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Mar 12, 1880

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March 12, 1880 ~ Friday

12 We found the horse badly foundered this morning and we left
our team and Br David Udal furnished us with a team to go
to St George with. We want Brother David Udal for a Bishop to
preside over St John. We drove 20 miles to winsor castle and
dined with Br & Sister Emmet. We then drove to Cedar ridge in
a cold driving snow storm we stoped in the cedars 2 hours

^ ^ Made a fire & warmed we then drove 10 miles out into the open
plain drove after dark and camped for the night in one of the
coldest most terrific snow storms I was Ever in we set the side
of the carriage to the Northern Blast put the Horses on the other
side and all three of us got into our bed in the waggon and had
hard work to keep from freezing to death. We had a cask of
water on the side of the waggon and it was frozen through solid
in the morning so that neither we nor our horses had water to drink
untill we found water on the road distance of the day 40 Miles

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Daybook (24 October 1879 - 31 January 1881)

12. We found the horse badly foundered this morning & we left our team & Br ^David^ Udal furnished us a team to go to St George with we want this Br David Udal for a Bishop at St John talk with L John Nuttal about it. We Drove 20 M[iles]. to Winsor Castle and Dined with Br & Sister Emmet we then Drove to the Cedar Ridge in a cold driving snow storm we stoped in the Cedars 2 Hours made a fire & [rested]

Daybook (24 October 1879 - 31 January 1881)

we then drove 10 Miles onto the open plain in the midst of a very cold stow storms we drove till Dark and camped with the cold wind & Snow Blowing vary Hard I suffered muc with the cold then during any storm of the Winter we made a fire & got some supper but we could not get warm we had to go to bed for that ^40 M[iles]^

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