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The Meusebach expedition left Fredericksburg, Texas on January 22, 1847 to the Fisher-Miller grant which lay deep in the heart of Comanche territory. The group consisted of three wagons and forty men including Lorenzo de Rozas. As a child Rozas had been kidnapped by the Comanche. By virtue of his knowledge of the Comanche language and the territory, Rozas was appointed guide and interpreter. The German Immigration Company was virtually bankrupt and the desire to locate the Spanish silver mines was a faint ray of hope. The pragmatic Meusebach commented, "I do not really count the silver mines until we have them." The expedition got off to an inauspicious start. On their second day, one of their men was seriously injured when his rifle exploded while on a buffalo hunt, so he had to return to Fredericksburg. Also, while building a campfire it began to burn out of control. In futility, Meusebach's men fought the prairie fire for thirty-six hours. The earth was burned for miles around and the event most certainly alerted any Indians in the area as to their presence. Seventeen days after their departure Meusebach and his men encountered a hunting party of Shawnee in the immediate vicinity of the Llano River. After communicating to the Indians in broken English they hired three Shawnee as hunters who told Meusebach that his expedition was under constant surveillance by the Comanche whose tracks they had detected...

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