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21 Burleson, but in recommending that the settlers should treat them Kindly when they came amongst them to sell buffalo robes, deer skins &c not to let them have any Whiskey. Campos showed me a shield, gun & spear he had taken from the Comanches. Campos & his tribe are but lately from the Mountains where they have been buffalo hunting & he told me he wants go & visit the coast this Summer to see the ocean & hunt mustangs X deer.

 This tribe as well as many others are hated by the Comanches & such indians with whom the Texans have no treaties, & would kill them could they get hold of them, thus the friendly Indians keep generally within range of the White settlements for protection.
 Got over the Colorado to Bastrop in a canoe, not safe yet to ferry horse across. Under the old Spaniards, the road from Nacagdoches to

________ newspaper clipping: Mr. Greer Mr. Binett made a motion to adjourn till 3 o'clock p.m. which was equally successful. Mr. Stroud introduced two bills, one to reduce into one law all the acts relative to direct taxation, and

An act fixing rate of interest, and for other purposes; both of which were read a 1st time.
The Senate then took up the
   ORDERS OF THE DAY

The report of the committee on Postoffices and Roads, to postpone indefinitely the bill to re-open the great San Antonio Road from Nacogdoches to Bexar, and a bill for the location of a national road from Washington to the Sabine River, being under consideration - Mr. Moor's motion to receive the report was agreed to. Mr. Everitt's motion, that the bill lie on the table and report be taken up, was adopted; and