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INDIANOLA 
CHAPTER 11. 
INDIANOLA TO SAN ANTONIO. 
Preparations for the Start — Breaking mules — ^La Salle and its early History 
— Prosperity of Indianola — Commencement of Survey — Eoute to Vic- 
toria — Shoeing mules — Encampment in grove — Military drilling — 
Elourishing condition of Victoria — Primitive legal proceedings — DiflS- 
culties of navigating Espiritu Santo Bay — Description of surrounding 
country — Mexican ranch — Observance of the Sabbath — Justice dis- 
pensed in the matter of a calf — Goliad, its early history and ruins — 
Massacre of prisoners after the battle of Perdida Creek — Leave Goliad 
— ^Murder of a Mexican by a teamster — Arrival at San Antonio — 
Another murder — Preparations for crossing the Plains — ^Description 
of San Antonio — Alamo — ^Mission Churches. 
Since the arrival of the Commission, all parties had 
been busily occupied in getting ready to move into 
the interior ; and those only who have had experience 
in fitting out a large train of wagons for a journey 
across the prairies, or to California, can form an ade- 
quate idea of the preparations required. If the route 
were a settled one, or if settlements were to be met 
with, even at distances of a hundred miles apart, 
where supplies could be procured and repairs made, 
much of the labor necessary on setting out, and a vast 
deal that is required on the way, might be dispensed 
with. At this place it was not necessary to complete 
