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* * * * * FROM B.LUNDY TO A.STEWARD AND OTHERS.
ESTEEMED FRIENDS: Again I take this method of communicating some private information to my personal friends, relative to my proceedings in Mexico.

My last visit to that country, (like the one preceding), having been prolonged far beyond the time which I had anticipated, I feel it incumbent on me to explain the causes thereof especially to such as take an interest in the enterprize in which I have engaged, and those who have kindly assisted me with, means to defray the expenses of my journey, &c.
Soon after the date of my last printed letter, which was issued from this place, I went to New Orleans, with the intention of taking a passage by sea, to some port in Mexico; but after waiting in that city about two weeks, and finding no opportunity to obtain one, I proceeded up the Red River, and journeyed through Texas again by land.

My health continued very good for some length of time; but when I reached the middle part of the Texas country, it was my misfortune to come again in contact with the direful "cholera," and again I was the subject of its virulent attacks.

My detention was great, and affliction severe; though I finally expelled the disorder as I had done before.

My sufferings were somewhat aggravated in several instances, by the fearful prejudices of the people among whom I traveled.