so long pursued in very closely, changeing
their dress and horses several times a day.
Brother Eleazer Miller with others joined the
company with three horses about noon, a
little east of Rochester. This recrute was
very seasonable as many of our horses were
afflicted as they very frequently were in
changing country climate and food.
Many of the horses after eating dry corn
and prairie grass would be served with
colic cholic, and bloat very badly. Brother
Ezra Thayer administered a medacine
mixed in a great stone bottle, prepared
as follows, a three penny paper of tobbacco,
half an ounce of copperns, and two
table spoons full of cayenne pepper, and
the bottle filled with water when he could
not whisky, one half of a bottle constitutes
a dose and whould unvariably cure a
sick horse in a few minutes and is
worthy of rememberance. Br Thayer called
his medicine 18 by 24. We encamped about three
miles from Springfield on Springfield creek.
F. G. Willams and A. M. Babbet returned
to the camp with two kegs of powder, and
reported, that the people were somewhat excited,
more however from a cureosity to know

so long pursued in very closely, changeing their dress and horses several times a day. Brother Eleazer Miller with others joined the company with three horses about noon, a little east of Rochester. This recrute was very seasonable as many of our horses were afflicted as they very frequently were in changing country climate and food. Many of the horses after eating dry corn and prairie grass would be served with colic cholic, and bloat very badly. Brother Ezra Thayer administered a medacine mixed in a great stone bottle, prepared as follows, a three penny paper of tobacco, half an ounce of copperns, and two table spoons full of cayenne pepper, and the bottle filled with water when he could not whisky, one half of a bottle constitutes a dose and whould unvariably cure a sick horse in a few minutes and is worthy of rememberance. Br Thayer called his medicine 18 by 24. We encamped about three miles from Springfield on Springfield creek. F. G. Willams and A. M. Babbet returned to the camp with two kegs of powder, and reported, that the people were somewhat excited, more however from a cureosity to know