about one year I spent 8 days with Father Carter & Household visiting the relatives & Saints in Scarboro and one day I went out into the sea with a BFabyan & Ezra Carter my Brothers in Law in
a boat to fish with hooks we caught 250 Cod Haddock & Hake and we saw four whales two
at at a time, the first ^time^ in my life that I had
ever seen that kind of a fish that swallowd Jonah. On the , I parted with
my Wife and her Fathers household leaving her
with them, and in company with Johnathan H
Hale started upon my mission to that I had
in view when I left FoKirtland to visit Fox Islands to preach the Gospel to the inhabitants
thereof. We walked 10 miles to portland & took the
steem boat Bangor which took us to Owls Head
where we went on board of a sloop which landed us
on North Fox Islands at 2 oclock on the of Auguts
August This town is called Vinal Haven it
includes both North & South Fox Islands in Lat
44 North Long 69, 10, population 1800
about one year I spent 8 days with Father
Carter & Household visiting the relatives & Saints in
Scarboro and one day I went out into the sea with
Fabyan & Ezra Carter my Brothers in Law in
a boat to fish with hooks we caught 250 CodHaddock & Hake and we saw four whales two
at a time, the first time in my life that I had
ever seen that kind of a fish that swallowd
Jonah. On the , I parted with
my Wife and her Fathers household leaving her
with them, and in company with Johnathan H
Hale started upon my mission that I had
in view when I left Kirtland to visit
Fox Islands to preach the Gospel to the inhabitants
thereof. We walked 10 miles to portland & took the
steem boat Bangor which took us to Owls Head
where we went on board of a sloop which landed us
on North Fox Islands at 2 oclock on the of
August This town is called Vinal Haven it
includes both North & South Fox Islands in Lat
44 North Long 69, 10, population 1800
"Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 1," p. 8, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 30, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/D6nx