Autobiography 1858 Deseret News
—We cut down a large cotton wood
tree, and in two days dug out a canoe four feet
wide and twelve long, put on a pair of oars
and then rowed down the Arkansas river, 125
miles to Little Rock, begging our food by the
way, a meal at a time, as we had opportunity.
After visiting Little Rock we traveled down
the river ten miles, and tied up our canoe on
the east bank and stopped with Mr. Jones. I
preached next day at his house. On the 16th
we left our canoe with Mr. Jones and walked
back up the river ten miles, opposite Little
Rock, and took the old military road, and
started to wade the Mississippi swamp, which
was mostly covered with water from Little
Rock, Arkansas, to Memphis, Tennessee, a
distance of about 175 miles. We waded through
mud and water knee deep, day after day, and
in some instances forty miles per day, before
we could get a stopping place.
