and spent the night with with a Brother Merrills
the day following a Brother Perkins ^we rode 10 miles to Br Perkins and he^ took us in his
waggon and carried us to McComb from thence to
Brother Carloss Smith I rode for hours during the day
over a very rough road of stones and stumps lying
on my back in the bottom of the waggon shaking with
the ague and I suffered much. We held a meeting in
a grove near Carloss Smith and here Elder Taylor baptized
George Miller who afterwards was ordained a Bishop, at
the meeting the Saints gave us $9 & George Miller a horse
to help us on our journey, I rode to Rochester with
Father Coultrin where I had an interview with several
families of the Fox Island Saints which I had brought
up with me from Fox Islands in 1838 I spent several
days with them and at Springfield where Elder
Taylor published fifteen hundred copies in pamphlet
form of a brief schedule of the persecutions ^and suffering^ of the Latter
Day Saints by the inhabitants of the State of Missouri.
We sold our horse and in company with Coultrin Father
Coltrin Br Taylor & myself left Springfield & continued
our journey I having the chills & fever nearly every other
day which made it very distressing for me to ride in a
lumber waggon shaking with the ague on the 24 Aug we
[rode to] Terre haute and spent the night with Dr Modesett

and spent the night with with a Brother Merrills the day following we rode 10 miles to Br Perkins and he took us in his waggon and carried us to McComb from thence to Brother Carloss Smith I rode for hours during the day over a very rough road of stones and stumps lying on my back in the bottom of the waggon shaking with the ague and I suffered much. We held a meeting in a grove near Carloss Smith and here Elder Taylor baptized George Miller who afterwards was ordained a Bishop, at the meeting the Saints gave us $9 & George Miller a horse to help us on our journey, I rode to Rochester with Father Coultrin where I had an interview with several families of the Fox Island Saints which I had brought up with me from Fox Islands in 1838 I spent several days with them and at Springfield where Elder Taylor published fifteen hundred copies in pamphlet form of a brief schedule of the persecutions and suffering of the Latter Day Saints by the inhabitants of the State of Missouri. We sold our horse and in company with Father Coltrin Br Taylor & myself left Springfield & continued our journey I having the chills & fever nearly every other day which made it very distressing for me to ride in a lumber waggon shaking with the ague on the 24 Aug we rode to Terre haute and spent the night with Dr Modesett