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that he looked a little straight at me, as much as to say, that my
seat should be offered to him. I finished my breakfast and had
taken my seat on some scantling out ashore. The old Captain was
in conversation with Captain Butler, and the hands had all gone to
work close by. The 'Id fellow came out to, look around and turned
to me and said, "Bring the yawl. I want to cross the basin." I with-
out moving called on Jimmy to bring the yawl. The captain very
sternly said, "I ordered you, sir, to do it." I nodded that I under-
stood it so, and replied, "And I order Jimmy to do it." By this
time the boat was along side. When he got in and started, he asked
Jimmy who that fellow was, but I lost Jimmy's reply. Captain
Cannon had a gray twinkling eye, was in the neighborhood of fifty
years old, about 5 feet, 6 or 7 inches high, quite fleshy, weighing
about 160, of a florid complexion, fond of his toddy, and quite on
the lethargic order.
We were getting things ready for a start. Many of the immi-
grants had been to look at the "Little Lively." Colonel Austin and
Mr. Hawkins had been gone several days.' We still had not taken
on our provisions, a list of which I brought down from the office of
Captain Rinker. There were six sacks of salt, four barrels of mess
pork, six barrels flour, three barrels Irish potatoes, a small cask of
side bacon, several boxes and barrels of pilot and sea bread, a tierce
of rice and lard, but little of which was put ashore when we landed
at the mouth of the Brazos. We started on the morning, I think,
of the 23rd of November.
The list of the passengers was as follows: The two Lovelaces,
Stephen Holston, Young Phelps, Mr. Harrison, Captain Jennings,
Captain Cannon, Mr. Butler, and myself, making nine in all, to
occupy the cabin, when there were but seven berths. The list of
the other immigrants, as far as I can recollect, was as follows:
Nelson, an engineer from New York, who came out on the "Feli-
ciana"; a Mr. James Beard, fifty years old; Beddinger, a small
man forty years old; Mr. Wilson; Mr. Williams; Mr. Mattigan;
Mr. Thompson, a carpenter; Mr. Willis; William, the servant of
Mr. Harrison; a man named O'Neal; and two or three others
whose names I have forgotten or never knew. Now when they
1Colonel Guy M. Bryan says that Colonel Austin and Mr. Hawkins left
the boat, but Hawkins did not accompany Austin to Natchitoches or to
Texas.
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