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on so stupendous an adventure, all manner of rumors now continually

passed from one company to another It was said that five thousand

Mormons, armed to the teeth, had crossed the river at St Joseph and

were lying in wait on the Platte, detere for the

persecutions they had suffered in Missouri and Illinois Another story

said that the Kaw Indians, hitherto friendly, had banded together for

robbery and were only waiting for the train to appear A still lishes to waylay and destroy the

caravans, thus to wreak the vengeance of England upon the Yankees for

the loss of Oregon Much unrest arose over reports, hard to trace, to

the effect that it was all a on; that in reality it

was a truly horrible country, unfit for hurave of any lucky enough to survive the horrors of the trail,

which never yet had been truthfully reported Some returned travelers

fro about the landing at