In London as Ambassador--I cross the ocean--François Tulloch--Christopher Columbus--Camoëns--The Azores--The isle of Graciosa--Sports on board ship--The isle of Saint-Pierre--The shores of Virginia--Sunset--Danger and escape--I land in America--Baltimore--The passengers separate--Tulloch--Philadelphia--General Washington--Comparison of Washington and Bonaparte--Journey from Philadelphia to New York and Boston--Mackenzie--The Hudson River--Song of the lady passenger--Mr. Swift--I set out for the Falls of Niagara with a Dutch guide--M. Violet--My savage outfit--Hunting--Wolverine and Canadian Fox--Musk-rat--Fishing dogs--Insects--Montcalm and Wolfe--Encampment on the shore of the Onondaga Lake--Arabs--The Indian woman and her cow--An Iroquois--The Onondaga chief--Velly and the Franks--Ceremonies of hospitality--The ancient Greeks--Journey from the Onondaga Lake to the Genesee River--Clearings--Hospitality--My bed--The enchanted rattle-snake--Niagara Falls--The rattle-snake--I fall to the edge of the abyss--Twelve days in a hut--Change of manners among the savages--Birth and death--Montaigne-Song of the adder--The little Indian girl, the original of Mila--Incidents--Old Canada--True civilisation spread by religion--False civilisation introduced by commerce--Traders--Agents--Hunts--Half-breeds or Burnt-woods--Wars of the companies--The Indian languages dying out--The old French possessions in America--Regrets--A note from Lord François Conyngham--The Canadian lakes--A fleet of Indian canoes--The American rivers--Legends--Muscogulges and Siminoles--Our camp--Two Floridan beauties--Ruins on the Ohio--What the Muscogulge damsels were--Arrest of the King at Varennes--I interrupt my journey to go back to Europe--Dangers for the United States--Return to Europe--Shipwreck. One-and-thirty years after embarking, as a simple sub-lieutenant, for America, I embarked for London with a passport conceived in these terms: "Pass His Lordship the Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Peer of France, Ambassador of the King to His Britannic Majesty," and so on.