. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . TABLE-LANDS INDIAN TACT. 173 sweet will over the grass-carpeted plains, which are seemingly boundless as theocean. The grandeur, the rugged beauty of these mighty table-lands will formany years yet be enjoyed only by the Indian ; he makes a good fight from Fort Concho runs a defensive line, dotted with Forts Stock-ton, Davis,
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . TABLE-LANDS INDIAN TACT. 173 sweet will over the grass-carpeted plains, which are seemingly boundless as theocean. The grandeur, the rugged beauty of these mighty table-lands will formany years yet be enjoyed only by the Indian ; he makes a good fight from Fort Concho runs a defensive line, dotted with Forts Stock-ton, Davis, Hultman, and Bliss, the latter opposite El Paso, at the extremewestern limit of Texas, and nearly seven hundred miles from San Antonio, at theentrance of the mountain passes of Chihuahua. Service in this department is nochilds play; it is a rough and tumultuous school; and to see the general activity,one wonders that more is not actually Negro Soldiers of the San Antonio G; Railroads alone can solve the question. As it is, the thirty-five hundred menin the department, whether officered by General Auger, the present departmentcommander, or General Grant, cannot catch and punish the evil-minded soldiers are rarely attacked; the alert and logical savage seeks a peacefulprey rather than a fight with men as well armed as himself Never advertisinghis coming, as the soldiers too often do, he rarely meets them. He is all eyesand ears; the tiniest cloud of dust on the horizon announces to him the approachof some one; he notes the faintest tremor among the grasses, and knows whatit signifies; he detects a little imprint on the turf, and can decide at once whether •or not it is that of a soldiers foot, or a white mans horse. When he mounts a hill, he looks about to sec if there is anything stirring onthe plain; and if there be, he hides until he knows what it is. It is easy to seethat recruits and unpracticed front
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