"I witnessed the most extreme destitution among the returning emigrants. I saw a number of women cooking around a camp-fire, and their clothing was extremely scanty. The supply of a family of fourteen persons could have been compressed into a small-sized trunk. One evening I saw two or three women cooking supper, and observing that they had neither tea nor coffee, I questioned them, and they replied they had had none for two or three years. At this time, according to report, it took a four-mule team to draw the Prophet's gold and silver, besides some that went in other conveyances."
The saints again entered into possession of their deserted homes, and began, as well as the lateness of the season would permit, to cultivate their farms and gardens.
Thus ended this crusade against the modern Mohammed and his followers.
FOOTNOTES:
[49:A] Deseret News, November 18, 1857.
[52:A] John Hyde, Jr., in his work on Mormonism, page 146, says: "Fillmore, by the advice and intercession of Col. Kane, who had embraced Mormonism in Iowa, appointed Brigham as the Governor of Utah."