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The 4th we was in the South Pass Spent half the day in burning? Powder, getting the best dinner we could, drinking Ice and Snow water, and some mixed Something else with it in the morning we found Ice in our Buckets nearly 1/2 inch thick, and the 5th the day we went over the Pass we went over Snow banks 12 feet deep, have large quantities of Snow on the mountains, every day for a month, and after have it to mix with our water at Noon, I keep on two Shirts drawers vest and pants all the time, but take off my Coat in the middle of the day, and at Night when I go to bed Change Shirts every week and once in 2 or 3 weeks, have on now the drawers Miss Hancock gave me, shold? give me? a good dayes work if I live to get to the mines Boots and Pants dont last long on this route but the rest of our clothing wears out slow Cant give you a journal of my Travels now but I keep one for every day, will read it to you in the long winter evenings when I get back, I think we have had a pretty fair view of the Eliphent, but from accounts expect to get a much nearer Sight when when we climb the Serra Nevada mountains, but we shall then be near the end of our journey I want you to write all the particulars about how you get along, about Aunt Ruths Family, about the Hughes. and all the changes that have and are taking place, among the Neighbors I dont expect to go to the City of San Francisco this fall, the mines are from 2 to 3 hundred miles this side. but direct your letters there and I can have them forwarded to the Office nearest to us I have not heard from Home since I left St Joes I would like to very much and yet I dread to, on account of the Cholera, and other Sickness I shall not have another opertunity that ? of writing til I get through