All the houses along the way were built of logs.

The inhabitants were a large breed for the most part, tall and angular, dressed sometimes in buckskin, coonskin caps.

Now and then I saw a hunter carrying a long rifle.

The wild geese were flying....
Some of the passengers were dressed in jeans; others in linsey-woolsey dyed blue.

As we stopped along the way I had an opportunity to study the faces of the Illinoisians.