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Show ~76 JOUHN,\L OF A \ ' 0 \ ACtt·: nish troops, when commanded by co!ond l lerr~n·a, on the late affair between the two governn)ents. Crossed the Sabine river and came about one league on this side to a little prairie, where we encamped. Part d with lieutenant Guodia.ua and our Spanish escort. 1\nJ here I think pro. per to bear testimony to the politc:ness, civility and attention of all the officers, who at diflerent periods and in different provinces con1maded my scort, (but in a particular mannrr, to Malgares and Barelo, who appeared stuJious to pkase and accommodate, all that lay in their power) also the obliging, mild dispositions evinced in all instances by their rank and fi I e. On this ide of the Sabine I went np to a house where I found 10 or 15 American~ hovering ncar the line, in order to embrace an opportumty of carrying on sotne illicct commerce with the Spaniards, who on their side were equally eager. l:Iere we found Tharp and Sea, who had been old sergeants in general vVaync's army. Distance 15 miles. SOtb June, Tuc.rday.-Marched early and came on to a house at a small creek 15 miles, where lived a Dutch family named Faulk, wh;re we left a small roan horse \vhich had given out. lYiarched twelve miles .further to a large bayou, where had been an encamptnent of our t.ro~ps, which I recognized by its form, and took pleasure Ill nn· agining the position of the general' marquee and the tents of my cliflercnt friends and acquaintances. Distance ~8 miles. J st July, f;1'(·dnc.~day.-Find1ng that a horse of Joctor Robinson's, which had come all the way from Chihuahua, co ul J not proceed, was o bligcd to I ·a v him here. ~ cs· tcrday <mLl to day pas cd many Choctaws, whose clotlung, furniture,&c. evidently market.! the superiority of situation of those who bordered on our frontiers, to those of the naked, half ~tarvcd wrct ch~·s whom we found hanging THROUGH Till~ INTLHIOH PROVIl\CES, ~.::c 2:- ;- round the Spanish settlements. Came on and passl.!u a string of huts, supposed to be built by our troops, and at a small run a fortifi ed camp but a half mile from the hill where anciently stood the village Adycs. ' W c proceeded on to a spring where we halted for our loads, and finding the horses much fatigued, and not able to proceed, left them and bago·age and proceeded on 1 • b ' w 1cn we arnvcd at Natchitoches about four o'clock, P.M. Language cannot express the gai ty of my heart, when I once more beheld the standard of 1ny country waved aloft !-" All hail cried I, the ever sacred name of "country, in which is embraced that of kindred, friends, "and every other tic which is dear to the soul of man ! !" Was affectionately received by colonel Freeman, captain:-, Strong and Wool toncraft, li(~utenant Smith, and all tht· efficers of the po~t. z. 1\1. P1 K ,.., |
