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67 that he is a man, municipal honors await him six months after his arrival in the country when he becomes a citizen. In a few years with industry & perseverance he has the gratifying feeling of being seated in the Congress of the nation, assisting in the administration of his fellow citizens - This by some may be considered high colored - but I will only confess that it has but the slightest 'colour de rose' about it. X May 4. Wind dead a head & strong currents against us 6. PM came to anchor between the San Bernard River & Cedar creek. At night saw a very large patch of prairie fire, which as the night was dark looked strange indeed. Its occasion at ? Streaks of light, when the wind fanned the burning grass, then the huge black vapors rising & rolling about; it did not require a very considerable stretch of the imagination to picture some large city on fire; then the wind would alter the appearance & being low land, the fire appeared to ? as of

X a friend of mine ? of Galveston in 1841