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Sept. 1. Cross the Brazos & travel 5 miles through a rich & well timbered bottom, where we cross the Little Brazos. This is a stream running parallel with the Brazos for more than a hundred miles, generally? at a distance of unclear 4 to 8 miles. The country between these two streams is a rich bottom of heavy timber. Travelled 16 miles further & unclear for the night at Angland? 2. Travel 12 miles & reach the little village called Navasoto, from the river on which it stands. This is the extreme northern frontier, & much excitement on the subject of indian depredations. Left Navasoto on return to Nashville. Travelled 6 miles. 3. Travelled 8 miles, & came to the intended site of a town called Lamar?, as yet it does not contain a tavern or grog-shop as yet, but it contained something of real interest - a blacksmith shop. Travelled 16 miles ; re-crossed the river arriving at Nashville. We learned that indians had invaded Nashville last night, Killing two calves & stealing eight horses out of the heart of the town ; thee of them were tied to the cannon, which a few days ago had been sent up from

• 1844. At present this is not the case, & many are settling in this part of the country