Saints by SeaFeb. 1 went on board the Henry Ware.
2. Wet and uncomfortable and went to [-] the Great Britain.
3. Still in dock fine weather.
4. Still in docks, spoke in Music Hall Liverpool. Weather fine.
5. Left the dock at 9 o'clock in the morning and cast anchor in the River Mersey. The morning very fine.
6. In the river still waiting for fair wind weather very fine passengers getting short on provisions a correction made for them.
7. Still in the river taken out of [p.1] 12 at morn by a steam tug. A brother died about 5. Could not stand the heaving of the vessel. He was in a consumption. A very rough night in the Irish Channel nearly all the Saints very seasick.
8. Windy the Saints very sick.
9. Rough weather much sickness.
10. Weather fine a good wind. The ship making great progress.
11. Sunday meeting and [-] a couple married by Brother Martin. A many of the Saints still sick. Very fine weather sailing [-] fast in the Great [p.2] Atlantic Ocean.
12. Fair wind sailing fast winds Saints still sick.
13. No wind, the night as been very uncomfortable. In the evening a good wind. Are making great progress.
14. A good wind. Many of Saints sick.
15. Good wind, the Saints in poor in health.
16. Very warm weather. A good wind. The ship making great progress. A council meeting and a sister put off her unrighteousness with one of the ship's crew. [p.3]
17. Fine weather nearly all the Saints recovered their health. A council meeting to form [-] for forking &c.
18. Sunday a meeting at 2. The ordinance preaching a 6. Very fine weather. Fair wind. One couple married by Brother Martin. Saw a fine whale. The health of the Saints better.
19. Fine weather a good wind. A great many porpoises playing about the vessel. A couple married by Brother Martin a porpoise speared by the first mate about 200. The Saints in tolerable good health.
20. The [-] fine weather fair wind. Dined of the porpoise caught yesterday. Caught another today about 300 pounds. [p.4]
21. Good wind the glass at ship. [UNCLEAR] The shade in the sun 35 Celsius some of the Saints unwell since today, of a porpoise.
22. The wind in the variable the glass rather [-] than yesterday very hot all in good spirits.
23. As yesterday.
24. A good wind very hot.
25. A calm the whole of the day.
26. Very squallish all day and night.
27. A heavy sea. The Saints very sick.
28. A heave sea a deal of thunder, lightning a rain contrary winds the Saints very sick.
March 1. Very fine a good wind [-]
2. Hot day. A calm all day [p.5] a porpoise killed. The Saints better.
3. Very squallish, the wind contrary. The Saints very well.
4. Fine weather, the wind the same as yesterday, a meeting in the evening on the deck.
5. Very squallish, hail with wind.
6. Contrary winds, very stormy.
7. The same as yesterday.
8. Head wind all day. Very fine weather. A total eclipse of the moon about 9 at night, quite visible, a handsome sight.
9. Warm weather, contrary wind.
10. The wind still unfavorable. [p.6] Brother Comes has child born this day.
11. Sunday. Weather very [-] wind unfavorable .
[12.] Fine day, a calm all day.
[13.] Fine day, fair wind.
[14.] Fine weather, good wind.
15. Calm the ship at 105 in the sun, in the shade 95, very hot.
16. Very hot, a calm. [-] seen.
17. Spoke to a vessel from [-] and [-] for Philadelphia.
18. Warm, calm.
19. A little wind.
20. A good wind.
21. A good wind. [p.7]
22. At St. Domingo good wind, the weather very fine in view of the of the island all day.
23. A good wind. Still in full view of St. Domingo. The Saints in good spirits. Very hot weather.
24. Still at St. Domingo till 9 in the morning and then in sight of the island of Cuba. A most delightful view of it the whole of the day, we sailed very near to it. The weather very fine, heavy rains at night, very hot.
25. Sunday. Still close to Cuba. Very little wind, a very hot day. A calm night. The Saints in good health, generally some of the [-] the [-] I ever saw. [p.8]
26. Calm day. The [-] a 75 in the shade, cannot make much progress. We saw a lighthouse on the coast of Cuba. At night a deal of lightning and squallish with contrary winds. Still off Cuba.
27. Within sight of Cuba. A good wind. The pleasant the rainbow in sight the island of the Cayman a West Indian island.
28. A fine morning, fair wind. The Saints and the other inhabitants on the look out for it [-].
29. A good wind and fine weather [p.9] weather [SIC]. All in good spirits. Very hot weather.
30. Very fine and hot, very little wind.
31. Very hot, very little wind. March nearly a calm at Cape Antonio. The furthest point of Cuba.
2. Entered Gulf of Mexico yesterday morning at 9 in the morning. A good wind, very hot preparing for the steamer.
3. A full, fair wind. Very [-] the [-] much the Saints unwell.
4. A good wind, doing well.
5. A calm wind and very hot [-] seen. [p.10]
April 9 left St. Louis for the Salt Lake. . . . [p.11]
. . . May 25 arrived at Kanesville. A fast held in Kanesville August 22. [ABRUPT END OF ACCOUNT] [p.12]
BIB: Booth, John. Diary, pp. 1-12. (CHL)
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