July 27, 1844 ~ Saturday

27^th We arived at Detroit in the evening on board
the Bufhalo spent the night at the rail road Hotel

July 28, 1844 ~ Sunday

28^th Sunday We took the propeller Hereles for Chicago
at 10 oclok fare in cabin $7. I spent a part of the
day in writing we had good state rooms and was
comfortable we spoke of our families freequently
and the death of Joseph and Hiram we felt anxious
to get home. I conversed with the quorum of the Twelve
Elder B. Young expressed his feelings to me upon a variety
of subjects among others wished me to keep an account
of things as he should look to me for his Journal some
day. Brothers Kimbal and Pratt were quite sociable as
to Elder Lyman Wight we were always on good terms
we had an interesting time together, we talked over old
times and looked forward to new ones. He informed
me that Joseph told him while they were in Jeal [jail] that
he should not live to see forty years but told him not
to reveal it untill he was dead. Br Wight as well as the
rest of us feels his death deeply

July 29, 1844 ~ Monday

29^th We had a plesent time in gliding smoothly
over the bosom of the lakes

July 30, 1844 ~ Tuesday

30^th We arived at the Macinnau stoped awile &
got some fish took some indians in tow and went along
their is a spirit manifesting itself through
the boat of prejudice against us because we do not
mingle with them in their nonsens and folly our
spirits are not congeniel and they wish to speak
evil of us while we walk uprightly this spirit is
manifest more or less throughout the gentile world

July 31, 1844 ~ Wednesday

231^st The opposing spirit is still previlent through the
boat it is not plesant to be in the midst of it we are
travelling through the Michigan lake vary smoothly
under different feelings from what I passed in 1841
with my family wreked on the Chesepek [Chesapeake]

July 27, 1844 ~ Saturday

27th We arived at Detroit in the evening on board the Bufhalo spent the night at the rail road Hotel

July 28, 1844 ~ Sunday

28th Sunday we took the propeller Hereles for Chicago at 10 oclok fare in cabin $7. I spent a part of the day in writing we had good state rooms and was comfortable we spoke of our families freequently and the death of Joseph and Hiram we felt anxious to get home. I conversed with the quorum of the Twelve Elder B. Young expressed his feelings to me upon a variety of subjects among others wished me to keep an account of things as he should look to me for his journal some day. Brothers Kimbal and Pratt were quite sociable as to Elder Lyman Wight we were always on good terms we had an interesting time together, we talked over old times and looked forward to new ones. He informed me that Joseph told him while they were in Jeal that he should not live to see forty years but told him not to reveal it untill he was dead. Br Wight as well as the rest of us feels his death deeply

July 29, 1844 ~ Monday

[FIGURE] 29th We had a plesant time in gliding smoothly over the bosom of the lakes

July 30, 1844 ~ Tuesday

30th We arived at the Macinnau stoped awile & got some fish took some indians intow and went along their is a spirit manifesting itself through the boat of prejudice against us because we do not mingle with them in their nonsens and folly our spirits are not congeniel and they wish to speak evil of us while we walk uprightly this spirit is manifest more or less throughout the gentile world

July 31, 1844 ~ Wednesday

31st The opposing spirit is still previlent through the boat it is not plesant to be in the midst of it we are travelling through the Michigan lake vary smoothly under different feelings from what I passed in 1841 with my family wreked on the Chesepek