ADDENDUM

My friend Wamel, whose pregnant wife lay ailing during the entire voyage, and whose condition had grown even worse on the journey from Galveston to Port Caballo due to the heavy rains she was exposed to on the steamship, and through the mortal fear she endured on the same during the time it was on the bar, and upon her arrival at Port Caballo, she was so weakened by the delivery of a stillborn child, that on the 8th of December, 1845, soon after the delivery, had to give up her spirit and was buried there by me, seems to have found no great happiness here, since he as well as his children, not being used to the local climate, are almost always sickly.

Blumberg

COMMENTS OF THE PUBLISHER

The land where New Braunfels was settled was purchased at the beginning of the elapsed year by Prince Solms from a man in San Antonio de Bejar (Bexar), amounts to 4 Spanish Leguas (somewhat more than 31 thousand M.Morgen)(14) and lies on the Guadalupe River and on Comal Creek. The town is nicely laid out, from the above mentioned San Antonio about 8, and from the town of Seguin approximately 4 German miles distant. It lies in a plain of several miles, broken only by a wooded range of hills, which at the same time protects the town against the north winds while the east and south winds (sea breezes) have free access. The major road from Bejar to Nacogdoches crosses the Guadalupe here. The water of the Comal is so clean and transparent that one can see the smallest object often 20 feet. deep on the bottom. Fish are found therein in great numbers, among which trout are the most abundant.

The same are already visible at 21 distance of several hundred feet, when they sweep through the water in large schools. About a quarter of a mile distant south of the Comal and the same distance away west of the Guadalupe, rises a steep hill, 30-40 feet above the plain (approximately as high as Culm above the Trinke) (15), which gradually drops

(14) Morgen - 1 Morgen = 25.5322 (about 2/3 acre). acre = = 100 square meters or

119.6 square yards.