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11th. Started for the Trinity. 1 1/2 miles from Houston 100 on the 'Union Springs' Paid to have minual ?erpatus. sentence crossed out We had left Houston rather late in the day & got benighted, we saw a light in the distance apparently in our track we approached it, & ?ck went a rifle balls. We sang out lustily, that alsshm we wa ear be wer not quite^the sort of game to be taken in that way -

 I need hardly say that the light we took for a hon was a pan of pine s ticks, burning by some deer hunters.

They apologized to us & we parsad our way. It was very dark & we supposed from the distance we had travelled that we had rather overshot the spot we had intended to remain at for the night & neither of us had ever been this road before. As yet there are no syn posts.