222 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
enlivened the woods and the prairies, all looked like enemies, and 
I turned my eyes from them, as if I could have wished that they 
had never existed.” But this was only the probationary period, 
and Audubon was to emerge from the wilderness. 
The “ European Journals,” which occupy a large portion of 
the first volume, detail his visit to these islands, with his portfolio — 
of matchless drawings of the birds he had studied so long, and 
which belonged to the country he loved so well. He was well, 
nay, warmly received, and when in Liverpool, to which he was so 
grateful, Manchester that scarcely equalled his expectations, and 
Edinburgh, which fairly captivated him, we find recorded the 
friendships of many well-remembered eminent men, and traits and 
reminiscences of others perhaps more familiar to some of our 
readers, as Bewick, Jardine, Selby, and Swainson. We have one 
delicious insight into the then current philosophy of society. 
Captain Basil Hall “‘ called to speak to me about my paper on 
Pigeons; he complained that I expressed the belief that Pigeons 
were possessed of affection and tenderest love, and that this raised 
the brute species to a level with man.” It was during this journey 
that Audubon sought and obtained subscribers to his great work, 
and published the first numbers of the same. The visit to Paris 
produced few subscribers, but afforded an intercourse with the ~ 
great Cuvier. 
The trip to ina was made in 1838, with the obi of 
“procuring birds and making drawings of them for the con- 
tinuation of the ‘Birds of America,’ the publication of which 
was then being carried on in London. The Journal of this 
excursion is replete with the details of bird-life, and exhibits 
Audubon as a writer of great descriptive power. As we sail with — 
him to the desolate land we are gradually prepared for the physical 
horrors of this ornithological paradise. ‘‘ When we landed and 
passed the beach, we sunk nearly up to our knees in mosses of 
various sorts..... A poor, rugged, miserable country; the trees 
like so many mops of wiry composition, and where the soil is not 
rocky it is boggy up to a man’s waist.” The weather is most 
frequently described under the appellations of rains, fogs, hurri- 
canes. The drawings were made on board ship, with all its 
uneasy movements, and the cold was sometimes so intense as to 
render holding the pencil a difficult task. Yet many nests were 
