Sunday, September 12

We traveled this day seventeen and three quarters miles and camped

by Heber's Spring on Horseshoe Creek. We found the spring had ceased

running but there was water in the creek a little north. The roadometer

has broken down today over the same ground it broke as we went west.

Our bread stuff is now out and we have to live solely on meat the

balance of the journey. John Pack has got flour enough to last him

through. We have all messed together until ours was eaten, and now John

Pack proposes for each man to mess by himself. He has concealed his

flour and beans together with tea, coffee, sugar, etc., and cooks after

the rest have gone to bed. Such things seem worthy of remembrance for a

time to come.

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 440 / 481 题