After planting crops and building cabins, Wilford leaves Salt Lake Valley to return to Winter Quarters.
11th We travled 10 miles & camped on the Platt above the
Junktion at 3 oclok I went to the Bluff after some Buffalo I got
into A large Herd & shot a cow but did not fall but went off
with the Herd In returning to camp darkness overtook me I
could not see the camp so I made for the river I had to waid
through swails for 20 rods nearly to my hips in mud & water
I passed through the mids[t] of plenty of ducks gees swan &
wolves I saw one animal of the cat kind which I took to be
a links I struk the platt 4 miles below camp & got in weary
Hungry & weary & learned that Br Egbert had killed a cow
& calf at the Bluffs & a company had gone after them &
could not find the camp had like myself to wallow through
the swails we had to raise lights on poles to light them in, one
got lost & did not get in untill 10 oclok 10 m[iles]
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