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The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Down the Rio Grande — the trip from Mesilla to Brownsville. (search)
e and camping on terra firma at night to avoid accidents in the river. The Rio Grande did not treat the party roughly until they came within sixty miles of Eagle Pass, where, in descending the falls in the river, the raft upset. The water was not sufficiently deep, however, to swamp their baggage, consequently they soon righ rocks which no rise of water will suffice to overcome. The impression which widely obtains that there is a point in the Rio Grande, above Laredo and below Eagle Pass, where the river entirely disappears under the mountains, is incorrect, and the gentleman with whom we conversed accounts for it thus:--One or two parties have started from El Paso to descend the Rio Grande, but they have all failed at a point below Eagle Pass, where the mountains approach up to the water's edge, and where the bed of the stream is very rugged and the current very swift. At this point all other expeditions have failed, and from the place where their boats capsized, looki