5th we travled about 8 miles broke A tong out
of one of my waggons I stoped And put in an
other
~ Saturday
6th Br Sanders broke An Axeltree And the
droveiers left one of my calves we had an
exceding bad road some part of it the worst
of any we had had we camped on the first
prairie after crossing the first creek
~ Sunday
7th ^[FIGURE]^ Sunday we killed A calf this morning
the last one we had we waited this morning
for Br Sanders to come up He came about
10 oclok At 1 oclock we continued our journey
And about sun down we came to the
long swail one mile & a half across it the
worst peace of road on the whole jour-
ney my carriage & family went through
it I got my waggons half through by
dark I attempted to go through & the
wheels of my waggon cut to the hub in
turphf & mud & with 8 yoke of cattle I
could not get through two of my waggons
remained fast in the swamp all night
cousin Betsey was in one waggon & remained
all night I was in the mud & water to
my knees till 2 oclok at night I was
amung the cattle near all night at
day light I rolled up in a buffaloo robe
& got some sleep
~ Monday
8th we lay still to rest man & beast
~ Tuesday
9th we travled about 20 miles & camped
near the Macedonia company of 31
waggons on a creek
~ Friday
5th we travled about 8 miles broke A tong out
of one of my waggons I stoped And put in an
other
~ Saturday
6th Br Sanders broke An Axeltree And the
droveiers left one of my calves we had an
exeeding bad road some part of it the worst
of any we had had we camped on the first
prairie after crossing the first creek
~ Sunday
7th [FIGURE] Sunday we killed A calf this morning
the last one we had we waited this morning
for Br Sanders to come up He came about
10 oclok At 1 oclock we continued our journey
And about sun down we came to the
long swail one mile & a half across it the
worst peace of road on the whole journey my carriage & family went through
it I got my waggons half through by
dark I attempted to go through & the
wheels of my waggon cut to the hub in
turf & mud & with 8 yoke of cattle I
could not get through two of my waggons
remained fast in the swamp all night
cousin Betsey was in one waggon & remained
all night I was in the mud & water to
my knees till 2 oclok at night I was
amung the cattle near all night at
day light I rolled up in a buffaloo robe
& got some sleep
~ Monday
8th we lay still to rest man & beast
~ Tuesday
9th we travled about 20 miles & camped
near the Macedonia company of 31
waggons on a creek
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