16 A Shower of Frost all trees covered with Frost I spent the
day in the I had a small party at My through the
evening. Capt and his Daughter
[FIGURE] were both present they both were Baptized By
Jan 16th 1860 at 7.30 PM. and confirmed members
of the C. J. C. L. D. Saints under the Hands of the Presidency of
the Church President being mouth There was also
at My House & wife, &
& wife & Brother & wife Capt Gibson
Had been a great traveller through the Indies, Archipeligo &
He entertained us through the Evening in giving
sketches of his travelleds the customs, Habits & Religion of the
People, also the productions, Fruits, Animals, Birds, & reptiles
of the thousands of Island and Continent which he had visited
Many of those Ilands contained hundreds of new kinds of Fruit
the ownly Food they raise by cultivation is rice & sweet Potatoes
all other food groes spontaneous when a man lands upon one of
those Islands he Finds his food before him upon the trees evry
one of those Islands contain a large supply of cocanut & Bannana
there is but one of the Island that is dangerous in consequence
of wild Beast and that Iland loose about 3 men in 2 days upon
an Everage by the Tiger alone. There is but one Island that
He visited which contained dangerous Reptiles. & the
souther States contained a thousand times more Dangerous
serpents than the Indies & Islands. they manufactur a vary
fine silk cotton is also raised & produced from the cotton
tree. Nearly all kinds of Fruits are ripe all the year round
containing ripe & green fruit, Blossom, & buds upon the trees at
the same time. He saw vary large forest trees some 70 feet
in circumference. There was an aromatic Fragrance in the land
breeze through the whole year which was a vary peculiar & healthy
