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33 refreshing Southerly breezes. 10. am. got under weigh, & at 2 pm came too off Copano. Our commander went a shore, he found that all the men had gone off to the ? on the news reaching them of the 'Invasions", leaving the Women & children at home, and that 300 volunteers a few days since had passed through the "Mission" (Refugio) on the way westward 5 pm. Came to anchor off Black Pt. the object been to cut and taken in wood, which is the Mesquite of the Acacia [or] Mimosa species. These Bays are full of sand banks & shoals, one has to keep the"Lead" or the "Pole" going, & it requires some attention to ^navigate^ in the channels. Sunday 20th. Black Point has an abrupt loamy coast, the land covered with mesquite grass, which bears a good ? for cattle. The breeze ^sweeping^ over the prairies was laden with the sweet smelling perfume of its flowers. I was tempted into a ramble with a friend, we took our guns, rabbits in great abundance, but the axe of our own wood cutters had commenced to "scare" the deer away. Whilst we were moralizing upon this