CHAPTER II.

NEW YORK TO BUFFALO.

Car-drivers--An Irish Funeral--German Boarding-House--A Pulpit in a State of Siege--Negroes at New York--Shooting Excursion near New York--Railway to Utica--American Canal Boat--My Fat Fellow-passenger--Pennsylvanian smith--Hamilton--Wild Duck-shooting--An Indian Hunter--Night in the Woods--A Yankee Cattle-dealer--Buffalo Politicians.....31--60