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clothing. They had to have warm covers. They had to have medical supplies. They had to have everything. Every wagon had to be fitted out with so many men and so many guns, with horses and horse feed. He described how they used to form at night with the wagons in a circle, pasturing the horses and cattle in the middle. I never had thought of them leading a cow behind a wagon. He told us all that.

He told us that on one occasion there had been a big train of Mormons outfitting there. It was a very large movement. They had been driven out of some other place where they had tried to outfit and they had come to Independence to outfit. While there, small pox broke out. The company was very sadly out to pieces by small pox. A great many sickened of it. Some died and others were very sick. It came to the time when they had to start on account of the weather. They couldn't start any later because the bad weather was coming on and they had to get going. There were still many who were sick and hadn't recovered. So they were left behind. The sick Mormons were left behind with just enough people to nurse them, the theory being that they would come out later. “But,” said Harry Hawes to me, “they've got quite a lot of Mormons there still because most of them never did get going. Some of them got well, joined some other train, got out and made connections with the first