CHAPTER VI.

Make a Canoe--Voyage down the Arkansas River--Sleep in a Deserted Tavern--One Hundred and Seventy Miles through Swamps--Forty Miles a Day in Mud Knee-deep--A Sudden Lameness--Left alone in an Alligator Swamp--Healed, in Answer to Prayer--Arrival an Memphis--An Odd-looking Preacher--Compelled to Preach--Powerful Aid from the Spirit--Not what the Audience Expected.