176 . NOTES TAKEN. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
FLAT ROCK CREEK TO CLEAR FORK OF THE BRAZOS. 
Camp in flames.—Hot weather—Great. change.--Accident to Train —Jacobs 
leaves.—Jackson the Delaware.—First Camanches met.—Description of Ke- 
tum-e-see and wives.—Talk held—Camp at Double Mountain Fork.—Chief 
and wives leave.——Large Cactus met with—Reach the Clear Fork.—Stem’s 
_ Rancho.—Indian Justice—Camp on Clear Fork. 
Avoust 9th.—We marched early and left our late pleasant 
camp in flames behind us. The tall rye and rank grass 
made a fierce and rapid conflagration, which for days after- 
wards we could trace by the smoke on the horizon. 
’ The day proved most intensely hot, and to our disappoint- 
ment water was very scarce on our route. About noon, a 
pool of tepid water was discovered in a ravine, and as the 
prairie had been very much broken, making hard work for 
the oxen, many of which gave out, and one dropped dead, 
“the Captain concluded to halt and encamp until next 
morning. We camped upon a hill very hot and dry, and had 
scarcely got settled when the prairie took fire, and was 
extinguished with difficulty, making warm work for a hot 
day. : 
The contrast to our stay at Flat Rock Creek was far from 
pleasant, but we had become so accustomed to take it (to use 
a trite expression,) rough and tumble, that our spirits were 
