thence to Cincinnati, thence to 
Wheeling, and so on to Washington, 
where Audubon exhibited his drawings 
to the House of Representatives and re- 
ceived their subscriptions as a body. 
In Washington, he met the President, 
Andrew Jackson, and made the ac- 
quaintance of Edward Everett. Thence 
to Baltimore where he obtained three 
more subscribers, thence to New York 
from which port he sailed in April with 
his wife on the packet ‘ship Pacific, for 
England, and arrived at Liverpool in 
twenty-five days. 
This second sojourn in England lasted 
till the second of August, 1831. The 
time was occupied in pushing the pub- 
lication of his ‘‘Birds,’’? canvassing the 
country for new subscribers, painting 
numerous pictures for sale, writing his 
* Ornithological Biography,”’ living part 
