Autobiography 1858 Deseret News
—I wrote a letter to Oliver Cowdery,
and sent him a list of subscribers for the Mes-
senger and Advocate, and a detail of my mission
in the South.
—18—I rode in company with A. O. Smoot
to a ferry on the Tennessee River. The fer-
ryman was absent. We were offered the use
of the boat, and ferried ourselves; but not
being much used to the business, and losing
one oar in the river, and having to row with a
broken oar, we landed a great distance below
the usual place with a high circulation of
blood and blistered hands; but our horses leapt
the bank, and we went on our way to the
Sandy, which we swam, and spent the night at
Thomas Frazer's.
