Show 151 least not as extensively as were other islands Stansbury He merely says:16 makes no mention of birds on it it and to be a mere islet one hundred feet about a mile in circumference having a in height running off from it in a southlong narrow sand-sp- it east direction for a mile and They erected a station on the small islet then sailed to found Vie a-h- Fremont make it camp on alf station there with cloth in order to visible from a greater distance and returned to the covered the Antelope — a full days work Next morning exploration led Several miles from their the northeast point in the in another direction to vicinity of Little camp was a rocky Mountain on the east shore this point the party directed its course However they struck very shallow water while yet far from shore and had to wade a half mile through slimy stinking mud Toward In wading to the shore we struggled through a deep mass of what first appeared to be soft ooze and slimy mud but which upon examination proved to consist almost solely of the larvae of insects lying upon the bottom producing when disturbed a most offensive and nauseous odour The mass was more than a foot in thickness and extended several yards from the shore A belt of soft black mud more than knee-debetween lay the water and the hard rocky beach and seemed to be impregnated with all the villainous smells which nature's laboratory was capable of producing17 After a very strenuous day a station was erected and "the men dark-colour- ed ep 16 Stansbury the Great 17 Salt Lake Ibid 163 Exploration and Survey of the Valley of 162 |