136 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
received by the new comers, as a man with knowledge and 
experience of the country. He went with them to Comal 
Creek and when the city of Neu Braunfels was founded here 
in the spring of the following year, renouncing all other claims 
to land, he asked of Prince Solms for himself a spot of ground, 
small and worthless, but charmingly situated upon the steep 
bank of the incomparably beautiful Comal Creek, and here 
he built a little cabin and began now, with more leisure and 
convenience than he had ever before enjoyed in Texas, to 
explore systematically the rich and, for the most part, still 
unknown flora of the country around him. 
“He was soon convinced, however, that he could not col- 
lect plants effectively and at the same time conduct his do- 
mestic affairs properly, however simple they might be. If, 
for example, he returned home of an evening all tired out with 
plant-collecting, he still found it necessary to prepare his own 
supper; if he tore his clothing among the thick bushes of the 
river forest, he himself must take up his needle and thread 
and repair the damage; if he needed a clean shirt, he had to 
go down to the river and wash it. He chose the right means 
to thoroughly remove all these inconveniences of his lonely 
bachelorhood. He sought for himself a consort and found 
her in a daughter of one of the recently arrived immigrants. 
The cabin on the Comal* has proven sufficiently large for 
two and everything goes on therein aecording to wish, though 
in primitive simplicity.” 
This account by Roemer, though inaccurate in some par- 
ticulars, represents fairly well the difficulties under which 
Lindheimer labored at this time in the midst of his botanical 
work. He was married to Eleonore Reinarz of Aachen at 
San Antonio in 1846, and two sons and two daughters re- 
sulted from this union, all of whom are still alive. 
Lindheimer and Roemer made many botanical excursions 
together during 1846 and the value of the latter’s collections 
* Though a new and more commodious home was later erected beside 
the “‘cabin on the Comal” to meet the exigencies of an increasing family, 
this little log hut of pioneer days long remained as the oldest building in 
New Braunfels. The accompanying picture is from an aquarelle by Mr, 
Henry E. Peipers, a son-in-law of Lindheimer; copied by permission, 
