432 GALVESTON AND POET LAVACA. Book III, 
went by " The Black Warrior " steamer, in company with 
Mr. Kaufinann, by way of Havanna to New Orleans, in- 
tending to proceed to the above-mentioned port. We 
reached New Orleans on the morning of the 20th. The 
yellow fever, which had made terrible ravages that year, 
had passed away. On the 23rd, we continued our voyage 
on board the steamer " Mexico," and on the 25th arrived 
in the harbour of Galveston, where I had time to visit 
some acquaintances. Three months before, on my journey 
to New York, I had dined here with ten or eleven young 
Germans, all of whom, but three or four, had been carried 
off by the yellow fever, and I was told that, of fifty 
Germans who had come in the spring, with other emi- 
grants, only three survived. The epidemic had never 
before been so fatal here. It had also exhibited unusual 
symptoms, and was asserted to differ essentially from the 
ordinary yellow fever to which they were accustomed, 
and which was not so much feared. The first autumnal 
north wind checked the ravages of the fever, and from that 
time no new cases appeared ; but the change of weather 
caused the death of most of the patients. 
We landed at Indianola, and immediately jumped into 
the first post-coach going to Port Lavaca. In both places 
the epidemic had raged fiercely, and had interrupted the 
whole trade of the country. Ships had been laid fast in 
port for weeks, for want of men to unload their cargoes ; 
trade was at a stand, and the houses to which cargoes 
were consigned were closed. We found part of our chests 
and bales lying on the shore quite unprotected, and their 
contents much injured. 
We travelled to San Antonio by the post-coach. The 
road was in no better state than on my journey down 
in July, and similar tragi-comic occurrences happened 
