The magnolia trees, too, are becoming fragrant.
"March 31.

We are at length in New Orleans, and up three flights at the St.Charles, in a dark room.
"The peculiarities of the city dawn upon me very slowly.

I first noticed the showy dress of the children, then the turbaned heads of the black women in the streets, and next the bouquet-selling boys with their French phrases.
"April 3.

This morning we went to a slave market.

It looked on first entrance like an intelligence office.