A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879. Page: 314 of 859
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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
started for San Miguel. They had heard that Howland and
his companions had been taken prisoners, but did not doubt
that when the authorities understood the peaceful objects
of the mission, all would be well. In this they were sadly
mistaken.
It seems unaccountably strange, that the Texans, after
the experience of 1836, should have acted with so little
caution. Although they heard that the Governor was hostile
to their enterprise, no word was sent back either to
M'Leod, or to the more advanced party at Anton Chico.
When Kendall and his party arrived at a small village
called Cuesta, they were met by a party of Mexicans, under
Don Salezar, a military officer. The men were disarmed,
and their papers arid valuables taken from them, with the
assurance, however, that they would soon all be returned.
Disarmed and robbed, they were marched as prisoners into
San Miguel. Howland and his party, for an attempt, or an
alleged attempt, to escape, were barbarously shot. In the
meantime, it was observed that Lewis was becoming quite
intimate with the Mexican officers. The result was, that
Lewis, one of their trusted officers, turned traitor, and plotted
the capture of the party at Anton Chico, with Cooke,
and those with M'Leod, who was then at the Laguna Colorado,
some forty miles distant. These unfortunate men,
after being disarmed and plundered, were tied in compainies
of four and six, and marched first to San MIiguel,
thence to Santa Fe, and finally to the city of Mexico, and
confined in the prisons of St. Jago, Puebla, a'nd Perote,
where they languished for nearly two years. A few, at the
solicitation of influential friends, were released; and among
them, Kendall, the historian of the expedition. Senor
Navarro, however, being an object of special hostility, was
confined in the castle of San Juan D'Ulloa, until the revolution
of 1844, when he, too, was set at liberty. Mlr. Kendall
gives the following reasons for the failure of the expedition:
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/314/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .