. . . We now made preparations to leave our native land with a company of emigrants led by a Utah elder. We left Aalborg about June 10th for Copenhagen where we left June 12, and after three days on the steamboat Waldemar, arrived in Hull, England; crossing that land to Liverpool, where we remained a few days, preparatory to our voyage across the Atlantic. We went on board the steamboat Manhattan and after 12 days arrived at New York, the 4th of July. We were over 600 emigrants, nearly all Scandinavians, a few English and some from Holland, also a lot of Irish people not Mormons. The leader of the Scandinavians was Niels Wilhemsen [Wilhelmsen], a man beloved and highly respected by all who knew him. We sailed up the [p.74] Hudson to Albany, then went by rail to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Detroit, and Chicago, then to St. Joseph, Missouri, from there by boat on the
Missouri River to Omaha. We were encamped there for two days when we took train on the Union Pacific Railroad to North Platte, the terminus 300 miles. We camped three weeks, had some sickness and deaths among the emigrants.

We were fitted out with oxen and new Schettler wagons for the 700 miles balance of the journey to Salt Lake City, also with provisions consisting of fat bacon and flour, etc. Our oxen were in splendid condition - this is what is termed an independent train consisting of 60 teams with four oxen on each wagon. The captain of the train was Elder Rice of Farmington, assisted by returning elders. . .This journey of 700 miles was on foot all the way from North Platte City, leaving the 11th of August and arriving at Salt Lake City, the 5th of October, 1867. . . . [p.75]

BIB: Jensen, Jens Iver, [Autobiography], Our Pioneer Heritage, comp. By Kate B. Carter, vol. 10 (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1967) p. 74-75. (CHL)
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