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closed my eyes, passed off. The warriors at 
length, bounding to their feet and preparing with 
much bustling preparation to commence the ad¬ 
ventures of another day, to end—I knew not 
where. 
The second day of the march, about mid-day, 
we reached a wide river (I have since learned it 
was the upper Rio Grande, separating that por¬ 
tion of Mexico in which we were captured from 
the vague and unknown region of country dis¬ 
tinguished on the map of northwestern Texas as 
the Presido). Here we were subjected to con¬ 
siderable delay. There was a large number of 
animals to be crossed over, besides a great 
amount of what they regarded, and which in 
fact was valuable plunder. 
At the point of the river where we reached 
it was a low, long, gravelly beach, a high, per¬ 
pendicular rocky bluff directly opposite, but a 
mile below the bluff was another gravelly beach, 
almost precisely similar to the one at which we 
had arrived, and opposite that and btlow us was 
likewise a high bluff, so that in crossing it was 
necessary to move in a diagonal direction, as 
well as a long distance. The usual labor was 
expended, and the usual means resorted to in 
passing the drove, which, in consequence of the 
low water extending from the opposite beaches, 
left only the main channel a distance, perhaps, 
of a hundred yards to be swum. When it came 
our turn to take passage the blind folds were 
removed, and each was seated in a little buffalo 
skin boat, an invention, original I believe with 
the Camanche tribes, and capable of being taken 
apart, folded into a small compass and carried 
as baggage. To the bow of these boats were 
hitched one end of a hair rope, the other to the 
tails of our mules, who safely ferried us from 
shore to shore. 
That night we encamped at the foot of a moun¬ 
tain, and the whole of the next day traveled, as 
near as I could judge, over a steep, rough and 
uneven road. During the entire trip I was sub¬ 
jected to the same annoyances of being run 
under trees, burned with hot horse flesh, and 
staked down at night as described above. 
Early in the afternoon of the fourth day the 
warriors raised the war whoop, and afar off 
was heard another war whoop in reply. As we 
advanced, over what appeared to me a smooth 
plain, the answering voices grew more and more 
distinct, until finally the approaching parties met 
and intermingled.' Having halted, I was taken 
from the mule, and when allowed the liberty of 
my eyes, found myself and companions standing 
together, in the midst of a great number of tents, 
and surrounded by five or six hundred men, all 
pushing forward to catch a glimpse of 11s. 
Some little time elapsed, when the crowd gave 
way, forming a passage, through which advanced 
the leader of the war party, accompanied by an 
aged chief and a squaw, the latter, the only one 
of her sex then anywhere to be seen. Having 
reached us, the watch was produced and handed 
to me, with signs indicating they wished me to 
exhibit its marvelous qualities. 
It became me now to put forth all my histrionic 
powers, and to feign emotions far different from 
the real ones that were struggling in my bosom. 
My object was to take advantage of their cre¬ 
dulity and superstition to establish among them 
the notion that it was a thing of life—a spiritual 
medium, having powers of speech—through which 
their chiefs and prophets, and great warriors, 
who had gone to the land of spirits, could con¬ 
verse in a language perfectly intelligible to me, 
but utterly incomprehensible to them; to indoc¬ 
trinate them into the solemn belief that my old 
“turnip,” as I usually called it, was no less than 
the brother or offspring of the sun, and on such 
intimate and familiar terms with him, that it 
could fortell through me the precise moment he 
would reach any given point in the heavens, and 
that such was the unity of feeling existing be¬ 
tween them, that the short hand of the watch, in 
its lesser sphere, kept corresponding pace with 
him as he went round and round the world. 
Finally, and most especially, to imbue their minds 
with the importance and solemnity of this one 
great truth, that connected as the watch and my¬ 
self were, both with the visible and invisible 
world, any mishap that should befall either would 
inevitably disarrange the machinery of universal 
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