length gained the plain and place of meeting, where I found my companion waiting for me. We then ascended the San Antonio river about one mile, where we found a place that was fo1·dable. I-lav- ing crossed, we descended an Indian trail lea.ding to the North, the same that I came in upon a few weeks before. Our course led us in the direction of the Guad- aloupe river, where we arrived the following day. Herc for the first time, my companion informed me of his inability to swim. Setting my ingenuity to work, I soon constructed a raft of rails an<l other trash that I found upon the bank, sufficiently large to float him across, and making a line fast to it, I took one end between my teeth, plunged into the river, and swam to the other shore, towing him after me. In like man- ner we crossed the Colorado also. My knowledge of the country enabled me to avoi<l all public roads. Our journey lecl us through extensive prairies, and some- times almost impenetrable forests. On the eleventh clay, having traveled about one hundrc<l and fifty miles, we accidentally fell in with a soldier, who had just returned from the battle of Jacinto. Here I was informed of the joyful news of the capture of General Santa Anna. Our means of subsistence, during the time of our flight, consisted of a few 1·atio11s of bread that I had saved, and two small pigs found nt deserted houses on our way. Continuing our journey, we found ourselves at Velasco, the present scat of government,
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