interfere with his assuming control of affairs in the valley when the khan should die, unless, indeed, Adee's marriage should interpose an obstacle in the shape of a rival aspirant. This event he determined to prevent by marrying Adee himself, and he therefore watched every movement of the maiden with jealousy, incited both by ambition and love. The intimacy and favor enjoyed by the strangers in the khan's household had occasioned in him no fear of rivalry, however, till the occurrence of the event before mentioned, served to arouse his direst suspicious.

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From a window of the palace, one day, he had seen Greyton walking in the rose garden with Adee and Ulzinah. As this event was of daily occurrence, it, in itself, caused no alarm; but presently, as the Turkish duenna turned for a moment to bend over a rose tree, Aziz saw Greyton raise Adee's hand to his lips. The sight filled Aziz with fury. At once his mind became darkened with suspicion. Why had these strangers tarried so long in the valley? Their interest in the tombs suddenly appeared to him in the light of a cunning pretext. They had d' layed their wares and inspected the ausoleums-why had they not departed? He suddenly called to mind the inquiries made by Abdar in regard to the English chieftain who had once dwelt here. What if these strangers were descendants of the Christian knight, come to set up a claim for an inheritance in the valley! He had a dim knowledge of such things transpiring in the outer world, and this idea and that it was their intention that one of them should wed Adee, for the purpose that they might better carry out their plans, at once took root in his mindfilling his heart with hatred and anger. He determined to lose no time in divulging their treacherous scheme to the khan, understanding his violent nature well enough to know that it would arouse his fury against the strangers. He reckoned rightly. The khan's anger flamed like a furnace upon hearing Aziz' well-told story of the Englishmen's designs. Abdar was summoned to inform the strangers that it was the khan's com

mand that they should take their departture from the valley on the morrow. Abdar, filled with consternation at the violent anger shown by the khan, went in haste to the Englishmen's apartments to deliver his message. Danvers was at work near the tombs, but he found Greyton with Ulzinah and Adee, in the garden of roses. Trembling with excitement, he repeated his news. Adee turned pale. Greyton was dumbfounded, but was sure that all could be made right through mutual explanation. Abdar, remembering the khan's exhibition of anger, shook his head. Adee shared his doubts.

It was night. The sky rained a blinding sleet of stars. In the garden, outside Adee's apartment, Abdar was conversing with Ulzinah.

"It is impossible," the latter was saying; "they would refuse to open the gates. The women are never allowed to leave the valley after sundown."

"What is to be done?" asked Abdar. "The khan will never consent to let Adee leave the valley with the strangers." "Never," returned Ulzinah. "Yet she loves him?" "Yes."

"Would she go with him if a plan were provided for her escape?"

“With joy,” returned the duenna. Abdar recited the story of the parchment found in the cave.

"Do you know anything of this secret passage through the mountain?" "I know it well; it is on the western side of the valley."

"Is it wide enough for horses to pass through?"

"Yes."

"Will you show us the way there tonight?"

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A steamer was nearing the English coast. From the shore a faint sound was wafted, growing clearer each moment, and filling the air with a joyous cadence.

"What is it?" asked Adee, wonderingly of her husband, upon whose arm she was leaning.

"It is the sound of the Christmas chimes;" returned Greyton. "A fitting welcome, Adee, to the home of your English ancestor. I wonder if it is not something of a recompense to him, if he knows to-day, that you have received their message."

Josephine Spencer.

LIFE AND LABORS GARDEN GROVE is situated on a branch of Grand River. The land had been vacated a few months before by the Indians. The following Sabbath after their encampment at this place, two meetings were held and the Saints were addressed by four of the Twelve, viz: John Taylor, in the forenoon; Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Orson Pratt in the afternoon. Having concluded to make a settlement upon these lands, and put in spring crops for the benefit of the Saints who should follow them, the next morning at six o'clock the horn sounded, and all the men assembled themselves together to be organized for labor. One hundred men were appointed to split rails, forty-eight to cut logs and build log houses, several were appointed to build a bridge, a number to dig wells, others to wood their plows, several for herdsmen to watch the stock and keep them from straying, and some to be sent out to the settlements to trade off horses, feather beds, etc., for cows and provisions; and finally, the whole camp were to be occupied about something. During this council for organization they were drenched in rain. After the dismissal of the council, Elder Orson Pratt met in council with the authorities and heard some letters read from Nauvoo, asking advice relative to selling the Temple at that place. A decision in this matter was

OF ORSON PRATT. deferred until the next day, when the subject was taken up and discussed. It was considered that inasmuch as they had been driven from their inheritances and homes and from the Temple, that all sales of their property were but forced sales, and, for the purpose of keeping a poor people from perishing, they felt that they would be justified by their Heavenly Father in selling under such circumstances. At this council it was also proposed to send a company of men, without families, across the mountains with seed, grain, farming utensils, and provisions, to make preparations for those who should follow.

