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deer in this country for every hog in Georgia plenty of large fat wild hogs and cows plenty of wolves panthers and bears in the interior l\lillions of buffalo and wild horses and as to fowls I sit at camp and sec gangs of Brants & 10 miles long Brants are a species of the goose and and a person not acquainted with them would take them to be geese there is also plenty of geese ducks Sandhill cranes and all other kind of cranes and the Filikin with a biJI nearly as long as your arm in fact this is the greatest place of fowls & Birds of all kinds that I have ever seen - the Rivers and Creeks are full of almost all kinds of fish .Mullet Trout pearch flounder Red fish Cat fish Sheeps Head with thousands of others that I know no name for the Coast also abounds with all kinds of Shell fish in the greatest profussion give me bread in this country and I can live hunting with my gun & fish Hook. Cows and Hogs grow to an enormous size here the milk cows as large as the largest oxen that I e,•er saw in Georgia. - I look a file of men and went after meat a few days past we killed four wild hogs about 2 years old that averaged 250 pounds net.-The range for cows and hogs must 1'e good for fifty years hence they require no more feeding than will keep them from going wild, Northern Horses will not do as well here. Except great care is taken of them the first year but mules do extremely well - I feel proud that I have come to Texas although I may fall through in my calculations notwithstanding the society is Bad I had rather live here than any other part of the world I have ever seen. It would suit Robt. Crittenden to a fraction. Let me entreat you not lo neglect writin to me for to receive a letter from home would be the next greatest pleasure to being there also tell my friends that I would be more than happy to receive a letter from anybody in Georgia. Please Direct your letter to me at Matagorda Cove of Col. Fannin you will have to pay postage or they will be stopped in New Orleans please direct aJl letters that you may write me between this and the first of May as above and if - I move from there I will inform you - just got an opportunity this day of - to New Orleans for the letters I - to be - therefor me - ~1y best love lo my mother and Brothers and Sisler and all my friends and relatives. kiss my child for me and do in the name of Everything that is sacred lake good care of her and keep her until I return or as long as you live mine is now a soldiers life and as such quite uncertain But I am contending in a glorious cause and will never disgrace the cause or sullic the name of a
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