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not yet described. He took with him as sole 

 companion of his travels James B. Clement, one 

 of the men about the place, in whom he had — and 

 most justly — perfect confidence. He was in 

 Texas many months, travelling quite extensively, 

 and at a time when the Indians were not friendly. 

 Even more danger might be apprehended from the 

 white men of desperate character, who had drifted 

 to that region either to escape punishment for 

 previous crimes, or to find themselves so far from 

 law and order that they could commit fresh ones 

 in safety. It was on this trip that my father met 

 Colonel Hays, well known then as "Jack Hays the 

 Texan Ranger," between whom and himself a 

 strong friendship was formed, and to whom my 

 father felt much indebted ; as, knowing the country 

 so well. Colonel Hays gave him valuable aid in 

 choosing routes, selecting Indians as guides and 

 hunters, and in avoiding camps and settlements 

 where he would certainly have been robbed, and 

 possibly murdered, had he offered to protect his 

 possessions, for at that time all money had to be 

 carried in coin. 



Upon this journey my father was very successful 

 in securing specimens. When he returned he 

 brought one of his hunters, a half-breed Indian 

 named Henry Clay, a name which had probably 

 been given to him in jest. This man was my 

 father's shadow; he was very skillful in the care of 



