Show s£g8SSS&Sge 152 at Antelope Island arriving about midnight spent eighteen hours at the oars and in the mud at returned to having "Hud camp Island" following day camp was moved from Antelope to the east side of Promontory mountain in order that Eear River The Bay might be more easily examined 1 Q landing place could not be found and However a suitable it was necessary to shoulder tents water and provisions and carry them ashore somewhat over a half mile — after having dragged the skiff through the "black tenacious and fetid ooze and mud about the same distance" While conducting the Bear River Bay survey under the direction of John W a party Gunnison got stuck with the skiff in shallow water and were forced to spend a cold unGunnison's account paints a comfortable night in the mud vivid picture The men becoming too any further we managed and stiff to turn benumbed to proceed the skiff up on its side as a shelter from the piercing wind and laying dovn the oars and thwarts to keep us as much as possible out of the mud (which was about four inches deep) we huddled together behind it In a couple of hours the wind lulled the skiff was turned again upon its bottom the muddy boards arranged as a sort of platform and we 18 Stansbury refers to the promontory as the range of mountains Promontory Point was first mentioned as such April 18 1850 where the party camped having briefly surveyed Bear River Bay 19 Stansbury Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake 167 |