[William Clayton Journal] After traveling about seven miles we arrived at a piece of timber where the Patriarch John Smith was resting. We concluded to rest our teams here and stopped at half past 11. At 1 P.M. we started again and soon after had a heavy thunder shower. I was about a mile ahead of the wagons and having no shelter was soon completely drenched with rain. It got very cold while raining. As soon as the wagons came up we stopt till the shower was over which did not last long. We then pursued our journey till 6 o'clock camped on the open prairie a long way from timber having traveled about 16 miles. After the shower the day was fine. I was very tired and wet and after eating a little went to bed . . .
[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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