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of Texas with his party and hunt until the council in August, which I gave him requesting the Citizens to suffer them to pass unmolested so long as they conducted themselves in a peaceful manner. On Monday the 15th all things being in readiness I started for the prairies, after having en- countered much difficulty in crossing Tehuacana Creek on ac- count of the overflow and danger of wetting our goods, we en- camped, having ridden about twenty miles, at this encampment we were detained three days owing to incessant rains- On the 21st encampment again stationary, our hunters killing buffalo. we were entirely out of Meat, towards evening one of thP hunters returned and reported having met two indians supposed to be Waco with nine horses, thinking they were probably some that had been stolen from the falls of the Brazos I dispatched A-cab-quash with some Delaware to overtake and invite them to our camp they returned however without success. the indians probably having become alarmed and fled. On the 23d passed and encamped above the "Comanche Peak" about one hundred and forty miles from the settlement. our progress having been thus slow on account of the great weight of the Indians' packs and their un- willingness to travel over fifteen or eighteen miles a day. On the 24th Jim Shaw informed me that a difference of opinion existed between Conner and him- self as to the locality of the Caddo tribes of indians and proposed moving camp about six miles and sending runners both up the Brazos and Trinity to look for them that we might be correctly advised before traveling farther. To this I dissented telling Shaw that my instructions from your Excellency were to pro- ceed directly to the Comanche at the place designated by him a11d the Comanche Chiefs for a meeting, and that I did not wish to visit the different villages unless they were in our route and that he would therefore guide us direct to the "two Mountains" on the Brazos where he stated when in Washington that he had agreed to meet the chief. To this Shaw replied that he was not certain the Comanche were there, that they might either have gone to Matamoros or be upon the head waters of the Canadian and that his horses and packs would not stand the trip to go to the place designated on the Brazos, and not finding the Co-
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