water for ourselves or animals after along hard days travel through the burning sand. Whenever we came to a good camping place, where there was plenty of water and grass, we would lay over a day or two to rest and refresh. The women folks made use of the time in washing the clothes and straightening up things, and the men would put in the time going out hunting for game, every kind of which was very abundant. Our frosh moat was mainly buffalo, the country was full of these animals, roasting around in large herds. The hunters did not have to go far from camp to shoot one, After killing one, they would come back to camp to got a wagon to go out and haul it in. We then out it up divided it amongst the families. This meat when cooked was very sweet and delicious, what we did not out frosh, we out up and hung on our wagons to dry in the sun as we travelled along the road. This meat and what other game we shot along the way, served to make the provisions which we brought along hold out longer, besides buffalo, we found elk and dear quite plentiful, so that altogether we fared very well in respect to fresh moat. When about midway in our journey, we come upon a great many Indians, They were almost naked, they would come into our camp to trade with us, their articles of trade consisted of robes, skins, and furs, such as buffalo, elk, door, mink, beaver and so forth. They also brought in guns to trade with us. They had large hords of ponies. These Indians were very friendly and peaceable, and it was quite fortunate for us that they were so, for they were so very numerous around us that they could easily have taken our wagons, our stock, our everything including our lives in a short order if they had felt so disposed. When the Indians are peaceable they are very generous, but when they are hostile they are perfect savages, and it was not at all uncommon for emigrants on this same route to fall in with hostile Indians and got killed by them or to have their stock run off and stolen by the Indians," We were four months on the road from winter Quarters to Salt Lake City. When we were nearing Utah, we were met by come friends who had come out to meat us with supplies if we 209