Rivers of Texas--seacoast--mill-seats--land grants--number of inhabitants--exports--inhabitants indolent--cheapness of land and manner of obtaining it--reptiles and animals--panther--flies--moschetoes--Indian tribes--water too warm. 182 CHAPTER XXI. Towns in Texas--Spanish villages--Mexican garrisons--Texas--mechanics--Texas and Cohahuila united--courts of law--professional men--unlawful punishments--salt lake--negroes indented--boundaries of Texas--general appearance of the country--rainy season--roads and carriages--emigration. 196 CHAPTER XXII. Emigrants unhappy--Mexican republic unsettled--Col. Austin--imprisonment--Texians slandered--healthy portions of the country--what an emigrant ought to take with him--price of stock--mail routes--currency--best spot in Texas--emigrant puzzled--how property may be acquired. 204 CHAPTER XXIII. Arrival at San Felipe--billiard room--gambler shot--bloody affray about a lady--ten men to one woman in the country--arrival at Columbia and Bell's landing--started down river in a canoe--Brazoria--went on board a vessel--hunting excursion of the mate--Brazos river--Velasco--sandy beach. 213 CHAPTER XXIV. Passed over the bar and left Texas--reasons for emigrating in the fall--means for going to Texas--speculation--passengers on board--sea sickness--vessel run aground--Mississippi steam tow-boats--sugar plantations and negroes--making sugar. 222 CHAPTER XXV. City of New-Orleans--vessels in port--muddy streets and filthy gutters--houses of dissipation--character of the inhabitants--resort of knaves and vagabonds--ship yards--canal and railroad--no wharves. 228 CHAPTER XXVI. Start down the river--nunnery--battle-ground--negro slavery--the situation of the negroes--general views on the subject. 235 CHAPTER XXVII. GENERAL DESCRIPTION of the MISSISSIPPI RIVER--its source--its tributaries--Wisconsin and Illinois--Missouri, its source and tributaries--gates of the Rocky mountains--Ohio river, its general character and appearance--White, Arkansas and Red rivers--outlets of the Mississippi--falls of St. Anthony--Dacota Indian woman--river banks--width of the stream and depth of water--Mississippi swamp--serpentine course--color of the waters--the most interesting river in the world. 246 CHAPTER XXVIII. Sail for Boston--sea voyage disagreeable to a landsman--change of scenery--Chatham, Boston--arrival at home. 262 CHAPTER XXIX. RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE at the GREAT MISSISSIPPI VALLEY--character, appearance and natural productions--conclusion. 266 APPENDIX.