18. Sunday We left Washington & drove to Harrisburgh & held
a meeting under a bowery. A. Lyman L. Snow, & F. W. Richards
spoke to the people followed by President Young. While on the road from
Washington to Harrisburgh we stoped on the edge of a high precepice
which presents a vary interesting scenery in the valley below
& while standing there Brother Edings wh wished me to help him
lift up a flat stone which he wished to throw off from the
top of the precepice into the depthe below as I took hold of it
I caught ta scorpenean bewtween my finger & the stone and he
stung me in the middle Joint of my forefinger which gave me
a shock through my whole system it was a small one &
I mashed him to peaces in lifting the stone, this alarmed me
somewhat as the sting of a scorpeon is considered vary
dangerous with us as some have died with it. I soon got
some tobaco & bound on which took the poison out & I recei-
ved no material injury from it. In the afternoon we drove
over a sandy, rocky road to Tokerville & held a meeting at 7 oclok
W Woodruff, J. Taylor G. A. Smith & E. T. Benson spoke to the people
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we are in the Land of Zion. it is known why we are in this land. This Country was not much known untill we came into it. Since that time much has been known
