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about 3 Oclock when we camped for the rest of the day to give our tired & hungry animals a little better fare, we having sent on a committee to procure food of the mormons in advance of our party, they will travel all night if the moon gives sufficient light, our provisions are almost out, & we have supplied the other parties to keep them from starving, as their main articles have given out, on guard from 10 to 12 = 5th started early travelled along the side of the mountain, the river suns in a sort of Kenyon = which drove us above the rocky walls, sometimes on ledges hundreds of feet above the bottom of the valley = we could look back occasionally & see our train scattered along the mountain ^ side, each picking his way as best he could. we picked here a few service berry's, they are some larger than a Whortleberry resembling it somewhat = black = & of a sweetish taste = growing on a bush several feet high something like a thorn bush = also saw snow berry bushes had seen them also between the Platte & Green rivers = also saw wild Currants = about three oclock we came into a ^ narrow gorge or pass with rugged mountains on either hand, towering far above us = into the clouds & the region of perpetual winter = we could see far away above us, the snow fields cold & white upon the peaks above us, then occasionaly a grassy spot upon the mountain side below, & then lower still = but hundreds of feet above us yet,, two or three streams made by the melting snows = leaped over its perpendicular rocky sides & dissolved long before reaching the bottom into mist & spray, & far above our heads wherever possible many a bush & tree "cast anchor in the rifted rock," & higher yet the Pine tree hung = His shattered trunk & frequent flung - Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high = Its boughs athwart the narrowed sky,, Highest of all where white peaks glanced - Where glistening streams waved & danced - The wanderer's eye could barely view - The summer heavens delicious blue; So woundrous wild the whole might seem - the scenery of a fairy dream = yes we were dreaming = & enjoying the wondrously wild sight, when we found ourselves face to face = upon the rocky shelf = where we were travelling, with a band of Eutaw indians,, they found a place wider than