11s - NOTES TAKEN. 
CHAPTER X. 
COTTONWOOD SPRING TO DIVIDING RIDGE. 
Leave the road.—Description of country ‘from Red River.--Stock raising in 
Texas—Buck killed—Indian cookery.—Deseription of Blaffs—Kickapoo 
_ grave.—Cactus s 
Rayines.—Black Flies. —Cross Crater—Snakes shot.—Arrive at Little Witch- * 
- ita—Mesquite Grass —Indian signs——Manner of lariating.—Valley of Witch- 
ita.—Fine scenery on the Plains.—Antelope killed —Anxiety about Horses.— 
Jackass Rabbit killed.—Breezes on the Plains.—Exploring Party leave—Ar- 
rive at branch of Big Witchita—Repairing Wagons.—Intense weather.— 
Effect of the — —Oxen =e —Reach the Little Witchita—Ex- 
—Reach ihe Divide 
Jory 16th—So far we had had the advantage of the 
military road from Fort Washita to assist us with our heavy 
train. We had now to leave this and striking into the vast 
plains which compose unexplored Texa8, to travel entirely 
by compass, make our own roads, and trust to the state of 
the case for water, grass, and whatever else might be neces- 
sary to accomplish the objects of our expedition. 
From Red River to this point, nothing can surpass the 
facilities of the country for stock-raising, sufficient to mark 
Texas as the great stock-yard of our country in the future. 
The same advantages prevail here that exist in those 
countries where stock-raising is followed as a business, and 
will attain the same results. 
