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Day in the Life

Feb 18, 1846

Journal Entry

February 18, 1846 ~ Wednesday

18th Head wind we are running South it
is not so cold as yesterday yet it is
quite uncomfortable we had a rough
rocking night I was quite unwell
I have spent most of the last two days
in reading the travels of
Edward Daniel Clark, L.L.D. through
Russia Tartary And Turkey which I
found to be highly interesting His style
of writing is quite similar to that
of Stephen He draws however A Horrid
picture of the whole Russin Nation
He speaks of the Cossacks vary highly
He considers the meanest of them
superior to the most noble of the
Russian No Nation that he visited but
what he gave a better character than
the Russions

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Turkey, Ottoman Empire

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February 7, 1846
On final day of work in temple, 600 received ordinances; total of 5,615 received endowments in Nauvoo.
February 15, 1846
Times and Seasons stops serial publication of the Manuscript History of the Church (history ends with events on August 11, 1834).

Feb 18, 1846