Excerpt from Canada, From the Lakes to the Gulf: The Country, Its People, Religions, Politics, Rulers, and Its Apparent Future; Being a Compendium of Travel Through the Upper and Lower Provinces IN April, 1880, I laid back in a comfortable chair at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, whilst a negro boy was energetically endeavoring to put de Crescent City polish on de shoeses, prior to my rambling at the Lake-end and around Spanish Fort. Whilst the boy was thus occupiedi fell'into a reverie, and my mind seemed fully occupied in trying to decide upon which route to take during the long summer months now 'fast approaching. Whilst still men tally cogitating, the porter, an acquaintance with whom I had become tolerably familiar, soon brought me to a deci sion, for, said he: Say, Captain, so they say you're goin away, so you are which way are you goin? Well, Phelim, I answered, I expect to go north, through Alabama, Geor gia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois, to Chicago; then possibly through Michigan, and perhaps into Canada. Oh, bedad, said Phelim, are you goin 'wid thim Kanucks? That reminds me whm I wuz there, in '65, wid Gineral o'naille, how we loike to hev' tuck the whole eunthry frum thim. This remark decided me, and in a few days I was en route for Canada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.