Whoever has seen a flock of hungry pigeons, in the spring, alight on the leaf-covered ground, beneath a forest, and apply the busy powers of claw and beak to obtain a share of the hidden acorns that may be scratched up from beneath, may form some just notion of the pressing hurry and bustle that marked life in this place.

The enhanced price that everything bore was one of the results of this sudden influx of consumers and occupants.
[Footnote 15: This officer fell at the battle of Ochechubby, in Florida, as colonel of the sixth infantry, gallantly leading his men to battle.] _8th_.

I went to rest last night with the heavy murmuring sound of the falls in my ears, broken at short intervals by the busy thump-thump-thump of the Indian drum; for it is to be added, to the otherwise crowded state of the place, that the open grounds and river-side greens of the village, which stretch along irregularly for a mile or two, are filled with the lodges of visiting Indian bands from the interior.

The last month of spring and the early summer constitute, in fact, a kind of carnival for the natives.

It is at this season that the traders, who have wintered in the interior, come out with their furs to the frontier posts of St.Mary's, Drummond Island, and Michilimackinack, to renew their stocks of goods.