. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. 492 AUDUBON iv f about two and a half miles. This was accordingly done; Bell, Harris, Mr. La Barge' — the first pilot—a mulatto hunter named Michaux, and I, started at nine. We first crossed through tangled brush-wood, and high-grown rushes for a few hundreds of yards, and soon perceived that here, as well as all along the Missouri and Mississippi, the land is highest nearest the shore, and falls off the farther one goes inland. Thus we soon came to mud, and from mud to muddy water, as ptire as it runs in the Mis- souri
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. 492 AUDUBON iv f about two and a half miles. This was accordingly done; Bell, Harris, Mr. La Barge' — the first pilot—a mulatto hunter named Michaux, and I, started at nine. We first crossed through tangled brush-wood, and high-grown rushes for a few hundreds of yards, and soon perceived that here, as well as all along the Missouri and Mississippi, the land is highest nearest the shore, and falls off the farther one goes inland. Thus we soon came to mud, and from mud to muddy water, as ptire as it runs in the Mis- souri itself; at every step which we took we raised several pounds of mud on our boots. Friend Harris very wisely returned, but the remainder of us proceeded through thick and thin until we came in sight of the prairies. But, alas! between us and them there existed a regular line of wil- lows— and who ever saw willows grow far from water? Here we were of course stopped, and after attempting in many places to cross the water that divided us from the dry land, we were forced back, and had to return as best we could. We were mud up to the very middle, the per- spiration ran down us, and at one time I was nearly ex- hausted ; which proves to me pretty clearly that I am no longer as young, or as active, as I was some thirty years ago. When we reached the boat I was glad of it. We washed, changed our clothes, dined, and felt much re- freshed. During our excursion out. Bell saw a Virginian Rail, and our sense of smell brought us to a dead Elk, putrid, and largely consumed by Wolves, whose tracks were very numerous about it. After dinner we went to 1 This is Captain Josepli La Barge, the oldest living pilot on the Mis- souri, and probably now the sole survivor of the " Omega " voyage of 1843. He was born Oct. i, 1815, of French parentage, his father having come to St. Louis, Mo., from Canada, and his mother from lower Louisiana. The family has been identified with the naviga
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