Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
Next day was Sunday the rd. In company
with Brigham Young and the Twelve I visited the top of the highest bluff
ruins that lie opposite our encampment which was truly a curiosity. We
had a fair view of Chimney Rock from where we were. I carried a bleached
Buffalo's head on the top and we wrote upon it our names and distance
from several places. O. Pratt took a Barometrical observation on
the solitary cedar tree on the top of the bluff ruins
The camp met at half past elleven in the
morning for Sababath services. Erastus Snow addressed the meeting
followed by President Young who said he was satisfied that the
Lord was with us and leading us. He had never seen a company
of people more united than the camp had been thus far on the journey;
that we should pluck the fruit of this mission to all eternity; that
he had many things to teach us but could not do it only in a stake
of Zion; but he was well satisfied with himself his brethren the Twelve
and the camp at large. One thing he would say to the praise of
all and that was that not one had refused to obey his council on the
road. His peace with God was continually like a river and he felt
that the Spirit of peace rested upon the whole camp.
Several others spoke and the meeting was then
dismissed.
We intended to have rode out in the evening but
saw that a storm was gathering. It began to blow very hard and
it was as much as we could do to save our waggon bows and covers
from being smashed. It continued for about an hour and then
rained for another hour accompanied by hail. I covered all my horses
with all the blankets I could get and got up several times in the night
to see them. It rained occasionly and the horses shook with cold but
