CHAPTER LV.

Called on a Mission to Great Britain--Prepare to Depart--Start Without Purse or Scrip--Journey to Salt Lake City--Set Apart for the Mission --Begin the Journey Eastward--Organization of the Company--My Post as Chaplain--Overtaken by Apostles A. M. Lyman and C. C. Rich--Traveling Through the Mountains--Snowstorms and Wind--Forage is Scarce--Meetings with the Indians--Captain Reynolds' Exploring Party--Army Deserters in our Camp--Mail from Home--Emigrants Westward Bound--Dissatisfaction In Camp--Feeling about Apostles Lyman and Rich--I Resign as Captain, but am Elected again, and Finally Resume Command--Mail Robbery--More Disagreeable Storms--Meet a Handcart Company and Apostle George Q. Cannon--Reach the Missouri River--Visit my Father and his Family--Go to St. Joseph, Missouri--My first View of a Railway Train--At my old Home in Brown County, Illinois--Journey Eastward by Rail--Arrive in New York for the First Time--Find Friends.