. . . I continued to visit both relatives and friends to bid them goodbye up to June 5th. Sister Esther gave me a fine gold ring for my wife, Harine, it was set with several fine stones. Having got all things ready and the time having arrived for me to start for home, I embraced and kissed my dear sister, Esther, who had been so kind unto me, as also her husband and all of her children had showed me great kindness. And at 8:30 a.m. the cab came and I started to railroad depot, and was soon off for Liverpool, where I arrived in due time. I paid my fare to Brother Earnest Young in the Millennial Star office, 42 Islington. For 1st cabin and passage, £15, 4 shillings, 9 demies and at 6: 40 p.m. went on board the steamship Wyoming of the Guion Line, and at 9 a.m. the morning of June 6th we started for New York.

[-] next morning the 7th of June at Queentown Harbor of [-] and cast anchor at 6 a.m. We took on 62 more passengers making in all 808 passengers, and 100 of the crew, in all 908 souls and at 12 m hoisted anchor and off again.

From the 8th to the evening of the 14th we had nasty weather. Rain, fog, strong winds, & high seas. The ship was tossed and rolled about very much and there was much seasickness among the passengers.

At 10:45 on the morning of the 17th, we took our pilot on board and reached dock at 8:30 p.m.

At 6 p.m. the 18th we started for Norfolk in Virginia on the steamship "City of Atlanta," and landed at Norfolk 7 p.m. and left on the E. T. V. [Eastern Tennessee Valley] and Virginia railroad for Memphis the same evening. On the 21st at 4 p.m. we crossed the Mississippi River with all the train on a steam ferryboat. We landed on the Arkansas [p.278] side, and at once proceeded westward and arrived in Ogden Wednesday the 24th at 3:30 p.m. I remained in Ogden until Saturday 27th and at 10:40 a.m. started for Brigham City in a buggy with Jens Jensen, my brother-in-law. Arrived there early in the afternoon, and found my family all well. . . . [p.279]

BIB: Bywater, James. Reminiscences (Ms 1803/1, pp. 278-79). (CHL).
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