Friday, April 17

This morning very fine. Some of the camp started very early on the way.

I was ready about eight o'clock but was detained on account of Captain

Haws, Egan and others having gone hunting. I left Margaret to drive my

team and sent them on and I drove the cattle on foot. We formed our

encampment on a high dry place.

William Clayton's Journal A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original Company of "Mormon" Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake · 第 85 / 481 题