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the United states, & some have joined other tribes in the interior of Texas. The Coshattes are a mild inoffensive people, attend somewhat to agricultural pursuits and occasionally assist the planters in the vicinity to pick cotton.

  Twelve miles from Swartwout is Smithfield, the few habitations thus denominated is a litch? distance in land. Here are forests of Magnolias.

27th. Current of river is now about 2 to 3 miles per hour, it is getting wider, & the banks are beginning to get low, so bluffs & settlements are scarce. Many large Alligators or Caymans basking in the sun or the sand banks. In many places on the banks of the river, natural boce's or embankments are formed & forming, from the earthy waters brought down by the river.

4 PM. Arrived at the landing place of the town of Liberty, which is secluded in a prairie about half a mile from the river. Here is a ferry, and one store. At this place a beef preserving & salting machine, after the plan invented by Mr Payne of London had been put up.

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