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Show COME FROM. 169 A voyage of four or six weeks, under favorable circum stances, lands them in New York City, when the saints find accommodations, like other immigrants, in Castle Gar den, until arrangements are completed for their transporta tion by rail to the Missouri River. About three days are required for this. At one time immigrants were landed at New Orleans, and went thence up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to some point where their trains met them for their overland journey. This route, however, has been abandoned entirely, as an unhealthy and expensive one, and not so expeditious. From New York the immigrants are hurried through the States in cars provided for that class of travellers, without any opportunities of observing the country or the people, and soon reach a point near Omaha, whence they com mence their trip over the plains. Often they arrive in advance of the trains, which are liable to delays occasioned by the high water in streams at the season they start, and the exposed people suffer much from sickness. From their debarkation at New York, to their arrival in Salt Lake City, they are without medical attendance, and the sick die, or recover, as the unaided powers of nature may decide the case. The hardships to which they are subjected, combined with a want of cleanliness, loss of rest, improper diet, exposure, & c., often thwart the recuperative powers of nature, and many a Mormon lies buried on the plains, who with a little care and attention, might have been saved. The employment of a doctor, under any cir cumstances, is regarded as an evidence of weakness of faith. The power of healing is supposed to be in the laying on of hands, which is the only means used. The large mor tality in a healthy country, is evidence against their system as well as the conclusions of Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote that if all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea it would be a good deal better for mankind and a good deal worse for the fishes. Every spring the owners of wagons and teams among the Mormons of Utah are required to furnish, accord- |