Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
After a very long ^stormy^ and fatiguing passage of ^43^
days we landed on my native shore thankful enough once
more to put our feet
As soon as we landed brother Stratton Mr
Hastings and myself went to an eating house and got a bo dish
of oysters which we relished very much after so long a trip and
the exhausted ship's fare; but we were more reconcilled to our
hard passage when we found that other ships had passed
quite as long and hard a voyage as ourselves that trys some of
them coming in dismasted and all had suffered much
Elder Stratton started for Nauvoo and
I to Farmington my native place to take my father and
step-mother with me to Nauvoo and thence to find a new
home with the Saints in their exodus to the Rocky Mountains
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