[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 11th We have this morning A strong South East wind with fore & main top gallant sails set. We run 13 nots an hour on the course. This is truly incourageing And things are turning in our favor. They have so much canvass up it tries the whole strength of the ship. Most ships with the same wind would be under closs reef top sails.
I spent the day in writing. A gale struck us at 4 oclok. Though the wind was fare the ship was immediately put under closs reef top sail & they let her drive on her course. Some of the time strong gusts would strike her And make her tremble. It was the roughest night we have had on the voyage but the Byrometer to day speaks of a still greater storm ahead. Seas are vary high.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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