One night we camped in the middle of a prairie
without water; one man took a spade and said,
["]Who knows but I can find water here." and dug
a small hole, which soon filled with good water;
when the brotherin saw this, they said it was as
much a miracle as for Moses to bring water out
of the rock
June 8, 1834 ~ Sunday
Sunday the 8
th.
We were joined by brother
and with another company, who
started from , Michigan Ter. May the 5
th,
the same day that we started from , they
having passed through , ,
, , , crossed the
one mile below , , , , and Polmepa.
was their Historian, Lymon Wight Steward,
Hiram Smith, and Moderator. We
had agreed to meet at this point, and the first
that arrived was to wait for the other, and it was
a happy meeting. Soon after the arrival of brother
Hiram and his company, I dispatched brother
and with
messages to the brotherin in , fearing
that the letter which I sent from had
miscarried. and ten others of
this branch of the Church joined our camp which
