Soon after the date of my last printed letter, which was issued from this place, I went to New Orleans, with the intention of taking a passage by sea, to some port in Mexico; but after waiting in that city about two weeks, and finding no opportunity to obtain one, I proceeded up the Red River, and journeyed through Texas again by land.  My health continued very good for some length of time; but when I reached the middle part of the Texas country, it was my misfortune to come again in contact with the direful “cholera,” and again I was the subject of its virulent attacks.  My detention was great, and affliction severe; though I finally expelled the disorder as I had done before.  My sufferings were somewhat aggravated in several instances, by the fearful prejudices of the people among whom I traveled.  I was very anxious to get through my journey, and often assayed to travel before I was in fact well enough.  The consequence was, that I frequently took relapses, and sometimes had to lie out under trees, even in time of rain, within sight of houses, the people being unwilling to give me shelter therein, fearing that my disorder was contagious.

At length I reached the Mexican town of San Antonio de Bexar, and there I tarried, until I had got pretty well rid of the cholera.  I then pursued my journey to Monclova, the seat of government for the State of Coahuila and Texas, in company with several Mexican gentlemen and foreigners.  Previous to this time, I had traveled several hundred miles entirely alone, and generally encamped in the woods or plains at night.  On my arrival at Monclova, I was doomed to encounter “misfortune” of a very different character.  Here I found that the Englishman, (mentioned in my other letter), with whom I had contracted to petition for two grants of land, had totally failed in his application.  The petition had been laid before the Governor, and he was about issuing the grants, when he received a decree from the Legislature—­which was then in session—­forbidding him to grant any more land, under any pretext.  This measure was taken to prevent the great land speculators from carrying on their swindling operations in Texas.  An act was soon after passed by that body, repealing all their Colonization laws; and thus every hope that I had so fondly entertained, and each fair prospect, seemingly so near its realization, was instantly blasted and utterly destroyed!  If ever the fortitude of man was tried, mine was then.  If ever stoic philosophy might be successfully called to the aid of human courage, I felt the necessity of invoking it upon that occasion.  Nearly two years of toil, privation and peril, have been wasted.  My sufferings had been great, though my spirit soared on the bouyancy of hope.  Now the fair superstructure of an important enterprise, whose ideal magnitude had employed my mind, to the exclusion of many hardships endured, suddenly vanished from my sight, and left before me a hideous and gloomy void with no other encouragement