CHAPTER XII.

LOUISIANA--NEW ORLEANS, AND HOME.

Mosquitoes--Meeting with Kean--The Hotel at Point Coupée--Slaves and their Condition--Snipe-shooting--Vegetation of Louisiana--Shooting Alligators by Torchlight--Their Antipathy to Dogs and Negroes--New Orleans--The “Olbers” for Bremen--Mouth of the Mississippi--The Gulf of Mexico--Fever--The Lübecker and his Wife--The Channel--Quarantine.....374--396

WILD SPORTS

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ADVENTURES IN THE FAR WEST.