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xiv Dissolved partnership with Rozier.

Various business ventures in Louisville, Hendersonville, and St. Genevieve, Kentucky, again at Hendersonville, thence again to Louisville.

Abandoned business career. Became taxidermist in Cincinnati.

Left Cincinnati. Began to form definite plans for the publication of his drawings. Returned to New Orleans.

Went to Natchez by steamer. Gunpowder ruined two hundred of his drawings on this trip. Obtained position of Drawing-master in the college at Washington, Mississippi. At the close of this year took his first lessons in oils.

Went to Philadelphia to get his drawings published. Thwarted. There met Sully, and Prince Canino.