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about eight inches long, and was preserved in a tub of water, in 
which it was daily supplied with fresh grass. When it was taken 
out of the water and placed on the sand, it ran about with much 
alacrity. Its head was disproportionately large, and it had already 
double rows of sharp teeth. 
In the afternoon we saw a volunteer company, of about twenty 
and upwards strong, pretty well equipped, turn out to celebrate 
the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, the eighth of Ja¬ 
nuary, 1815. On the preceding day, being Sunday, this festi¬ 
val was not commemorated. They had erected a platform on an 
open spot of ground, and brought there three old iron pieces, 
with which a national salute of twenty-four guns was fired. Colo¬ 
nel Wool had many acquaintances and countrymen here, from 
the north, to whom he introduced me. Conversation, therefore, 
did not fail us, though many comforts of life are withheld for a 
period. Thus, for example, I was deprived of milk so long as 
I was in the Indian territory, as the cattle were driven into the 
woods during the winter, to support themselves. 
I made an attempt to pass round the town, but was prevented 
on one side by woods, and on the other, by ditches and marshes, 
so that I found myself limited in my promenade to the streets. 
These, however, I measured to my heart’s content. There 
was nothing new to me but some fruit shops, in which were ex¬ 
cellent oranges from Cuba, at six cents a piece, large pine apples, 
much larger than the finest I had seen in England, also from 
Cuba, a ( forty-two and three-quarter cents a piece, thus much 
dearer than in Charleston, where they cost but twelve arid a half 
cents a piece, besides bananas and cocoa nuts in abundance. 
CHAPTER XVIIL 
Travels to Pensacola . 
COLONEL WOOL was obliged to go to Pensacola, in pur¬ 
suance of his duty of inspection. I determined to accompany 
him with Mr. Huygens, as Pensacola was interesting to me as a 
military man. Mr. Bowdoin felt himself unwell, and was tired 
of travelling. He remained, therefore, in Mobile, with the in¬ 
tention of going to New Orleans by the first opportunity. 
On the 10th of January, we left Mobile in the steam-boat 
Emeline. This vessel goes daily from Blakely, which lies on 
the left shore of the bay, to Mobile, and back again. The 
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