having a command of only the English tongue, made the offer to those of our German people who would decide to settle here and to work their lands, to let them have a third of the production and also to transfer a third of their presently available significant livestock as a gift, still no one was found who would accept this offer. Our people were quartered here in the houses and in a warehouse; and also, I, with my family together with 150 others. Cooking was done by a fire built outside, and the wood required for it taken from the great amount of wood which the Gulf throws out in abundance. In this manner we lived here from the 6th to the 21st of December, when we were loaded with our possessions onto a schooner, that is, on a small two-masted ship, and brought to Indianpoint.

It was Sunday, the 21st of December, 1845, when we, 200 passengers who had come from Bremen to Galveston on the Neptune, embarked. The other 200, which the Hercules had brought, had already been transported to Indianpoint on the same ship eight days ago.

Indianpoint is 15 English or 3 German miles distant from here, which one can travel in a few hours We left here Sunday, the 21st of December, 1845, towards evening and could still have reached Indianpoint late tonight, if the ship’s crew had not had the misfortune to let the small boat, the sloop (or jolly-boat), fall into the water and to lose the same. We have already been stuck on the sand several times because of the shallowness, but always, by means of the sloop in which several sailors set out in to fathom a deeper watercourse, fortunately pulled off again; but now, after the misfortune occurred, the night was very dark with no moonlight to brighten it and the horizon was covered with dense clouds, one found it impossible to continue the trip farther. So the captain allowed anchor to be dropped, allowed the grounds for the passengers and this philanthropic man made use of all of the means at his command, to provide a night’s lodging as comfortable as possible