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74 30th - For some days past there has been very heavy rains accompanied with lightning & thunder & strong breezes from N.E. Although agnes have visited Texas from the Sabine to the Colorado pretty intensively this year, then has not been one case of Chills & fever here. W?oasr? Castros Emigrants many of whom travelled up to this section of country during the heats of Summer fell sick & several have died. Some of them believed the rigid diet was the best course to pursue, this debilitated them when they ought to have lived generously - say upon good corn bread with game & beef, of which there was & is plenty of here, they preferred a small quantity of wheaten head and cabbage sank?