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Show 178 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. not ascertain exactly how many, but I was credibly informed by a Mormon lady, that she knew six. Heber C. Kimball, the next in rank to Brigham Young in the church, is a noble looking man, over six feet, and well proportioned, he speaks fluently, his language is inornate, and indicates an original mind,-without cultivation. He is said to have more wives than any man in Utah-the Governor not excepted. I learned from a niece of the Governor's, that she knew personally nineteen of his wives, although he had many more. The Governor had at the time I was in the city, thirty-three children, including several grown men and women", by his first wife, who is still living with him. I was introduced by his excellency, to eleven of his wives, at the different times I visited his residence-all of them are beautiful women. Parley Pratt introduced me to his household, I numbered five or six females, I think he has but six wives. Ezra- T. Benson, one of the apostles with whom I boarded, has four wives, three are living in the same house with him, and one in a small house, a couple of rods away. He has children by all of them, and they all seemed to live very harmoniously together. I had Several conversations with these ladies on the spiritual wife system, they submit to it because they implicitly believe it to be necessary to their salvation. They argue, " Cannot a father love six children ? why can he not love six wives ?" I must say, tljat during a sojourn of near three months in Salt Lake City, I never observed the slightest indications of improper conduct, or lightness, amongst them-neither by conversation or Otherwise. Their young ladies are modest, and unas- |