Show i' jr 153 I placed two men edgeprepared for our night's lodging wise on the bottom of the boat and crawled in alongside of them The two extra men (there were five of us laid themselves down on the lower tier taking care to break had a bit of old sail which in turning the joints had'le been well trampled in the mud and vas in skiff rather sorry condition This we dragged over us as a covering from the snow which was falling fast Although we were almost freezing the heat from our bodies vas sufficient to melt it and cause it to trickle down upon us to our great discomfort At daylight the party again took to the camp little worse mud and arrived at for wear in charge of part of the men at Promontory Point Stansbury and the others headed for "a large island west of Antelope Island which the officers of This the party had done me the honour to call by my name" was of course Stansbury Island second only to Antelope in Leaving Albert Carrington size April station A was erected on a northern prominent point 19 following day the group sailed to Black Rock where While four days were spent in constructing a large station there Stansbury organized the east shore party placing it The in charge of Lt John W Gunnison Stansbury and his men then turned back toward Promontory Point where they arrived after a beautiful all night's sail of thirty miles In the Carrington had conducted a complete survey of Fremont Island having spent four days there From Promontory Point the camp was moved up the west side of the Promontory range to Indian Springs located the meantime |