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provided. Within five days from starting from Bexar our only
stock of provisions consisted in coffee and salt. Five or six Mexi-
cans were employed as hunters provided with spears Bows and
Arrows &c and extra horses on those we were to depend for
sustenance.
Friday 25-continued our encampment on the Warloop. Col
Karnes and the Hunters started on fresh horses and returned with
3 bears. We were now said to be in the Towakenies range. They
are said to be very sly, cautious more deadly hostile and savage
than the Comanches.
Saturday Oct. 21 1839-This day while waiting the result of
the wounded Mexican another most heart rending occurance hap-
pened which struck horror to every beholder.
Mr Wm. R. Sisty one of our company while in the act of draw-
ing his Rifle from under his blanket (where he had placed it the
night previous to prevent the dew from injuring it) it being ready
loaded with the cap on the lock caught in the grass and dis-
charged-first went through his hand passed through the knee of
his pantaloons entered the left breast and lodged in the Back. It
proved fatal. he died about 2 oclock about 1I hours after the
catastrophe.
Sunday 27th-buried Mr Sisty with reversed arms with mili-
tary honors about 100 yards from our encampment under a wild
China Tree within the roar of the Guadaloupe.
Monday 28-buried the Mexican under the same tree-marched
about 6 miles same day encamped in a valley.
Tuesday 29-Marched about 17 miles. This day we raised a
hill from whose summit we had a view of a great extent of the
country around in every direction. Never did I behold such a
grand extension and sublime view. We had followed the course
of a valley to attain the summit which was with great difficulty.
We were compelled to dismount in our progress. On attaining
the eminence we were at once on a rocky plateau from which we
could view in every direction hilltops piercing one above another
in every direction till they were closed from view behind the blue
veil of distance. It looked like a vast ocean of which [we] were
in the midst.
This may be termed the dividing ridge between the Guadaloupe
and the San Saba or properly the San Saba Hills. We had a308
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