This decided Sawyer, who said: "Boys, the jig is up and the best thing we can do is to get across the river and into the United States." That night they crossed the Rio Grande in an old tub of a boat that they expected would go to the bottom every moment and landed in safety at Brownsville, on the American shore.

Here Paul wrote letters home and requested his father to send him a remittance to Galveston.

With the little money they bad, mustangs and provisions were purchased and they started on a long ride to Corpus Christi.

It was a wild journey through the chaparral, over the burnt and dried grass of the prairie, across swamps and rivers; but they made the two hundred miles in eight days.

Here they separated.