[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 29th A Cool morning. The camp started at 5 oclok without feeding. Drove 3 miles & stoped & Bated & Breakfasted. The Hunters went up the Island. Grand Island is well supplyed with rushes & cottonwood; Wood Creek is Heavily wooded for this country. We are begining to get a good bide of grass for our Horses & Cattle.
Professor Pratt at 7 h 30 m AM took a Bar observation on wood creek at our camping place. Mercury in the Bar. standing at 27.979 inch Attached Ther 61.5° detached Ther 60.2°S. wind. Fair.
We travled 8 miles & nooned. Travled in the afternoon 10 miles & camped on the Borders of grand Island. The Island of this place was thickly coverd with rushes upon which we fed our Horses. I went out with the Hunters. We saw about 30 Antelope & 8 deer. The Antelope would play around on the large plains & keep out of our way so we should not shoot them. They mostly went towards wood creek which we had forded in the morning & left to our right. The ford was good. We shot 4 geese. I shot two of them & one deer but did not get the deer. We find places on the main land bordering upon grand Island coverd with white substance resembling salt & taste quite saltish. We camped for the night. Distance of the day 20 m.
[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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