Daily, when the poor wretches look at the rising sun, or are unreasonable enough to feel a want of something to eat and drink--daily, from morn to eve, their favorite occupation is to curse the land-shark who took their money from them for transport, land, and improvements, and brought them into this district, which is under water two months in the year, and for the ten others more like a tough kind of pap than any thing else.

Now the men who have pointed out to them this dirty way into heaven are no other than my agents and colleagues, so that I, Fritz Fink, am the lucky man upon whom every imprecation there is in German and Irish falls all the day long.

I send off all who are able to walk about, and have to feed the inhabitants of my hospital with Indian corn and Peruvian bark.

As I write this, three naked little Paddies are creeping about my floor, their mother having so far forgotten her duty as to leave them behind her, and I enjoy the privilege of washing and combing the frog-like little abominations.

A pleasant occupation for my father's son! I don't know how long I shall have to stick here; probably till the very last of the set is dead.
"Meanwhile I have fallen out with my partners in New York.