<​13​> About this time Sixty or more Mobbers entered and warned the Brethren to leave the place.

<​Camp​> Thursday 13. The camp travelled to Bolivia twelve miles. Brother Thornton’s child died in the evening, and was buried on the morning of <​14​> Friday 14, before the Camp started, which passed through , which it is expected will soon be the Capital of , instead of Vandalia. Much opposition was manifested at in the countenances of Men, in their hard and— unrighteous remarks against Joseph Smith and the Church and in much laughing. Fever and ague, and chills and fever are the prevailing diseases in this place. The Drouth continues, the water in the Wells is very low, and many Springs entirely dry, many families found stopping places before arriving here. The Camp is sometimes short of food, both for man and beast, and they know what it is to be hungry; Their living for the last one hundred miles, has been boiled corn, and shaving pudding, which is made of new Corn ears shaved upon a jointer or fore plane. It is excellent with Milk Butter or sweetning and with an occasional mixture of Pork, Flour, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Melons &c makes a comfortable living. The Cobs and remaining Corn is given to the horses so that nothing is lost; hence the proverb goes forth in the world “the Mormons would starve a host of enemies to death, for they will live where every body else would die” The Camp numbers about two hundred and sixty, there was five hundred and thirty but they have been scattered to the four winds and it is because of selfishness— covetousness, murmurings and complainings, and not having fulfilled their Covenants that they have been thus scattered. Travelled twenty three miles and tented five miles west of . 569 miles from —

I was at home after three o clock in the evening

<​15 William Dryden’s Statement​> William Dryden Justice of the Peace in . stated to the in a long communication,

<​’s letter to ​> The following letter gives a tolerably fair view of the Movements of the Militia for a few days past