. . . I sailed from Liverpool with the Saints under the charge of Elder Archibald Hill David & I occupying the same berth, and Henrietta in a berth on the other side of the vessel among the sisters. I may say here that in Liverpool Brother McMaster put an old lady or sister under my care. She was, I can't say [-] but she was fat & more than forty & had a peevish discontented disposition. She had no end of luggage & was a great annoyance to me all the time for [she] wanted to be continuously waited upon & in moving from one place to another on the journey her luggage made a vast devil of trouble. Her very old chest or bandbox had to be carried as gingerly as if it filled with eggs, and in crossing the plains she wanted to ride all the time & I am sure she weighed over two hundred & her luggage more than that & it must be placed in the wagon where she could see it & get at it all the time no matter what became of the luggage of other people or their convenience. I would not undertake such a job again for any amount of reward & with her it was all done for nothing, not even & thanks. We had a very pleasant passage to New York. Then went by steamer to Albany. Then took the cars to the fitting out place which this year was North Platte Station, about two hundred miles farther on, and [-] Omaha. Here we had to wait one month for teams & provisions. . . . [p.73]

. . . I got into Salt Lake City Saturday night at 10 o'clock. . . . [p.74]

BIB: Gibson, William. Journals (Ms 901), vol. 2, pp. 73-74. (CHL)
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