A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . of the Brazos and buried to awaitthe coming of the colony ; and in November the Livelystarted with a second cargo of pro\isions, seed corn, andother necessary articles, but was lost in the Gulf. As soonas Austin had conducted the families to the Brazos, he went tomeet the Lively and secure the concealed supplies, but the onenever came and the other had been discovered by the Karan-kawa Indians. Additions to-the colony f-ftntinued to arri\e, somecoming across the Gulf to Galveston and Velasco, and others byway of Nacogdoches an
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . of the Brazos and buried to awaitthe coming of the colony ; and in November the Livelystarted with a second cargo of pro\isions, seed corn, andother necessary articles, but was lost in the Gulf. As soonas Austin had conducted the families to the Brazos, he went tomeet the Lively and secure the concealed supplies, but the onenever came and the other had been discovered by the Karan-kawa Indians. Additions to-the colony f-ftntinued to arri\e, somecoming across the Gulf to Galveston and Velasco, and others byway of Nacogdoches and the land route. The first settlements First settle-were on the^ Brazos, and others proceeded to the Colorado. It *^*^was the beginning of Anglo-American ci\ ilization in Texas, and,in spite of hardships and privations, the little colony was hopefuland helpful from the start. Before leaving Texas in the prexious August, Austin had Revolution inheard f)f the revolution of February 24, 1821, in Mexico, thePlan of Iguala, and the successful establishment of Mexican. A Greaser, or LowerType of Mexican. First colonistsintroduced First troubles 134 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Period Rule 1821 TO1836 Austin com-pelled to visitMexico Austins ef-forts to securehis contract Imperial colo-nization law Another revo-lution independence by Iturbide ; but it does not seem to have occurredto him or to Governor Martinez that those transactions affectedthe colonial enterprise in Texas. When in March, 1822, he went to San Antonio to report tothe governor the progress of his colony, he learned with surpriseand dismay that the changes wrought by the revolution wouldrequire him to go to the City of Mexico, in order to secure aconfirmation of his rights and authority as a colonial was twelve hundred miles in a strange land, but he left hiscolonists in charge of Josiah H. Bell and at once set out for thecapital, tra\elling in disguise as a poor man to avoid reach
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