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palmetto leaves. Today we
came into the musqito country
the trees are small bunches scattered
over the praries giving the appearance
at the distance of 1/2 mile of A creek
bottom. The Neueces valley has larger
timber and fine land The corn at
San Patricio is the best we have seen
since we left home.
Crossed the River and camped at the
ferry house The River is about [30?]
yards wide and muddy from the
[two?] banks.
The Irish have settled here since
Genl. Taylor's army came to Corpus [shores?]
the old town having been destroyed
in 36.
Tuesday June 2nd 1846
Left [tho?] and went to Corpus
Christy 25 miles the [course?] nearly
East the country is about the
first we have seen The Bay having
bluff banks generally sand After
we arrived we saw a party of men
marching out of town. We went to
what was the muster and found
that they had 3 men with
that they were taking out to whip
they having robbed an old man
of 12 hundred dollars one got