[William Clayton Journal] We started early in the morning and soon came up with the main body of the camp. I rode ahead about three miles to hunt my cow. We did not have her last night being with the main camp. We traveled 9 or 10 miles and then rested our teams. We started again and traveled three miles further where we found the president and Heber [Kimball] camped on the brink of a long bluff. We concluded to go to the other bank which we did and camped in a good place. In the evening the band went and played for the President and Heber and then went to a farm house at the owners request about 3/4 of a mile from camp to play for his family. He promised to give us some honey if we would play for him. We played about an hour and then left but saw nor heard anything of the honey. We learned afterwards however that [J. F.] Hutchinson had a pail under his cloak and got it full of honey after the rest had left the house and kept it to himself, very slyly.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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