[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 18th Head wind. We are running South. It is not so cold as yesterday yet it is quite uncomfortable. We had a rough rocking night. I was quite unwell.
I have spent most of the last two days in reading the travels of Edward Daniel Clark, L.L.D. through Russia Tartary And Turkey which I found to be highly interesting. His Style of writing is quite similar to that of Stephen. He draws however A Horrid picture of the whole Russin Nation. He speaks of the Cossacks vary highly. He considers the meanest of them superior to the most noble of the Russian. No Nation that He visited but what he gave A better character than the Russion.
[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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