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Thursday 20th [21] Fine & airs from N & N W. 8 am. A strong streaky? light appeared in the W & another but brighter & reddish N.W. 9 PM. The lyte, throwing up a halo from it 10 PM Do_ (turned out to be brush & woods on fire) paragraph crossed out

 Some years since the settlers about the Trinity, came to the determination of circumcrby? the range (which was of very latch extent for an Indian who hunts & necessarly ranges a good deal) of the Coshattas, Muscong's &c; the reason given was that, the said indians robbed catch, set fire to fences &c &c. This does not appear to be the case exactly, but some of the settlers wished for the lands the Indians were on. Many of the Coshattes & other indians have gone over the frontier into the U. States, & it is probable the red about this part of the Trinity river will follow -
 Accompanied Mr & Mrs. Mac D_ & a party some two miles into the pine woods; roads very bad, step by step only cant we proceed on account of the mud which was of all consistencies. On our approach to the residences

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