On the 29th day of April, 1846, the people were all called together at twelve o'clock. The subject of selling the Temple at Nauvoo was laid before them and they decided, by a unanimous vote, to sell it; and they also decided to sell the Temple and other church property at Kirtland, Ohio. At this meeting the captains of fifties were instructed to ascertain and report what means could be raised in their companies to fit out the expedition to the west of the Rocky Mountains. During the evening, Orson Pratt obtained an observation of the pole star, and found the latitude to be 40° 52'.

On April 30th, information was received that several hundred wagons were on

their way from Nauvoo, being strung along the road for more than one hundred miles from that city. It was expected that another settlement, about thirty-five or forty miles north of Garden Grove, would be formed, and a spring crop put in, and also another on the Big Platte River one hundred miles or more west of the Missouri.

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From the first to the eleventh of May, Orson Pratt assisted the brethren fencing the field, building log houses, bridges, etc., and he frequently met in council with the Twelve and others, and when the weather would permit, took observations for the latitude, longitude, and the true time. Notwithstanding the bad weather, an immense amount of work had been accomplished in the various departments of business.

On the eleventh of May, Orson Pratt, in company with his brother Parley and some of his company of fifty, who were in readiness, left Garden Grove and traveled westward about six miles and encamped at a point of timber, where they stopped until the thirteenth, when they again started upon their journey west ward, traveling several days through the rain, over trackless, broken prairies, and bridging the streams, which were very much swollen by the falling rain. Finding a beautiful place on the middle fork of Grand River, Orson Pratt and company resolved to await the arrival of the main camp which joined them on the evening of the eighteenth. This place was named by Parley P. Pratt, Mt Pisgah.

At this point a council was held, in which it was decided that the Twelve, and those whom they should select, should go across the mountains and pioneer the way for those who should follow, and that the remainder of the people should tarry for a season on the Pottawattamie lands, and cultivate the same, if the Indians owning the lands, would consent. Brother Sherwood was sent to a portion of that tribe, encamped about fifty miles north-west, to obtain permission. The people being called together, the decision of the council was laid before them in great plainness by Elders Young, Kimball, P. P. Pratt, and

Bishop Miller, when some few yoke of oxen and one or two wagons were offered for the mountain expedition. The next day the people were again called together and addressed by President Young, who requested them to separate into two parties, that it might be determined who were intending to stay and cultivate the land for a season, and who were going west with the Twelve. A great majority were for going west immediately, if the Twelve went; thus rendering it impossible to properly fit out the expedition, in consequence of so many wanting to go.

President Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, Parley P. Pratt, John Taylor, Geo. A. Smith and many others, with large companies, proceeded onward towards Council Bluffs; but Orson Pratt remained at Mount Pisgah until June 7th, several days later, in consequence of not having wagons and teams sufficient to get along with. During his stay here, a large number of the Saints arrived from Nauvoo; the most of whom passed on for the Bluffs, intending to go with the first company. Others remained at the farm, not having sufficient means for an outfit. Elder Orson Hyde also arrived with a large company. At this place Sister Louisa Chandler Pratt, one of Elder Orson Pratt's wives was taken sick with a billious fever, which turned into the typhus fever. Dr. Clinton was consulted, and thinking that journeying on might not injure her, but perhaps do her good, and having procured three additional wagons with some additional teams, Elder Pratt and family left Mount Pisgah and proceeded on for several days until they reached the Platte River. Finding Sister Louisa dangerously sick, they halted and pitched their tent upon a narrow neck of land on the west bank of the Platte, the place being comfortably shaded by large black-walnut trees. Sister Louisa continued to get worse during the day, and before sundown became speechless, and about 10:30 o'clock p.m. she breathed her last. cording to her request, she was laid out in her robe and other garments which she had worn in the Nauvoo Temple.

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The next morning a place was searched out on the east bank of the Platte, two Indian graves being but a few rods distant. Her coffin consisted of four slabs of bass-wood with thick bark at the head and foot, The funeral took place at twelve o'clock noon, and the people were addressed by R. D. Sprague. A large company of Saints from Michigan was present. Elder Pratt cut the following letters in a tree which stood at the foot of the grave, namely: "L. C. P. died June 12th, 1846.”

After the close of these sad rites, and towards evening, the journey westward was resumed. Quite a number of the Pottawattamie Indians visited the company at their various camping places and appeared quite friendly. In passing through one of their villages, and as they were crossing the two forks of the Nishnabotona river, scores of their men, women and children collected around.

On June 17th they arrived in the neighborhood of the main encampment near a little village of whites and half-breeds on the Missouri river. A large number of the Pottawattamies also resided in this vicinity. Here was also the residence of the Indian agent; and a branch of the American Fur Company's establishment was located here. At this place the great chief of the Pottawattamies, who was an educated man, visited the camp. He spoke English fluently and welcomed the people to the use of the timber upon his lands, while they tarried for the purpose of making an outfit. A Mr. Sarpee and one of his men who had just arrived from the mountains, also visited the encampment and gave much information in relation to the great West. Mr. Sarpee was a wealthy merchant engaged in the American Fur Company's business. From him a job of work was secured by the camp to freight about ninety thousand pounds of buffalo robes, furs, etc, from the head of Grand Islandsome two hundred and twenty miles west of this place for which Mr. Sarpee engaged to pay one thousand dollars in cash, together with some provisions, a horse and other things. Preparations were made, and wagons and teams sent

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some sixty or eighty miles down the river into the settlements to obtain cows, and provisions, for the great western expedition.

