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washed off, & landed against a big tree & the roof was well buckled. The blacksmith was washed away, & got into a big native apple tree. The anvil, & some scrap iron, showed us where we ought to have been able to get some of our horses shod. The head station, right on a high bank of the river, ?? had about 4 feet of water in it. 

Before the bullocks got to Texas we met a mob of about 20 chows (Chinese) & we could not get them to keep together, & they frightened the very devil out of the bullocks. All we could get out of them was " TEXIE NO GOO"  They had been growing tobacco near there.

The station people told us that some of their cattle had landed 90 miles down the river. Cattle lie slightly on their sides & float.

It looked as tho a thunderstorm was coming, so got quickly back to

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