This bread looks very white and has a pleasant, sweetlike taste, still at the beginning, before we became accustomed to it, caused violent stomach pain and dysentery, but now we are so used to it that it not only does not harm us but, on the contrary, tastes good to us and we thrive on it.

But that we have to camp here in Indianpoint has its cause, mainly because of the bad roads which have, due to this year’s long, continuing rain and through the prevailing north winds and severe winter have gotten so bad that they have become thoroughly impassable in the many miles wide and long swampy prairies, for which reason it was impossible for the Society to bring heavily loaded wagons through the miles of long swamps and quagmire of the wide prairies. Also, no farmer could have understood to provide his wagon and team for money to transport off emigrants because he would otherwise have to be afraid of losing both wagon and team in the mud. Even now, with the entering of the month of March, when the roads are significantly better and spring has long since begun and he has begun to cultivate his acreage, he can not undertake to make money this way, but rather first undertake the same after finishing the planting of his fields; therefore, our stay here could last until the middle of the month of April. Our procession will then go over the 30 German mile distance to the city of New Braunfels, built in 1844, by immigrants who came from Germany, as far as the little river Pedernales, to the still 8 to 10 German miles behind New Braunfels situated in an especially nice, pleasant and fertile region, where we will establish the city of Fredericksburg, and where each of us is to receive 20 acres of land along with a building site as compensation for the long stay here. Forty young people from New Braunfels were already dispatched there long ago to level the roads, to cut down the wooded areas on which the city will be laid out, and to arrange other advance preparations for our reception. On the 14th of February, 1846, I undertook with my Julius and several others, the trip to to city of Victoria, which is 10 German miles distant from here on the road to New