. . . I started from Liverpool assisting in charge of a company of 620 Latter-day Saints, and we were 30 days on the sea; so we were a little ahead of the original Utah pioneers, because they were not pioneers of the waters. We had some very tempestuous times and at others very joyful occasions, but we arrived, most of us, in safety at New York, after 30 days in an old sailing tub called the Underwriter. Nine days we were traveling on the railroads, two days up the river, eleven weeks from the Missouri River to Salt Lake. That was the time occupied by me and the company with which I traveled on my first trip to Utah. . . . [p. 7]

BIB: Penrose, Charles W., "Pioneers of 1847 Recount Experiences of the Journey Across the Plains and Life in the Old Forts in the Valley," Deseret Evening News (August 14, 1920), sec. IV, p. 7. (CHL)
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