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Show Personal Experience- (Continued) Now to my journal. Let me see; at noon,on Tuesday, November 20, we broke camp, and the next day we arrived at the Las Vegas Spring, which was the first water for fifty miles. That day several animals gave out and we were obliged to leave , them. Captain Hunt and train are now with ua. On tho 25th of November, Novem-ber, we camped at a spring Sve found among the cedars. Here we found a note dated November 18, for Captain Dallas to come ahead as soon as possible for tLe people of their train were starving to death, and that the writer of the note had seen tilings that made his blood run cold. They had killed several oxen and had sent "Some of their men to the settle-- settle-- ments in California for provisions." i Captain Hunt says it is 220 miles yet to the nearest settlements. i The next day we passed several dead oxen, lieing by the way, and one live one. He looked lonesome lone-some and was so poor that he was , hardly able to stand. There wore . also a great many yokes, kegs, and draft chains scattered along the road. This day we made : twenty miles and -then camped at . what is know as "Resting Spring." , The fires that were left by .parties who had camped here the night . before, had not yet .gone out. During the 28, we remained at i this place. On the 29 we made but a short days journey and camped by a spring which . is said i to be the last water, the next being 45 miles distant. Here me were . oyer-taken by two foot-men carrying carry-ing their blankets and provisions on their backs. The next day, . Nov 30, we broke camp and started start-ed at an early hour, leaving Captain Hunt and train behind, and at noon we halted to take ' lunch, and let our animals rest. , We were now in a country that is highly impregnated with al-kalie, al-kalie, and it was thought that no fresh water was to be found in this- vicinity, but we were lucky enough to find some holes in , which there was fresh water, con- i sequenlly all hands felt to thank and praise theLord for this bless-ing, bless-ing, there being plenty for ourselves our-selves . and our animals. We rested here for three hours, then filled our canteens, packed up our animals and proceeded on our . journey rejoicing. The road was '""'' ' itlli iu,i ,m . HBBiB iwiiitnTi w -.. i nvmMmmmmmmmmmmr , smooth, the traveling good, the 'j H moon shone nicely, and we traveled H all night, passing wagon that had j l H been left by emigrant! and the ',. H next day we overtook a train of H emigrants camped tby a larga Lj 9H pond of water. Here w halted l JH unpacked our animals and took re- ' B freshments. i Bfl On December 2nd we reached H the Mohave river, where we found ' jB a company of emigrants-men, J women and ohildren--who were p H without food. f SH H. W. B. L .H To bo continued. f B |