CHAPTER XVI. 



Incidents of a Return Trip from Santa Fe— Calibre of oar Party 

 ■Return Caravans — Remittances— Death of Mr. Langham 

 Burial in the Desert— A sudden Attack — Confusion in the 

 Camp — A Wolfish Escort — Scarcity of Buffalo— Unprofita- 

 ble Delusion— Arrival— Table of Camping Sites and Dis- 

 tances—Condition of the Tovm of Independence— The Mor- 

 mons — Their Dishonesty and Immorality — Their high-handed 

 Measures, and a Rising of the People— A fatal Skirmish— 

 A chivalrous Parade of the Citizens — Expulsion of the Mor- 

 mons — The Meteoric Shower, and Superstition, etc. — Wan- 

 derings and Improprieties of the 'Latter-day Saints' — Gov, 

 Boggs' Recipe— The City of Nauvoo— Contemplated Retribu- 

 tion of the Mormons. 



I DO not propose to detain the reader with 

 an account of my journeyings between Mexico 

 and the United States, during the seven years 

 subsequent to my first arrival at Santa Fe. 

 I will here merely remark, that I crossed the 

 plains to the United States in the falls of 1833 

 and 1836, and returned to Santa Fe with 

 goods each succeeding spring. It was only 

 in 1838, however, that I eventually closed up 

 my affairs in Northern Mexico, and prepared 

 to take my leave of the countr}--, as I then 

 supposed, for ever. But in this I was mis- 

 taken, as will appear in the sequel. 



The most usual season for the return of the 



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