my counsel, and told Lyman Wight never
to do so again. He promised to stand
by me forever and never forsake me
again let the consequences be what it
would; but Sylvester Smith manifested
very refractory feelings.
~ Wednesday
Wednesday 18th. As Hyrum Stratton and
his companions were taking up their
blankets this morning, they discovered
two prairie rattlesnakes quietly sleeping
under them which they carefully car-
ried out of the camp. This day my
health was so poor, I left the affairs
of the camp to the management of
Gen. Wight. Having no provisions, we
traveled seventeen miles before breakfast.
I rode in Elder Kimball's wagon. We
crossed a slough half a mile wide,
through which most of the brethren
were obliged to wade waist deep in
mud and water. Gen. Lyman Wight
who had travelled from Kirtland with-
out a stocking on his foot, carried Br. Joseph Young through on his back. Our
breakfast consisted entirely of corn meal
mush, or hasty pudding; we had not
meal enough in our company to make
the mush of the consistence of good starch.
my counsel, and told Lyman Wight never
to do so again. He promised to stand
by me forever and never forsake me
again let the consequence be what it
would; but Sylvester Smith manifested
very refractory feelings.
~ Wednesday
Wednesday 18th. As Hyrum Stratton and
his companions were taking up their
blankets this morning, they discovered
two prairie rattlesnakes quietly sleeping
under them which they carefully carried out of the camp. This day my
health was so poor, I left the affairs
of the camp to the management of
Gen. Wight. Having no provisions, we
traveled seventeen miles before breakfast.
I rode in Elder Kimball's wagon. We
crossed a slough half a mile wide,
through which most of the brethren
were obliged to wade waist deep in
mud and water. Gen. Lyman Wight
who had travelled from Kirtland without a stocking on his foot, carried Br.
Joseph Young through on his back. Our
breakfast consisted entirely of corn meal
mush, or hasty pudding; we had not
meal enough in our company to make
the mush of the consistence of good starch.
