jH CONTENTS

CHAPTER XXYIL

SOME IMPORTED ARTICLES.

PAOl

Tourists and their Note-books— Captain Hall— Mrs. Trollope's Emo-
tions — Hon. Charles Augustus Murray's Sentiment — Captain
Marryat's Sensations — Alexander Mackay's Feelings — Mr. Parkman
Beports ...... .... 255

CHAPTER XXVTIL

MUMFORD UNLOADS.

Swinging down the River — Named for Me — Plum Point again — Lights
and Snag Boats — Infinite Changes — A Lawless River — Changes and
Jetties —Uncle Mumford Testifies — Pegging the River — What the
Government does — The Commission Men and Theories. ' Had them
Bad ' — Jews and Prices . ...... *«J60

CHAPTER XXIX.

A FEW SPECIMEN BRICKS.

Murel's Gang — A Consummate Yillaia — Getting Rid of Witnesses —
Stewart turns Traitor — I Start a Rebellion — I get a New Suit of
Clothes — We Cover our Tracks — Pluck and Capacity — A Good Sama-
ritan City— The Old mnd the New ....... 272

OHAPTEE XXX.

SKETCHES BY THE WAY.

A Melancholy Picture — On the Move — River Gossip — She Went by
a- Sparklin* — Amenities of Life — A World of Misinformation — Elo-
quence of Silence — Striking a Snag — Photographically Exact —
Plank Side-walks ........... 285

CHAPTER
A THT7MB-PBIOT AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
Mutinous language — The Dead-house — Cast-iron German and Flexible
English— A Dying Man's Confession — I am Bound and Gagged _
I get Myself Freer— I Begin my Search — The Man with one Thumb-
Bed Paint and White Paper — He Dropped on his Knees — Fright and