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218 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
by President Mirabeau B. Lamar, who was then anxious to extend
the laws of Texas to the utmost verge of the domain claimed by
his country, namely on the west to the Rio Grande. The military
part of the expedition went out under the command of Gen. Hugh
McLeod who had six captains under him, viz.: "Old Paint" Cald-
well, Sutton, Houghton, Hudson, Strain, and Lewis. There
was also a civil branch of the expedition, and commis-
sioners were sent along to confer with the New Mexican
authorities as to the advisability of throwing off the Mex-
ican yoke and coming under the laws of the Republic of Texas.
Col. Cooke, Dr. R. F. Brenham, and Jose Antonio Navarro were
the commissioners.
Miseries came thick and fast before, and especially after, reach-
ing the confines of New Mexico. Unfortunates who had escaped
death on the alkaline plains of West Texas by starvation and at
the hands of blood-thirsty Indians, met death at the hands of the
brutal governor and military tyrant of New Mexico, Armijo, or
were marched overland to,Mexico, where, loaded with chains, they
were incarcerated in vilest dungeons. Cooke and Navarro did not
escape the latter indignity. Navarro, though a Mexican himself,
was an especial target for the poisoned shafts of malice thrown
by the Mexicans. He was the only member of the expedition still
a prisoner at the time Kendall wrote his Narrative.' (See Vol.
1, page 72, footnote.)
On June 16, 1842, all the Texan prisoners of the Santa F6 Ex-
pedition were released, except Mr. Navarro.2 After Col. Cooke
was released he remained a few days in the City of Mexico at Gen.
Thompson's house, but he soon returned to Texas, and married
1The prisoners were confined in various prisons, Santiago, Acordada,
San Lazaro, Puebla, and Perote. Kendall was for a while confined in the
loathsome lepers' prison (or hospital) of San Lazaro. For a description
of San Lazaro and its inmates at this time see Kendall, The Santa F
Expedition, etc., II 239.
2From a letter dated "Washington [Texas], 15th. Decem., 1844," from
Cooke to his wife, the following is taken: "In regard to our dear uncle,
Don J. Antonio Navarro, everything has been done to effect his release
that can possibly be conceived of, and a large appropriation of money has
been made to support him and render his situation more comfortable
until tha [his release] takes place."
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