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Show Written for The Union. HANDCART EXPERIENCE. Continued. The next day we made about 22 miles, mid a good many of our feet were sore and a number had their I feet blistered, and wo were all tired indeed. One brother more hardy than many others, asked our little Frank to again sing the Hand Cart song, and methinks I now see him stamp his little feet and wring his hands and yell at the top of his voice, saying "I will never sing it again," and I think he kept his word. We traveled on and came to late streams of water as the snows were melting very fast, in the dis- taut hills, and we had to wade and 1 carry our children, and some of its, also carried our wives across the streams, and pull our carts through ; and thus we traveled on, four or five days, till our captain believed we were in a country where there were plenty of buffalo, so we camped camp-ed for a day in order to hunt i'or buffalo. There was a grove of timber along a stream, not far off, and our hunters started out. Their outfit consisted of six shotguns and a few pistols, and we traveled on shanks ponies, but of this, I need not say much, only, when 1 saw parties from other camps who were well provided wTith rifles, am-unition, am-unition, and good horses, 1 could but laugh at our folly in attempt- ing to hunt buffalo on foot and with such an outfit as that which we had, but we had the best we could procure, under the circumstances, circum-stances, and it was all we had to either hunt with or protect ourselves our-selves from the red men of the plains, who, in those days, were not very pleasant companions. It was not very long ere we arrived at a place called Genoa, which consisted of a few dugouts and one small house. There were more rnesquitoes at this place than I had ever saw at one time before. There were two men here, with their wives, and each man had a yoke of oxen, a wagon and two or three cows, and they asked the , privilege to travel with the hand cart company. As Emigrant trains with ox teams, wero traveling travel-ing our way every week or tt n days I thought it rather strange that they desired to travel with us, but tho first night we camped, revealed the secret. They milked their cows, then with their milk and measure went from cart to cart to fell their milk, and the result" was that what little money the people did possess, they soon had the most of it. Then they offered to let the people have a few pints of milk and ' , , i i i ,,, iii i hi i r inamaw tiko various articles of jewelry, as sacurity, for n short time, but made it so short that they know the time would expire before they would arrive at Bait Lake City, and thus they become the possessors of many valuable articles. Perhaps Per-haps you would like to know what became of these two men, who call, od themselves Latter-day Saints? To be continued. |