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: 58
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LIVFE OF BENJAMIN LUNDY.
away. A plain which we crossed is the most remarkable
of the kind that I ever saw. It is the high table-land
between the Nueces and the Rio Grande, otherwise
called the Rio Bravo lel Norte. At dark we encamped
near a mesquite bush, there being none large enough
for us to (et under. So we slept in the open air, exposed
to a very heavy dew.
12th. This morning we were a long time in finding
our horses, which had strayed away, in consequence of
the grass being so young and short as to afford them
scanty picking. At ten o'clock we came in sight of the
river Bravo, and soon after of the town of Rio Grande,
situated on the Bravo, 183 miles from Bexar. Just before
we crossed the river, two Mexicans who had been
hunting wild horses, arrived at the ford. They were the
first human beings that we had seen since the mail carriers
that we met on the ninth, the day after leaving
Bexar. In the town of Rio Grande, we saw a large cypress,
and many peccan, fig, mulberry, willow and hackberry
trees. The population of the place, as I should
judge, amounts, at the least, to twelve or fifteen hundred
persons. They are good looking people-many of them
very light coloured. We did not alight in the town, as
Rubideau was in haste to continue our journey, and I
had been told that not an individual in the place could
speak English of such sort as would be intelligible to me.
Having proceeded three miles further, we encamped for
the night under an umbrageous live-oak.
On the 13th we set off at day-break, and went twentyone
miles to a ranche. There we saw a great quantity
of land occupied as a stock farm, all of which was irrigated,
and all destitute of fences. We saw on the place,
watermelons, large patches of Indian corn, forty or fifty
young kids. and large numbe s of all kinds of domestic
animals. At noon we came to a village of forty or fifty
houses, all built of sun-burnt bricks. Here we stopped
for the remainder of the day to rest our horses. At the
house of our host, we found smart looking people and
handsome young women, but neither table nor chairs.
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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/m1/56/?q=american+indian: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.