. Some days
were spent in all the principal towns. On October eighth Saint
Louis was reached, and we were welcomed by the various boat-clubs
of the city and congratulated on having completed the first great
section of the navigable river. On October tenth we re-embarked and
pushed on towards the mouth of the river. Everywhere we were
received with the greatest cordiality. Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg,
Natchez and Baton Rouge were the chief halting places, but
frequently night overtook us near some plantation house, and then
we were the guests of the planters, and were entertained with true
Southern hospitality.

"Special occasion was taken by Captain Glazier to investigate the
cotton and sugar crops, the relations of the white and colored
races, and the future possibilities of the South; and with very
gratifying results. At last New Orleans was reached.

"As it was so near his journey's end, and as it was his intention
to return as soon as he had passed through the Jetties, the Captain
determined to pass the city on his downward trip without halting.
This was accordingly done, and three days' paddling brought us to
Captain Eads' great work. Remaining there a day we returned to the
city.

"Thus far Mr. Paine; and thus ended the longest canoe voyage ever
made, and one which perhaps entailed more hardships on those who
made it than any other on record. Starting from the cold springs at
its source Captain Glazier followed the windings of the greatest
river on our continent from the pine forests and the wheat lands of
the extreme Northern States, through all the varying phases of
climate and industries, to the cotton and sugar-cane section of the
South; past the orange and banana groves, and on to the broad Gulf.
Such a journey is full of interesting and strange experiences,
pleasures and hardships intermingled, and has, Captain Glazier
thinks, fully repaid the cost in time, money and labor of the
undertaking.

"The canoe in which this long voyage was made has been presented by
the Captain to the New Orleans Academy of Sciences.

"It may be well to mention that no one else has ever traversed
either in canoe, steamboat or otherwise more than two-thirds of the
course of the Mississippi; and when it is taken into consideration
that the di