Watched Closely by Gen d'Armes—Experience when at Prayer—Take Dinner with the Rev. Mr. Howe—Dining with a Catholic Bishop—Impatience of the Governor—Leave Tahiti on the Abyssinia—Curiosity of Passengers and Sailors—Difficulty in Getting out of the Harbor—Hear of More Trouble at Anaa—Captain's comment on Mormon Books—A Waterspout—Crossing the Equator—Encounter a Terrible Storm—A Tidal Wave—Ship Springs a Leak—Panic on Board—All Hands to the Pumps—Stopping a Leak—Fair Weather Again.
Arrive at San Francisco—A Wrecked Ship—The Abyssinia Condemned—Gathering Wreckage—Drunken sailors—My Trunk Held for Hospital Fees—Go Ashore, where all Is Changed and Strange—My Dilapidated Appearance—Seek Guidance of the Lord—Wander Almost in Despair—Meet an Old Friend—Find a Home—My Trunk Released—Meet Elders Going on Missions—Well Treated by Saints and Strangers—Providences of the Lord—Outward Bound Elders Entrusted Money to me for their Families—Engage to Carry Mail to Los Angeles—On a Steamer for San Pedro—Taken Severely Ill.
Become Desperately Ill—Nursed Back to Consciousness—Kindness of an Aged Spanish Couple—Belt with Money Entrusted to me Disappears—Intense Anxiety—Discover the Money—Great Suffering—Land at San Pedro—Left on the Beach—Drag Myself to the Shelter of an Old Wall—Kindness of a Spaniard and His Wife—A Terrible Night—Seek a Passage to Los Angeles with Freighters—Refusals—Meet a Kind Teamster—Reach Los Angeles—Dumped on the Street—Find Shelter, but a Chilly Welcome—Start Next Morning, Sick and Hungry, to Find a New Place—So Ill I have to Lie Down in the Street—Two Friends from San Bernardino—Am Told that I have the Smallpox—My Friends Give me Money and start in Search of a House where I can be Cared for—Failing to Secure a Room, they Engage the City Marshal to get a Place, and they Leave for San Bernardino—I wander for Shelter, but Doors are Closed, and People Avoid me—Lodge in a Doctor's Office while the Doctor is out—Scare the People by Shouting "Smallpox!"—The Doctor Returns but Leaves me in Possession.
City Marshal and Doctor Come to Remove me—Taken to a Deserted House, which had been Used as a Sheepfold—Bedded In Sheep Manure—An Indian Nurse who Becomes Frightened—Spanish Nurse Sent to me—In a boat with Patient Job—My Fever Increases—Attacked by Robbers—Relieved by City Marshal with Posse—Marshal takes the Money I have in my care, for Safe Keeping—Spanish Nurse Scared off—Queer Sailor Nurse—He Drinks Whisky, Sings and Dances—His Thoughtful Care of me—Visited by my Cousin—Kindness of San Bernardino Saints—Recovering from my Illness—My Clothing Burned—Heavy Expense Bill Against me—Tell the City Marshal of my Arrival in California as a United States Soldier in the Mexican War—Kindness of the Marshal—Los Angeles Assumes the Bill for Medical Attention Given me—Start for San Bernardino—Exhausted on the Journey—Almost Die of Thirst—Relieved by a Party of Spanish Ladies—Kindness of Spanish Families—Arrive at San Bernardino and Meet Friends and Relatives
Report my Mission—Prepare to Continue the Journey to Utah—Have to Remain at San Bernardino for a Time—Sickness among the People—Instances of Healing by Administration—Engage to Travel with a Pack Train to Salt Lake City—Get a "Bucking Mule"—Start on the Journey—In a Hostile Indian Country—Signs of Danger—Prepare for Trouble—Sudden Appearance of an Indian—Our Party Want to Shoot—I Protest, and make Friends with the Indian—Other Red Men Appear—Difficulty of Restraining our Party—I converse with the Indians, who tell of a Camp of Mormons and Mexicans a short Distance Ahead—How I Understood the Indians—Discover the Camp Spoken of—Rest a Day—Move Toward the Santa Clara—Danger Ahead—A Fire Across our Path—We Dash Through It—Hostile Indians—An Exciting chase—Meet Apostles A. M. Lyman and C. C. Rich—Arrive at Cedar City—Stop at Parowan—Journey North, Preaching en Route—Reach Salt Lake City—Settle with the People for whom I have Money—Report to President Young—Preach In the Tabernacle—Released from my Mission—Cost of my Mission to the Society Islands.