162 NOTES TAKEN, 
CHAPTER XII. 
HEAD OF THE BRAZOS TO FLAT ROCK CREEK. 
Halt on the Llano Esctacado—Grand View.—Descend from the plain.—Long 
Singular b of - 
Mesquite Gum.—Kickapoos.—Fish shot.—Manner of spearing fish.—Reached 
our Camp.—Move Camp.—Flat Rock Creek. 
Tue Captain now stopped, to consult about going any 
farther. We had achieved the main point in our trip and 
were all heartily tired and disgusted with so inhospitable 
a country, besides that, the sick man could barely support 
himself upon his horse, and we all felt that to go any farther, 
in uncertainty about water, was to peril the lives of the whole 
party. We decided to return, and turning our horses heads 
east, we commenced our journey back to camp over the plain 
we had just reached. ; 
A ride of six miles, brought us toa precipice bounding 
this plain on the east, and with a sheer descent to the plain 
below of six hundred feet. The view was the most extensive 
and glowing in the sunset, the most striking that we had 
enjoyed during our whole trip, combining the grandeur of 
immense space—the plain extending to the horizon on every 
side from our point of view—with the beauty of the contrast 
