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Show 162 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. which she had been brought up. Finding that she would not consent, Golightly determined to emigrate to the valleys of Ephraim, the " land flowing with milk and honey." To this step also his wife refused to accede, whereupon he sold out his bakery and accumulating all the ready money he wanted for his purpose, left his family (not in want,-for they had an income sufficient to live on), but without a protector, and took passage, along with many others, in a vessel from Liverpool, bound direct to New York. After his arrival in New York, the company proceeded to St. Louis, up the Missouri to Independence, and thence, overland to Salt Lake City, where he arrived in good condition, and with the small means at his command, he built the shop and house in which I found him. He liked his new residence, and made arrangements for his family. He wrote to his wife, requesting her to sell off the property, and come over to the Valley, among the mountains, and join him, as he intended to spend the remainder of his days there. When the old lady received this letter, she determined to brave all the dangers of a long voyage across the Atlantic, the perils of the mountains and prairies, and rejoin her beloved old man, with whom she had spent so many hours of happiness, and with whom she determined to end her life. With the assistance of kind friends, all her effects were converted into money, and she had just £200 with which to commence the journey. Her three daughters and a young son accompanied her. Passing over her terrible sea-sickness and difficulties which attended her sea-voyage, she arrived jn due time at New York, where she purchased " through" |