Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

Chapter 6
Western Itinerary
The Sabbath following the Vergennes meeting,
Elder Cornell and I met with the little company at
Grand Rapids. We were told that a steamer crossed
Lake Michigan from Grand River to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, so we planned to cross, taking our
horse and carriage, and labor among the scattered
brethren in the West.
On Monday we started for the mouth of the
Grand River on the Lake Michigan shore. Thinking
to make the distance in half a day, we did not take
much food, but to our dismay we had a forty-mile
drive. After eating our meager lunch we became
hungry by two o'clock. While passing through a
grove of pine trees, we came upon a half-acre
thickly covered with wintergreen plants. What a
sight of berries we could pluck by the handful!
This find well supplied our lack of food.
Toward evening we stopped at a hotel by the
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