Chapter XXIII: 1842

Pages 381-406.

THE FAR WEST: TO NIAGARA FALLS. AET. 30.

Descriptions in letters and in _Notes_ 381
Outline of westward travel 382
An Arabian-Night city 383
A temperance festival 383
A party at Judge Walker's 383
The party from another view 384
Young lady's description of C. D. 384
Mournful results of boredom 385
Down the Mississippi 386
Listening and watching 386
A levee at St. Louis 386
Compliments 387
Lord Ashburton's arrival 387
Talk with a judge on slavery 388
A negro burnt alive 388
Feeling of slaves themselves 389
American testimony 389
Pretty little scene 390
A mother and her husband 390
The baby 391
St. Louis in sight 392
Meeting of wife and husband 392
Trip to a prairie 393
On the prairie at sunset 393
General character of scenery 394
The prairie described 394
Disappointment and enjoyment 394
Soiree at Planter's House Inn 395
Good fare 395
No gray heads in St. Louis 396
Dueling 396
Mrs. Dickens as a traveler 397
From Cincinnati to Columbus 397
What a levee is like 398
From Columbus to Sandusky 398
The travelers alone 399
A log house inn 400
Making tidy 400
A monetary crisis 400
Americans not a humorous people 401
The only recreations 401
From Sandusky to Buffalo 402
On Lake Erie 402
Reception and consolation of a mayor 403
From Buffalo to Niagara 403
Nearing the Falls 404
The Horse-shoe 404
Effect upon him of Niagara 405
The old recollection 405
Looking forward 406