of north storms the water from the sea rises and exposes the city to flooding. The people who live here are either immigrant Germans or Americans or also their slaves, who are Negroes and originally from Africa. The Germans speak their mother tongue as well as English, which is only spoken here by the Americans and their slaves. Since the Americans make up the majority, it is so difficult inconvenience for the German immigrant to make himself understood if he has to transact any kind of business with the latter. The vicinity around Galveston, as far as I have come to know it, appears to be a sandy, unproductive region, upon which one can observe neither trees nor useful growth other than grass and an immense number of sea birds; in spite of that I have still found pretty yellow flowers blooming in the fields in the late time of year. - In the manner I have described we lived here until the 4th of December, 1845, when Consul Klaener [Kläner] sent us off on a large American Steamship and on the same the passengers of the Hercules and those of the Neptune, there were 400 of us along with all baggage, starting out for Indianpoint in the Lavaca Bay around 8 o’clock in the morning. lt happened to be a Thursday and a nice, clear and warm morning, when the said steamship began to move with its 400 passengers. The captain and the ship's crew spoke only English, therefore none of the passengers could make themselves understood in the German tongue. We sailed some distance from land still, so that we always kept the same in sight all day long until near 10 o'clock at night, when the captain halted and let the anchor be cast. It rained hard during the night su that the 400 passengers, who had only the deck where they could stay, because the inner space of' the ship wane over and over filled with the baggage, had a very bad night and were completely soaked through. Oh, how many a passenger longed for his Neptune again where he had a place to stay inside, protected against the wind, rain, and weather and where the stay had often been tiresome. But here, now under an open sky, soaked through by rain and chilled through by a cold norther, they had to struggle. As soon as daybreak, Friday, the 5th