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Show Page 83 once again heavy gales and debilitating nausea. After a week the tempest broke with full fury; Brigham Young, seeing the cargo ropes giving way between decks, shouted for the other apostles. Kimball, Willard Richards, and Orson threw themselves against the heavy mass to brace it until it could be secured by the ship hands. Wilford Woodruff was thrown headfirst across the galley, nearly killing the cook. All in all, a violent passage which ended, exactly one month after departure, among the thieving 15 draymen and pickpockets of New York harbor. Orson elected to remain in New York City until the first of July, arranging for re-publication of his pamphlet in 5,000 copies - at this point it was entitled "History of the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon." He returned to Nauvoo rapidly thereafter, by way of Sackets Harbor where he took on his wife's sister for the journey. Moving into a house "a few rods north of the Temple Block" in Nauvoo, Orson immediately advertised for sale a large stock of booklets by himself and his brother - the new pamphlet sold for twelve and a half cents, or six dollars per hundred. Thus did Orson face the press of providing for his wife and son, whom he had not seen for nearly two years. Economically, though the national picture was bleak and the state of Illinois verging on bankruptcy, Nauvoo had flourished since the first miserable gathering in 1839, and politicians vied for the considerable electoral and monetary treasure the Mormons represented. Orson shared somewhat in the prosperity, acquiring title to two small, narrow tracts of property, one near the temple block and another by the river. Rather than trading to support his family, he signed on to teach at the fledgling "University of the City of Nauvoo," 16 the only municipal college in America at the time. Within a few days of his return from England, Orson was installed in the chair of the "Department of English literature and mathematics" of |