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ness — The Devil's River again — Old Hut and terrible Recollections — 
Character of the Country farther to the East — Abundant Game — Mili- 
tary Station — First Settlement on the Road — Return to Civilization — 
Stay at San Antonio — German Settlement on the Upper Guadalupe — 
Sudden Rise of Texan Rivers — Dangerous Adventure — Indianola — Re- 
turn to New York . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 404 
BOOK III. 
JOURNEY FROM TEXAS TO CALIFORNIA, &c. 
CHAPTER I. 
From New York to San Antonio — New Orleans — Galveston and Port Lavaca 
after the Epidemic — Journey to San Antonio — News from the Camp — 
Sickness among the Mules — Rattlesnake Bites, and a Poisonous Caterpillar 
— A Fight, and American Opinion on it — Neighbourhood of San Antonio 
— Climate in the Winter — The River and its Sources — Subterranean 
Watercourses in Western Texas — Changes in the Physical Geography of 
the Country — Adventures of a young German — Prince Bonaparte — Re- 
miniscences of Texan Desperadoes . . . . . . . . 431 
CHAPTER II. 
The Author returns to the Coast — Money-Transport on the Matagorda Bay — 
"A Norther," and an Opportunity of getting warm in it — Starting of 
the Caravan from Port Lavaca — Fragment of the Author's Diary, Charac- 
terizing a Texan Journey by Freight- Waggons — Arrival of the Caravan 
at San Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442 
CHAPTER III. 
Journey from San Antonio to El Paso — Appearance of Trap in the Limestone 
— A Suspicious-looking Hermit — A Tanko Indian — A warm ' Norther ' 
— Fossil Fish — Geese and Pelicans — Turkeys, Eagles, and Beavers — 
Meeting with Friends on the Pecos — Human Skeletons — Road to El Paso 
— Fire in the Prairie — Warm Wind, Dust, and Electric Sparks — Elec- 
trical Phenomena — Snow Storm — Valleys and Defiles of the Limpias — 
Limpia Porphyry — Harmony in the Physiognomy of Nature — Meeting 
with Apaches — Alamos de San Juan — A Human Corpse — Scenery on 
the Summit of the Plateau — Hardships of Travelling — The Dead Man's 
Hole — Metalliferous Veins — Eagle Mountains and Eagle Spring — Yucca- 
wood — The Rio Grande — A Rocky Defile — Gypsum Formation in the 
Alluvial Masses — Arrival at the Settlements — San Eleazario — Socorro, 
Ysleta, and El Paso 451 
