CHAPTER III.

THE PILGRIMAGE TO THE SETTLEMENT.

Scenery of the Hudson--The haunted island--A night on the Hudson--Utica--A "railway hotel" repast--The Erie canal--A name for the future town--The canal bridges--The first death--The Falls of Niagara--American fences--Abandonment of luggage--Difficulties in the treasury--The subscription--Cincinnati--Adventures in Cincinnati--An old settler--The Negro barber--German-American politics--Political spouting--Daybreak on the Ohio--Normann's love suit--The Cincinnati "Museum"--First impressions of the Mississippi--Arrival at the Big Halchee--The home in the wilderness 84-133