Saturday, August 14

Started at 8:40 in company with a number of others for the Salt Lake.

We arrived at three o'clock and estimated the distance twenty-two

miles. We all bathed in it and found the reports of those who had

previously bathed in no ways exaggerated. We returned back to the river

where we arrived at eleven o'clock at the beginning of a light thunder

shower. There is no pure fresh water between the river and the lake.

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 401 / 481 题