gallant sail about 100 feet from the upper deck which was the top of the rope ladders I could go no higher without climing a single bear rope so I retu- rned to the deck I found it required some presens of mind & caution to go up & down the riging of a ship as she was waving in the air we had a calm night May 11, 1841 ~ Tuesday 11th A strong west head wind but warm we sail 9 not an hour to the North we passed a full ...

Sister Album sent us ^[FIGURE]^ two loaves of bread and a lump of Butter. -[Elder Kimball & myself]- bought each of our wives A Muslin DeLain Dress I also boug- ht one of the same kind for Sister Eunice Woodruff all three of the Dresses or the pattern was exactly alik we {paid} 5 {sterling apiece [half] the summer dress} Also bought a foot rool rule a pair of nut cracks & twesers of Mrs Algood. We walked to

June 19, 1845 ~ Thursday 19th [FIGURES] This was also an interesting day to me in gratifying the sight of the eye we went on to the woolwich perade ground the morning was plesant. The field was green presenting the appearance of one of our Illinois Paries [prairies] A ridgment [regiment] of foot soldiers was on perade one of cavelry one of Artillery several bands of music. The artillery showed much dexterity in the use of the cannon taking to pees their carriages & putting them ...

June 7, 1847 ~ Monday 7th The two companies started out before us this morning we travled 7 3/4 miles & nooned on a small creek which scarsly afforded water for our stock & but little grass, while here another Mo company of 13 waggons passed us we were in fair view of Laramie Peak with its top coverd with snow, I found an abundance of sweet thisaly in the bitter creek bottom whare we camped last night much of the shrubery which ...

Mountain Standard Time. To the Presidents of Stakes and the Bishops of the Different Wards. Dear Brethren—It has been con- templated for some time to facilitate travel and regulate time in the United States. Owing to the extent of the country and the great change of time, as be- tween its extreme east and extreme west, the distance between which points being nearly 4,000 miles; and as there is to each thousand miles a change of an hour approximately in the meridian, it necessarily makes a change of four ...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. [Column 1] Malvern Hill, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, London. Traveled 4,469 miles; held 230 meetings, and established 53 places for preaching; I planted 47 churches and jointly organized them. These churches were chiefly comprised in the two conferences raised up in Here- fordshire, consisting of about 1,500 Saints, 28 elders, no priests, 24 teachers, and 10 deacons. The baptisms of the year were three hundred and thirty-six persons ...

carriages containing the attendants of Royalty and the State carriage in which were her Majesty and Prince Albert who sat on her right The Queen's Body Guard ^formed^ by the Royal Blues the Life Guards did duty on the line. The State carriage was drawn by eight of the cream coloured Hanovarian horses which we had seen at the Royal Mews. The whole train passed within ten feet of us so that we had a fair view of the Queen and Prince Albert both going and returning from the House ...

Thames and is the place from which Europeans and Americans take their longitude We walked from Greenwhich to Woolwich also upon the banks of the Thames and the most important naval and military post in England There was at this time a small Church at Woolwhich numbering six members which had been raised up by Elder Kimball. That evening we met five of them at brother Bates and we found the Woolwhich Saints though few firm in the faith. It was ...