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oppose by force, the making of settlements above the present line
of posts; unless they were previously paid a just compensation
for their lands. These declarations and other arguments, induced
Buffaloe Hump to disregard his promises, surrender back part of
the pay received and abandon the trip altogether. This unlooked
for turn of affairs, detained me in the Indian camp three days,
In the interim I succeeded in overcoming the repugnance and
opposition of the Comanches so far as to procure their consent,
to allow one of their young men to pilot me, Though I exhausted
every art of persuasion, and succeeded more by appealing to their
cupidity than otherwise. At noon on the 5th April I set forward
accompanied by Guadaloupe, a Captain of one of the bands, as
guide- Striking and following Brady's creek. Mr. Neal was sep-
arated from the party by pursuing a deer and was not able to
rejoin, having remained in camp nearly all day of the 6th to
enable him to overtake me. I moved in the evening pursuing a
West course, up Brady's Creek-made Snake Spring one of its
head branches on the 7th and the South Cincho [sic] or Kickapoo
Creek on the 8th. Thence striking out West for the head of the
main Cincho-crossing six of its tributaries, and reaching its head
springs on the 12th.
The country from Brady's Creek to the head of the Cincho has
an abundant supply of water timber and grass. The surface gently
indulating. with little rock and no inequalities to impede the
progress of Waggons, continuing to move West I crossed the
divide and arrived on the banks of the Pecos. on the morning of
the 17th having in the mean time remained three days in Camp.-
The divide ascends gradually and almost imperceptably from
both sides. The elevation is not apparent until the summit of
the principal ridge is attained. The soil is a white hard sand,
intermixed with pebbles and well suited for a road. I ascended
the Pecos 28 miles passed and bore off from it at S 45 W-at 48
miles I made the Toyah river, which rises in the Pahcut mountain
and runs N 15 E towards the Pecos from this point following the
courses indicated upon the accompanying map, over level smooth
valleys, which would offer no obstruction to the passing of
wheeled carriages.
I made the Carriso pass on the 24 April which has a plentiful
supply of Water, but is rocky rough and rugged, and considerable529
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