"I'll make a proposition to you, Robert: I'll give you twelve dollars a week for the first year and fifteen for the second."
This proposition was eagerly accepted by me.
[CHAPTER XII.]
LEAVE NEW YORK—ARRIVAL AT WYOMING— INCIDENTS ON THE PLAINS.
I slept that night in the office. The next day Brother H. P. Folsom procured lodgings for me at Sister Mary I. Worthington's, in Brooklyn, with whom I stayed till the next Tuesday, the 17th of June, when, in company with her and her family, we left New York about midnight.
Our company consisted of about seven hundred Scandinavians (a ship having arrived on the 17th) and about one hundred English.
On the 29th of July, about noon, we arrived at Wyoming, a small settlement in Nebraska Territory. At a short distance the tents of the Saints attracted my attention, and I soon wended my way there, finding quite a number of those who had sailed in the American Congress. We were pleased to greet each other.
After dinner I took a stroll over to one of the stores in the settlement, where I assisted in serving customers and was given my board as a recompense.
Early in the afternoon of August 2nd, we started on our long journey. Our train consisted of about sixty-five wagons. The captain's name was Rawlings, and Brother John Nicholson was chaplain.
About twenty miles was an average day's journey. The emigrants walked most of the way, riding only in the wagons at intervals to rest themselves. Each morning, before sunrise, we were aroused by the sound of the bugle. Then could be witnessed a scene of activity; all were bustling around, some going for wood, others carrying water and lighting fires.