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Show rolled over and over with its pack on. It was dark before we made camp. The next morning we found the animal ani-mal dead. It was a horse belonging to George Q. Cannon thea a mere boy. Nov5th. We have no feed for, our animals and they look bad. Today as we continued down the canyon, it began to ; widen and the traveling is much better. - Soon we came where Indians had ; raised corn, beans and ' squashes, also wheat. The corn was standing minus the ears. Passing on we came to another Indian farm and camped. The standing fodder offorded good feed for our animals. The next day we passed a wickeup, the Indians fled at our approach, leaving, to all appearance, everything behind. At evening we camped in a cottonwood grove and the leaves were almost perfectly per-fectly green, showing there had been no frost, and it seemed more like midsummer than November. Wednesday Nov. 7th. Some of the men went head to see what the country was like while the camp made only a short journey and awaited for the men who, when they returned, reported that the water sinks a shoat distance below, and as far as they had been there was no more sign of water that the country was broken and sandy. We gave the name "Farm Creek" to this creek. Nov. 8th. While at breakfast we were overtaken by six men with pack animals and they say that the whole train of wagons had conclnded to follow on after us, leaving Captlan Hunt to go hi9 'own way. Filling our canteens we followed down the creek a short distance, then tnrned and travled westward over sand hills and at night camped in the dry bed of a croek. The day had been hot and every canteen was empty. Men dug in the sand for water but found none. One of captain Smith's men came up to where Brother Rich and men whs and offered to pay fifty dollars for a drink of water. There was none for sale. The next morning we followed up the bed of the creek, in a north course, towards some mountains, with hopes of finding water, while the sun appeared to come down upon us hotter than ever. Some become almost crazy with thirst. I filled my mouth with bullets, chewing them to create moisture, and, to some extent, found relief. to be continued . Personal Experience- Leaving Capt. Hunt anil his train of wagons, the packers piuhed on In advance ad-vance keeping the Spanish trail until we reached the present sight of Hamlin, near the Mountian Medows. Here all hands decided to leave the Spanish trail and make a cut-off and be in the mines In 30 days while to keep the Spanish trail we should only reach Lower California Cali-fornia by that time snd then we would have to travel up. the country hundreds ef miles to reach the diggings. It was now Nov. 1st. Leaving the Spanish trail we turned back a short distance dis-tance and then struck almost a due west course with no guide. Soon a heavy shower of rain was upon us and th the ground in a little while became so soft that it was with great difllculty that our animals could travel. Rain was cold and our mules f.nd horses shivering and ourselves wet to the hide. At last we came to some rocks, that afforded shelter from the storm, these we gavs the name fKocks of Refuge." Wood was handy and plenty. Fires were soon made and a general drying off ensued, and cooks lost no time in preparing for the Inner man, of which I believe we did ample Justice. The next day we crossed over the rim of the Great Basin and down a narrow, rocky canyon, the sides of the mountains were almost solid mass of rock and perpendicular at that, and to think of climbing with our animals was out of the question. We passed over one place where if an animal had made one false atep, he would of plunged a hundred feet without any possibility of saving life ; and another place we had to help our animals by putting ropes around their necks and men to pull them up a sttep barrier of rocks. One fell aad |