The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti Page: 36
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36 LIFE OF BENJAMIN LUNDY.
but he now says that complaint was made about myself,
a deck passenger, occupying a place that the cabin
p.issengers wished to appropriate to themselves. He
is, in fact, an impudent drunken fellow.
19th. The boat lay-to at the shore until 8 o'clock,
A. M., enabling me to take a short ramble on shore.
No settlement was near.* The soil here is exceedingly
riclh. There are innumerable vines, and a profusion of
long dangling moss, every where in the woods. I saw
some rocks, all of which were of a kind that I was
before unacquainted with. 20th. We are said to be
six or eight miles below Brazoria. The soil continues
black on the surface, with a reddish, or in some places
a whitish loam beneath. It is all alluvial, no rocks
being perceptible. The banks of the river are of the
perpendicular height of ten or twelve feet above the
water. We heard, in the night, the cry of a panther,
on the opposite side of the river. 21st. At about 2
P. M., we formed a party, consisting of two gentlemen,
a lady and her son, and myself, to leave the vessel and
walk by land to Brazoria, a distance of three and a half
miles. The live oak is here the monarch of the forest.
One that we saw was six or seven feet in diameter near
its roots. They spread out in branches not far from the
ground, and are very umbrageous. After a wet and
muddy walk, in the course of which we saw a grape
vine six inches in diameter, we reached Brazoria at
about four o'clock. The population of this place is
about one hundred and fifty, of whom a very few are
mechanics; but there are plenty of lawyers and doctors.
The cholera prevails here at present to an alarming
extent. 24th. The schooner, which we left two days
since, arrived to-day, and I made sale of some things
tliat I could not take along in my contemplated journey.
* The description of the soil and face of the country were
note(l by Lun(ldy with a view to publishing the results of his
observations for the information of settlers.
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Lundy, Benjamin. The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti, book, 1847; Philadelphia. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33004/m1/34/?q=american+indian: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.