. Audubon and his journals . stay in this city of my youthI did enjoy myself famously well, with dancing, dinner-parties, etc. We left for St. Louis on board the ever-to-be-remembcrcd steamer Gallant, and after havingbeen struck by a log which did not send us to the bottom,arrived on the 28th of March. On the 4th of April, Harris went off to Edwardsville,with the rest of my companions, and I went to NicholasBerthoud, who began housekeeping here that day, thoughEliza was not yet arrived from Pittsburgh. My time atSt. Louis would have been agreeable to any one fond ofcompany, dinners, and partie
. Audubon and his journals . stay in this city of my youthI did enjoy myself famously well, with dancing, dinner-parties, etc. We left for St. Louis on board the ever-to-be-remembcrcd steamer Gallant, and after havingbeen struck by a log which did not send us to the bottom,arrived on the 28th of March. On the 4th of April, Harris went off to Edwardsville,with the rest of my companions, and I went to NicholasBerthoud, who began housekeeping here that day, thoughEliza was not yet arrived from Pittsburgh. My time atSt. Louis would have been agreeable to any one fond ofcompany, dinners, and parties; but of these matters I amnot, though I did dine at three different houses, bon gr^ymalgr^. In fact, my time was spent procuring, arranging,and superintending the necessary objects for the comfortand utility of the party attached to my undertaking. TheChouteaux supplied us with most things, and, let it be saidto their honor, at little or no profit. Captain Sire took mein a light wagon to see old Mr. Chouteau one afternoon,. AUDUBUN. FROM THE PORTRAIT BY JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDLBON (ABOUT l84l)- THE MISSOURI RIVER JOURNALS 455 and I found the worthy old gentleman so kind and so fullof information about the countries of the Indians that Ireturned to him a few days afterwards, not only for thesake of the pleasure I enjoyed in his conversation, but alsowith the view to procure, both dead and alive, a species ofPouched Rat (^Psendostoma btcrsaruisy wonderfully abun-dant in this section of country. One day our friend Har-ris came back, and brought with him the prepared skinsof birds and quadrupeds they had collected, and informed me that they had removed their quarters to B s. He left the next day, after we had made an arrangement forthe party to return the Friday following, which they drew four figures of Pouched Rats, and outlined two fig-ures of Scitiriis capistratus? which is here called FoxSquirrel. The 25th of April at last made its appearance, the riverswere now opened, the
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