. . . I remember the conditions prevailing aboard the Chimborazo, a superb American three mast which took us from Liverpool to Philadelphia, when thus divided and installed on a lower deck, our six hundred Mormon emigrants sang together our beautiful songs of Zion in three different tongues: French, English and Welsh. Each Sunday presented a different spectacle, no less curious, on the upper deck. The main capstan was transformed into a sacred pulpit from which our choicest orators preached under open skies to all passengers and crewmen. . . . [p.145]
BIB: Bertrand, L. [Louis] A., "Memoirs of a Mormon," (typescript translation), p. 145. (CHL)
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