372 SALT LAKE CITY. 



the illustrious author of " Cosmos." Here several 

 Red Indians, men and women of the Snake tribe, with 

 coarse, broad features painted red, and long black 

 hair, begged to be taken up, as they had reason to fear 

 an attack from the murderous Apaches, who inhabit 

 the country to the north and east of this. They soon 

 formed picturesque groups on the coal tender and on 

 the steps of the cars, and off we went agam, depositing 

 our supercargo at the next station. A couple of 

 hundred miles farther the northern point of Salt Lake 

 came in view, — a pleasant diversion after the bare 

 mountain scenery of the last two days, — and skirting 

 its north-eastern shore until we reached Ogden, we 

 thence branched off through a fertile valley, with here 

 and there large patches of borage and wormwood, to the 

 Mormon city, whose despotic patriarch, Brigham Young, 

 (since dead) styled himself President of the twelve 

 apostles of the latter-day saints. 



Salt Lake City is a rambling sort of place, oifering no 

 attraction to strangers. There is the tabernacle, an 

 ugly, ill shapen, oval building ; also the foundation of a 

 large, more pretentious- looking temple, which is not 

 likely to be ever completed ; wretched shops and very 

 few villas of a better class, belonging principally to 

 Y^oung and his seventeen wives to many of whom he 



