. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . or;now where sombre creeks stole in and out among the crooked trees, as if eagerto furnish seductive nooks for the brown, gray and red birds which fluttered andhovered and hopped from a thousand twigs. Or now where the mesquite quivered in the glare of the generous Texansun ; where the voices of negroes were heard in loud refrain, singing som
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . or;now where sombre creeks stole in and out among the crooked trees, as if eagerto furnish seductive nooks for the brown, gray and red birds which fluttered andhovered and hopped from a thousand twigs. Or now where the mesquite quivered in the glare of the generous Texansun ; where the voices of negroes were heard in loud refrain, singing some bois-terous melody as they loitered home from their half-completed tasks, the urchinssomersaulting on the elastic earth; and now where the shadows in the distancewere strangely lighted up by the erratic glow of the moon, which threw a fan-tastic glamour on moss and thicket, on lily, magnolia, and live oak. XXI. MISSOURI — ST. LOUIS, PAST AND PRESENT. MISSOURI is the child of a compromise whose epitaph was written in lettersof blood. Her chief city was founded more than a century ago, by acolony of adventurous Frenchmen; and for many years, during whose lapse thetitle to its soil was savagely disputed by Gaul and Indian, was a fur-trading Looking down on tl St I oui ltd) I t _ I i li r I 1 tl i. In ii im (. tLiiipIc [Il^- 217 1 When Laclede Liguest and the brave band of men who followed him set outfrom New Orleans, in 1763, to explore the country whose exclusive trade had 2l6 MISSOURI — LACLEDE LIGUESTs EXPLORATIONS. been accorded them by charter from the hands of the governor of the provinceof Louisiana, the lands west of the Mississippi were unexplored and the mouth of the Missouri river the bateau of no prying New Orleanstrader had ever penetrated. The song of the voyageur was as yet unheard by the savage; and the inhabitants of thelittle post of Sainte Genevieve lookedwith amazement and reverence upon thetrappers, hunters and merchants whostarted
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