Status Updates From Il cammino del morto

Custody of the Texans is passed to Major Laroche of the Mexican Army as a shamed Captain Salazar is told to take himself and his soldiers back the way they came.

The battered group of men plus Matilda finally arrive at the village of Las Palomas—lacking in any younger people due to their kidnapping by the Apaches for the slave trade. The old people take in the Texan “prisoners” who remain to the church and provide the food and warmth they can.