Show 88 Robert Evans and Silas Gabel plus seven horses and one mule By the time the group reached the edge of the Salt Desert probably near its southern end in the neighborhood of horses (all but two of which had already been slaughtered for food ) and the remaining mule were mere The animals were barely able to carry the camp skeletons Goshute Springs men After traveling all day through loose sand the group scooped out pits to rest in the shade of a small cedar tree Says Smith:® Our sleep was not repose for tormented nature made us dream of things we had not and for the want of which then seemed possible and even probable we might perish it My dreams in the desert unheard of and unpitied were not of gold or ambitious honors but of my distant of murmuring brooks of cooling cascades quiet home After a short rest we continued our march and traveled all When morning came it saw us in the same night situation pursuing our journey over the desolate waste now gleaming in the sun and more insufferable tormenting than it had been during the night By ten o’clock Evans was unable to go farther so: he lay equipment un-hap- down under a cedar tree to rest py Smith and Gabel pushed on in- to a spring doubtless at the base of Stansbury mountain Water revives one rapidly and the two were soon able to return in search of their companion Evans also revived rapidly after a drink of good water and the three were able to return to the spring where to the desert At length they came they spent the rest of the day and night 3 Sullivan Jedediah Smith 104-1- 05 Resuming their |