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Wednesday 4 th July/55.
I have been confined to my room today with the headache, occasioned by a severe cold
that I caught yesterday after getting sweaty and then setting down in the wind. The
pioneers have been to the mountain for timber to make a coffee house. [page 207]
Thursday 5 th July/55.
This morning the boat arrived from Lahaina, no letters. Bro. Hammond was in Kula we
expect him tomorrow or next day. No thing of importance today.
Friday 6 th July/55.
Today we gathered our seed corn and raised it up. The natives are engaged in sundries
same.
Saturday 7 th July/55.
This morning my cold is quite bad. I have not much desire to stir around much. I have
kept my room nearly all the fore part of the day. Bro. Silas and Silas S. has finished
stacking wheat. This afternoon I felt a little better. I have spent the afternoon in writing.
Bro. Silas and Silas S took a walk down to the sea expecting to find the brethren there
but they had not arrived. They returned very much fatigued. Between sundown and dark
no news from Maui. The brethren will probably be over on Monday.
Sunday 8 th July/55.
This morning the mail arrived from Maui. Before I was dressed I received a letter from
Bro. Hammond. All things were moving as usual on that Island. He thought he should be
over by the middle of the week, and the brethren from that Island with him. Some of the
elders have been obliged to go to work to get cloths to come to Conference. Tended
sacrament today. [page 208]
By P.P. Pratt.
Holy, happy, pure and free,
Blessed indeed and dear to me,
Are thy loved ones,
Deseret Friends I never shall forget,
While far off my pilgrim feet shall roam,
Where O where is holy ground,
Where O where does truth abound,
Where on Earth is freedom found,
Deseret beyond thy bounds,
Where off my pilgrim feet shall roam,
I sit found on yonder shore,
Midst the heaps of shining ore,
Know the sons of truth divine,
Worship not at mammon’s shrine,
While far off my pilgrim feet shall roam,
I sit found on yonder Isle,
Where eternal verdure smiles,
Midst the fields of ever green,
Where the beauteous sky serene,
While far off my pilgrim feet shall roam, [page 209]
Läna‘i (1853-1864) – A History of the Mormon Mission at Päläwai
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