A Government boat distributes oil and pays wages once a month.
The Ship Island region was as woodsy and tenantless as ever.

The island has ceased to be an island; has joined itself compactly to the main shore, and wagons travel, now, where the steamboats used to navigate.

No signs left of the wreck of the 'Pennsylvania.' Some farmer will turn up her bones with his plow one day, no doubt, and be surprised.
We were getting down now into the migrating negro region.

These poor people could never travel when they were slaves; so they make up for the privation now.

They stay on a plantation till the desire to travel seizes them; then they pack up, hail a steamboat, and clear out.