It was during Elder Orson Pratt's stay at this place that the famous call was made by the Federal Government, for the Saints to furnish five hundred young men to march to California, and take part in the war with Mexico. This call was made by Captain James Allen of the United States army, who arrived at Mount Pisgah, Iowa, on June 26, 1846, and presented the Saints, who were temporarily located there, with a circular calling for five hundred of their young and most able-bodied men. Suffice it to say, without entering into detail, this body of men was raised, and the history of this famous Mormon Battalion forms one of the most notable pages in the events of modern times.*

Having obtained some supplies from the Missouri settlements, Orson Pratt, with his company, pushed on to Cuttler's Park and from thence to Winter Quarters, where the dreary winter of 1846-7 was shared with the Saints in their joy and in their sufferings.

In the spring of 1847, leaving his family in Winter Quarters, he started with the Pioneer Company, consisting of one hundred and forty-eight persons, and arrived in the Great Salt.Lake Valley, July 21st, 1847, he and Erastus Snow being some two or three days in advance of the main companies.

To give the reader a more detailed statement of the arrival of these advancing pioneers, we extract the following from the private journal of Orson Pratt:

"Wednesday, July 21, 1847.—No frost this morning, but a heavy dew. We resumed our journey, came two and a half miles and ascended a mountain for one and a half miles; descended upon the west side one mile; came upon a swift running creek, where we halted for noon; we called this Last Creek. Brother Erastus Snow (having overtaken our camp from the other camp, which he said was but a few miles in the rear) and myself pro*See Daniel Tyler's History of the Mormon Battalion.

ceeded, in advance of the camp, down Last Creek four and a half miles, to where it passes through a cañon and issues into the broad open valley below. To avoid the cañon the wagons, last season, had passed over an exceedingly steep and dangerous hill. Brother Snow and myself ascended this hill, from the top of which a broad open valley, about twenty miles wide and thirty long, lay stretched out before us, at the north end of which, the broad waters of the great Salt Lake glistened in the sunbeams, containing high mountainous islands from twenty-five to thirty miles in extent. After issuing from the mountains, among which we had been shut up for many days, and beholding in a moment such extensive scenery open before us, we could not refrain from a shout of joy, which almost involuntarily escaped from our lips the moment this grand and lovely scenery was within our view. We immediately descended very gradually into the lower parts of the valley, and although we had but one horse between us, yet we traversed a circuit of about twelve miles before we left the valley to return to our camp, which we found encamped one and a half miles up the ravine from the valley, and three miles in advance of their noon halt. It was about nine o'clock in the evening when we got into camp. The main body of the Pioneers who were in the rear, were encamped only one and a half miles up the creek from us, with the exception of some wagons containing some who were sick, who were still behind."

Orson Pratt, in reality, was the first one of the Pioneers to set foot upon the site of where Salt Lake City is located. In detailing, by word of mouth, the ac count of the trip of that eventful day, the writer heard his father say, that soon after leaving the mouth of the (Emigra tion) cañon, Brother Erastus Snow dis covered that he had lost his coat off the horse they had between them, and he retraced his steps in search of the lost garment. Orson Pratt continued his journey farther down into the valley, and in making his circuitous route he came upon the waters of City Creek,

and traversed the land where the Temple Block and central portions of the city are now located. After having traveled thus far on foot and alone, he turned his course southward and met Brother Snow on the creek several miles below where it issues from the mouth of Emigration Cañon, and from thence the two returned to the camp in the cañon.

The next day-July 22-Orson Pratt and George A. Smith, accompanied by seven others, rode down and explored a portion of the northern part of the valley. They visited the warm and hot springs issuing from the base of the mountains, and continued their journey northward towards the Great Salt Lake. Finding the soil, as they proceeded, unfit for agricultural purposes, they returned and found their wagons encamped about five and a half miles from where they had left the cañon.

The following day--July 23—John Pack and Joseph Matthews were sent back to the rear camps, which were still in the mountains, to inform President Young and the brethren who were with him, of the discoveries and explorations made by the advance companies. The camp moved about two miles north and encamped on the stream subsequently known as City Creek, in the locality of of what is now the Eighth Ward of Salt Lake City.

At this place the camp was called to. gether and Orson Pratt offered up prayer and thanksgiving in behalf of the Pioneers, all of whom had been so wonderfully preserved on the whole journey from the Missouri River to the valley; and he dedi. cated the camp and the land unto which they had come, to the Lord, imploring His blessings upon their labors and all that pertained unto them. The meeting was addressed by Willard Richards and Orson Pratt, and various committees were appointed to attend to different branches of business, preparatory to putting in crops, and in about two hours after their arrival, they began ploughing about where Godbe's Drug store now stands, and that same afternoon they built a dam to divert water, with which to irrigate the soil.