Describes waiting for the steamboat Cincinnati in Cairo, Illinois. Transcription: So the time passed dismally on, I was very weary, having had little sleep last night, also by the wretchedly passed day. So going inside the barge-store, I found a motley group reclining on bales, boxes, the counter & floor. With the bear-skin for a coverlid, & carpetbag for pillow, I lay down on the floor, in the shade of the counter, & despite the steamboats roar the trampling about & general noise, fell asleep, and soundly. This night. . 18. Friday. . .be about 11. Once I was aroused by another incoming steam
Describes waiting for the steamboat Cincinnati in Cairo, Illinois. Transcription: So the time passed dismally on, I was very weary, having had little sleep last night, also by the wretchedly passed day. So going inside the barge-store, I found a motley group reclining on bales, boxes, the counter & floor. With the bear-skin for a coverlid, & carpetbag for pillow, I lay down on the floor, in the shade of the counter, & despite the steamboats roar the trampling about & general noise, fell asleep, and soundly. This night. . 18. Friday. . .be about 11. Once I was aroused by another incoming steamer, but it not being the one, to sleep again, till 3 in the morning. And then the boat did come, and after another weary hour ?s delay, I got desperate at witnessing here among the barges below, clambered off across a long plank to the mud bank again, took a walk, reached other barges and planks, crossed steamboats, and got aboard the ?ǣCincinatti. ? More fortunate than others, I, by producing [New York] Times credentials, got a berth; and soon disregarding all the tumult without was in deep, dead sleep. Up betimes, and find we have lain at Cairo till near day-break, and are now steaming up the Ohio, Kentucky shore on the right, Illinois on the left. A handsome boat is the ?ǣCincinatti, ? and crowded. The Ohio is a picturesque stream, though its waters now partake of the muddy Mississippi tinge; its banks present fine sloping shores, bluffs, and headlands; here and there an island, (or what appears to be such is seen,) and distant rounded hill tops, all covered by bare, brown, autumn-denuded elm and sycamore. No more luxuriant foliage now, as in sunny Louisiana. And welcome be the sturdy north, with its honest frost and snow, ? almost could I welcome mud and sloppy streets again. Never did I love striving, stirring New York, (capital and chief among cities in the Western world!) better than now. / We pause at little towns on either bank; and once sever a rope by which one st
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