. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . e,which all the blankets I could pile on would not keepout. The young gentlemen crowded themselves intheir tents, and lay as close as possible; while theteamsters, laborers, etc., stowed themselves in thewagons. The morning was sharp and cold; the snowcontinued to fall, and the wind remained at the north,though blowing less than the previous day. I was desirous to resume our marc
. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . e,which all the blankets I could pile on would not keepout. The young gentlemen crowded themselves intheir tents, and lay as close as possible; while theteamsters, laborers, etc., stowed themselves in thewagons. The morning was sharp and cold; the snowcontinued to fall, and the wind remained at the north,though blowing less than the previous day. I was desirous to resume our march; but theteamsters and others, whose experience among muleswas greater than mine, thought it impracticable. Todo so they said would result in our discomfort andperhaps ruin: for the animals would assuredly giveout and leave us much worse off than we were at pre-sent. I yielded to their representations and determinedto remain a while longer: for we were in a goodencampment with grass and water at hand, and theflooring of our tents was dry—a consideration ofgreat importance. No one had taken cold or shownsymptoms of illness. Before leaving San Antonio myfriends told me that at this season of the year we could. TO DELAWARE CREEK. 113 hardly expect to escape the Northers, and advised meif overtaken by one not to move, but encamp at once,and keep quiet until it had passed. But in determiningto remain I thought it most prudent to send a smallparty in advance to El Paso, now about one hundredand sixty-five miles off, for assistance. I ordered another inventory to be made of ourprovisions, and found nothing remaining but a limitedsupply of hard bread and pork ; every thing else wasgone. If we kept on, we might reach El Paso byparching the few remaining bushels of corn and takingan occasional mule steak • but if compelled to remainhere two or three days we should be reduced to a veryshort allowance. Messrs. Thurber, Moss, and Weemsat once volunteered their services to go to El Paso
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