[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 2d Sunday All were Busy cooking & saving thare meat. In the Afternoon we moved up 3 miles for Better feed & camped by the side of a large slew of water. Our camping place last night & this morning was at the Head of grand Island.
Professor Pratt took an observation for the Lattitude & found it to be 40°41'42". This agrees with Freemonts obervation within 2 miles & his was on the south side of the river which was 2 miles south of our camping place.
We came through another large dog town to day. Soon After we camped A herd of Buffalo came from the Bluffs to the river to drink within about 2 miles of us & then returned to the Bluffs. Some were Anxious to go after them but as it was Sunday Br Young thought it best to let them be untill to morrow.
The Indians set fire to the Prairie before us which burnt rapedly over a large region of country. Brs Young Kimball & several others went several miles in the evening on our rout to examine the fire & other things. Distance 3 miles.
[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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