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 along with Major Neighbors, when I was encamped with the Indians some days at the San Saba. I invited him to go along with me and my company on our further trip. He feels obliged, in his work "Texas," 1849, page 327, to mention that the speeches made at the council on San Saba were embellished. But he embellishes the situation in his book, "The Cretaceous Formation of Texas," 1852, page 88, speaking of "our joint expedition" to the San Saba as if he had had anything to do with my expedition, except to follow up from San Saba Camp as a very welcome guest on our further trip. On pages 259 to 262 of his book "Texas," he embellishes the doings of a riotous mob into proceedings with the citizens of New Braunfels; on pages 208, 217 and 188 he repeats the errors of my enemies and outsiders in reference to my stay at Nassau Plantation, and on page 203 he even goes so far as to judge of my motives, without asking me for them. The childish idea that I fled or absconded in fear of the excited emigrants, is simply ridiculous. I never fled before anything or any danger, that I can recollect. I had just as many excited emigrants at Nassau daily, as I had at Galveston, Houston, New Braunfels, or anywhere. I was always at those places where, in my judgment, my presence was most needed in the interest of the company and the emigrants. In a letter addressed to the treasurer at New Braunfels, written by me from Nassau, I communicated my plans to him in advance.

Colonel Jack Hays, the celebrated Indian fighter, when he returned from a trip to El Paso made in the interest of the San Antonio merchants to find the nearest overland road, in 1858 or '59, I believe, stopped at my house at Comanche Springs, and told me that he was astonished that the Indians kept their treaty so well. That he was never molested nor lost any animals during his travel within the limits of