Purchase of horses and cattle--Backwoods hospitality--The wolf and the sheep--"Salting" cattle--Elbow-room in the woods--"Westward Ho!"--Farming in the Backwoods--"Chicken fixings"--Rail-fence making--Mutual secrets--The deer-calf--Success of the ruse--The arrival of the cattle--Treachery discovered--Bertha's fears--The Mulatto's sudden appearance--The abduction completed--The Serpentine water-course--Narrow escape from discovery--The pursuers at fault--The last gleam of hope 211-249 CHAPTER VIII. THE MOUTH OF THE BIG HALCHEE. The shores of the Mississippi--Girdling--Settlers' errors--New mode of banking--Settlements by communities--Schwarz's plans--Wood-carrying on the "go-ahead" principle--A backwoods "river"--A Mississippi steamer captain--American hospitality--The landing--An unexpected discovery 250-268 CHAPTER IX. TREACHERY WITHIN TREACHERY. Normann's suspicions awakened--The Yankee's escape--The pursuit--The deliverance--Suspense--Bertha restored to her father--An unpleasant recognition--The mulatto's escape--Death struggle on the Mississippi--The return to the settlement 269-290 CHAPTER X. THE MIGRATION. A new home--The old bachelor--A ride through the woods--The deserted pastor--The break up of the colony--The pastor's removal--Bringing home the bride--Two households arranged--The fortunes of some of the colonists--Conclusion 291-310 THE WANDERINGS AND FORTUNES OF SOME GERMAN EMIGRANTS. CHAPTER I. THE SEA VOYAGE. The majority of the intending passengers by the new and smart bark, the "Hoffnung," Commander Wellbach, bound for New York, were assembled at Meier's, the host of the Hull Arms Tavern, in the ancient Hanse-town of Bremen, prior to their departure, to hear the laws read, which had been drawn up by a committee chosen by themselves, from among their leading men, and to subscribe these laws. They related not only to the voyage across the ocean, but also to the proceedings of the Emigrants on their arrival in their new home, and were intended, as the preamble expressed it, "to unite firmly the Emigrants in a band of friendship for the attainment of _one_ great object."