...d do — in short, bragged too much-but as there was no help for the situation, I made the best of it by trying to smooth down the ruffled feathers of Canales and Cortinas. In my interview with Caravajal I recommended Major Young as a confidential man, whom he could rely upon as a go-between for communicating with our people at Brownsville, and whom he could trust to keep him informed of the affairs...