Monday, October 4

Cool and pleasant. We traveled twenty and three quarters miles and

found that the last company have made a new road near the bluffs to

avoid a very bad slough. We went a little on the old road and then

struck across to the new road but had considerable difficulty in

crossing the slough. We camped beside a small lake of not very good

water and several miles from timber.

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 463 / 481 题