COMANCGES

AMERICAN LIFE   IN   TEXAS   1851
167  YEARS AGO 
JULY 22 1851

The Daily American  Telegraph , Washington, D. C.  gives account  of  a   Texas

Advocate story,   of a young boy,  a son of  a Mr. Hart   of  Refulgio  county  Texas  in east

Texas,  near Corpus Christi , 

“The Comanches  got him.  The boy said  the indians shot his horse out from under

him and as he was afoot,   seized him,  mounted him on another horse,  and bore him off. 

The night after taking him he recounts, they  seized and rode away  Colonel  Lott's

horses,  riding them to the mountains  and turning them loose as is their custom. 

The boy tells of eating horse meat  which was loth to  endure, however,  it is  the

principal  food of these savages.

The lad was rejoiced at his escape and the return  to his fathers  fireside  and  the

endearments  of home and civilized life.