pieces of luggage of the more than 200 passengers, before it could move nearer to Indianpoint. It was therefore ordered that the flat boat, which had been brought along from Galveston, be put onto the sea, be loaded with baggage and personnel and then taken to Indianpoint. I and my Friedrich also found ourselves among those who came to Indianpoint with the load. My wife, Julius, and my remaining children still remained on the ship to watch the things remaining there and to take them to land on the next trip which was still accomplished today, so that towards evening I not only had all of my things on land, but my whole family had landed happily and safely also, for whom I already had hot coffee and ship's biscuits in readiness and refreshed them therewith immediately upon their landing. At the time of our landing on the 22nd of December, 1845, only one farmer was living in Indianpoint, in a wretched house which was built of very light wood; the walls were overlaid with boards and the roof with shingles. Now Indianpoint already numbers several houses, where a town has been laid out, and a building lot costs 10 to 100 dollars. The farmer is the owner of this place, which is made up of more than 30,000 acres of land, and at the same time he is master of a fairly large herd of beef-cattle, goats, hogs, and wild horses, but at the same time, lives such an idle life that he has only extremely little tilled land whereon he barely produces enough grain and garden plants for his own livelihood. His large beef herd barely supplies him with as much milk and butter as he needs. For feeding and maintaining his livestock he has no further worry other than at the most to mount a horse, look for the livestock on the immeasurable prairie where they are grazing, and to drive them home when it occurs to him to slaughter an ox or to milk the cows. The cows tend to come home regularly in the evening by themselves to nurse their calves which are kept at home. All