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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Spanish government, uniformly discouraged all attempts to penetrate into the country. It was the policy of the government, that completely locked up Texas, and all the Spanish American possessions, and excluded even visiters and travel lers. It was a favourite saying of the Spanish Captain General Of the internal provinces, Don N emisio Salcedo, that he would stop the birds from flying over the boundary line between Texas and the United States, if it Were in his power. This rigid policy prevented'any one from at tempting to explore the country by land, for perpetual imprisonment was the inevitable result Of detection and capture.
Spanish government, uniformly discouraged all attempts to penetrate into the country. It was the policy of the government, that completely locked up Texas, and all the Spanish American possessions, and excluded even visiters and travel lers. It was a favourite saying of the Spanish Captain General Of the internal provinces, Don N emisio Salcedo, that he would stop the birds from flying over the boundary line between Texas and the United States, if it Were in his power. This rigid policy prevented'any one from at tempting to explore the country by land, for perpetual imprisonment was the inevitable result Of detection and capture.