JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 97 
of the lumbermen and was a deeply in- 
terested spectator of their ways and 
doings. Some of his best descriptive 
passages are contained in these diaries. 
In October he is back in Boston plan-. 
ning a trip to Labrador, and intent on 
adding more material to his ‘‘Birds’’ 
by another year in his home country. 
That his interests abroad in the mean- 
time might not suffer by being entirely 
in outside hands, he sent his son Victor, 
now a young man of considerable busi- 
ness experience, to England to repre- 
sent him there. The winter of 1832 
and 1833 Audubon seems to have spent 
mainly in Boston, drawing and re-draw- 
ing and there he had his first serious ill-. 
ness. 
In the spring of 1833, a schooner 
was chartered and, accompanied by five 
young men, his youngest son, John 
Woodhouse, among them, Audubon 
started on his Labrador trip, which 
lasted till the end of summer. It was 
