The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 305
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Diary of a Campaign Against the Comanches
town is built from hewn stone and from its antiquity presents a
very Gothic appearance being built about a century since. They
were originally built connected from one street to the other and
partitioned only for each inhabitant of only one story height. and
terraced roofed. so that those Blocks in their present delapidated
state have only the appearance of a vast pile of rocks.
The streets which were once said to be distinguished for their
cleanliness is now irregular filthy and sooty. a water course has
been dug around the town and is said to have once been running
through each street. People nearly all of colour except some few
Americans. Many aged people. Children generally go naked
especially in wet weather.
Extensive Balls in the evening in small ground rooms without
any floor except the smooth earth. People here are very Indolent
scarcely any person stirring in fore part of the day. In the ecening
streets are lighted Bowers are erected in the street for the Fan-
dango. Groups of persons assemble of both sexes. Sometimes
cluster together in merry chit chat very loquacious. at others en-
gage in the lascivious waltz and the Virginia Reel. Here the gay
the Polite and the vulgar congregate together with little distinction
to persons.
Tuesday Oct. 15-We changed our place of encampment to
within one mile of town on the right bank of the river. Our first
night of encampment here we had three horses stolen by the In-
dians. The horses were all tied or staked within the Guard but
from the stealthiness of the Indians and the darkness of the night
they succeeded in taking three horses and escaping with them
about 2 hours before daybreak I myself being on the guard at the
time they were taken.
They were immediately [pursued] by several but only three
came up to them having better horses than the rest. after several
shots from both sides they succeeded in killing one of the Indians
and retaking one of the horses the other two made their escape.
Two of the Indians had bows and arrows the other a musket and
shot a hole through the coat of one of them without any other
injury. Since then we have been encamped in the same place for
3 nights the camp has been in a continual uproar with alarms of
Indians. They seemed determined to retaliate in some way or
other. On Friday evening the 19th. the Guard saw as supposed305
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929, periodical, 1929; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101089/m1/310/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.