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Feb 17, 1879

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February 17, 1879 ~ Monday

17. We arose in the ^morning^ from our Bed on the ground and cooked our

Breakfas from a fire made of Dead Joshua`s a speics of
cacktus 12 feet high, 12 to 16 inches through which when dead
makes a good fire. This desert abounds with the greatest
variety of cacktuses I ever saw, the Joshuas here are ownly 12
feet high, in Calafornia they grow 50 feet. We also have the common
cacktus 6 feet high, the Devils pin quishion 3 feet, the snake
cacktus 6 feet. The yankee pin cacktus that is covered with
regular pins with heads on that answer for use as well
as sale pins, then we have the common Leaf prickly pear
we drove to day through the canyon and on to Santa Clara
settlem[en]t. I stoped with a good kind friend who gave me
a room by myself with a good fire, Bed, furniture, and a
plenty to eat I took a good supper then a Bath and change
of clothing which I much needed after wandering in a dusty
desert for a week Brother David left for home I went to bed
and had a good nights riest 25 M[iles].

I dreamed in the night there was a large fire in Salt Lake
City I thought Z.C.M.I. Coop was on fire

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