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NELSON LEE’S SILVER WATCH. 
[From “Three Years Among the Comanches.” By Nel¬ 
son Lee, a Texas Ranger, 1885.] 
We made our headquarters at first at San 
Patricio, on the Nueces, thirty miles above Cor¬ 
pus Christi. Before commencing operations, 
Aikens and myself visited New Orleans, where 
we purchased arms, ammunition, blankets, sad¬ 
dles, tents; in fine, an outfit sufficient to furnish 
twenty-seven men, the number of which our 
company, proprietors and subordinates, con¬ 
sisted. While picking up these supplies, I dis¬ 
covered accidentally one day a large silver watch 
of such unusual and extraordinary dimensions as 
to attract attention. My curiosity being excited 
I requested of the shop keeper the privilege of 
examining it, and found it to be an alarm watch, 
one, likewise, that would make a far louder and 
longer racket than any I had ever before seen. 
It could be regulated so as to “go off” at any re¬ 
quired moment, and so powerful was its interna! 
machinery, it would move across a common table 
while ringing the alarm. It occurred to me that 
such an article would be of signal service on our 
proposed trip, and I, fortunately, purchased it 
at an expense of forty-five dollars. I am thus 
particular, for the reason, as the reader will 
hereafter see, that this watch has been closely 
connected with my destiny, and to it I am in¬ 
debted for life and liberty this day. 
Returned to San Patricio we hired nineteen 
assistants. The agreement we entered into with 
each of them was that he should accompany us 
on the trip to California, rendering such services 
as circumstances reasonably required, and re¬ 
maining with us until the drove was sold, in con¬ 
sideration of which he was to receive his horse 
and eauipage and fifty dollars in money. In 
order that their unhappy fate may be known, 
should this volume fall into the hands of any 
of their surviving friends or relatives, I here 
insert their names, with such limited informa¬ 
tion relative to their antecedents as I possess: 
They were Henry Hall, brother of Robert, one 
of the company, a lad about seventeen years of 
age; Andrew Jones, from Mississipoi; Benjamin 
Howard, formerly of Mobile; William and John 
Haynes, brothers; Peter Shaw, of New Brauns- 
fels; William Hand, of Corpus Christi; Barney 
Campbell and Peter Hickey, both Irishmen from 
New Orleans; Augustus and Adolphus Voss, 
cousins, from Victoria; Walter Scott, from some 
town on the Trinity River; Andrew Hempstead, 
a French Canadian; John Adams, from Philadel¬ 
phia; Amos Sand, an eccentric Yankee, hailing 
from New England, and Amos Jordan, an Eng¬ 
lishman. Besides these sixteen we had en¬ 
gaged three Mexicans to act in the capacity of 
horse breakers. They were Juan Gazzier, of 
Corpus Christi; Antonio de Silva, of Saltillo, 
and Martinez Ferrarez, of Matamoras. 
With this company, well mounted, and four¬ 
teen pack mules, we left San Patricio and set out 
directly for the city of Matamoras. Our plan 
of operations was to start northward from this 
point, collecting our drove as we advanced. This 
was in March, a month in which vegetation is 
rank near the mouth of the Rio Grande, and it 
was further our intention to proceed leisurely, 
keeping within the latitude of its healthy growth; 
in other words, to use a familiar expression in 
that quarter, especially among those engaged in 
similar enterprises, “to follow the grass.” From 
the adjacent ranches, as we moved along, passing 
to the left of the river towns, we collected such 
animals as we deemed advisable to purchase, so 
that on our arrival at San Fernando, a frontier 
town some forty miles westward of Fort Dun¬ 
can, our means were exhausted, and our drove 
had increased to the number of three hundred and 
ninety-five. From San Fernando we moved for¬ 
ward, leaving civilization behind us at the little 
settlement of San Augusta, and pushed on di’i- 
gently in the direction of Paso del Norte, aim¬ 
ing to penetrate the gorges of the mountains, 
until we should strike the California trail. We 
traveled slowly, at the average rate of fifteen 
miles a day, it depending entirely upon the dis¬ 
tance between watering and feeding places. At 
none other did we encamp. 
After leaving the settlements, it was our es¬ 
tablished custom to sound the bugle at 3 :30 o’clock 
in the morning. All hands then aroused, some 
