MEXICAN DEMANDS, er 
to discuss), the act was evidently the pi 
tion of the Santa Fé caravan, of which a con- 
siderable portion were Americans. Had he 
left the Texans with their arms, he would doubt- 
less have been accused by the traders of es- 
corting them to the threshold of danger, and 
then delivering them over to certain destruc- 
tion, when he had it in his power to secure 
their safety 
Capt. Cook with his command soon after 
returned to the United States,* and with him 
some forty of the disarmed Texans, many of 
whom have been represented as gentlemen 
worthy of a better destiny. A large portion 
of the Texans steered directly home from the 
Arkansas river; while from sixty to seventy 
men, who elected Warfield their commander, 
were organized for the pursuit and capture of 
the caravan, which had already passed on 
some days in advance towards Santa Fé. 
They pursued in the wake of the traders, it is 
said, as far as the Point of Rocks (twenty 
miles east of the crossing of the Colorado or 
Canadian), but made no atttempt upon them 
—whence they returned direct to Texas. 
Thus terminated the ‘Second Texan Santa 
Fé Expedition, as it has been styled; and 
dis ante uth detian fee eesti sft) be Tcke n> 
the 
torship of the region beyond our boundary may be settled), where- 
by the armies of either might aia range upon this 
~ desert, as ships of war upon 
