Eliza Roxcy Snow

“ Brother Joseph F. Smith, as he afterwards stated, had some misgivings about going in that boat, but the manifestation was not sufficiently strong to indicate any general accident. He preferred to remain on board the ' vessel until the boat returned. The boat started for the shore. It contained some barrels and boxes, the captain, a white man, two or three native passengers, and the boat's crew, who were also natives.
The entrance to the harbor is a very narrow passage between coral reefs, and when the sea, is rough, it is very dangerous, on account of the breakers. ”

“ During this time, Walter M. Gibson, a man of deep scheming policy, came to Utah professed to adopt the faith of the Latter-day Saints, was baptized, took a short mission to the Eastern States, and when he returned started immediately for the Sandwich Islands, and there palmed himself on the unsus- pecting natives as a superior personage, authorized by and superior to President Brigham Young, and claimed the presi- dency over all the Pacific isles. ”

“ Our coach swayed fear- fully the wheels ever and anon striking fire as they whirled over the rocks, with a double span of horses upon a keen run, tossing us up and down, giving us a few hard strokes of the head against the cover of the coach.
At length Elder Benson, in a tremulous yet powerful voice, demanded of the driver to moderate his speed, which was responded to by an increased and more furious lashing of the foaming, panting steeds; thus, and more, with a drunken coachman (as we afterwards learned) , we tore along down the mountain, every moment in jeopardy of being dashed to ”

“ In such extreme cases of excite- ment, we seem to live hours in a minute, and a volume of thoughts crowd themselves into one single moment. It was so with me in that perilous scene.
Having been somewhat subject to faint, I think that after a few moments in the water I must have fainted, as, I did not suffer the pain common in the experience of drowning persons. I had been in the water .only a few moments, until I lost consciousness. The first I knew afterwards, I was on shore, receiving the kind and tender attentions of my brethren. ”

“ Nothing yet had been seen of Brother Snow, although the natives had been swimming and diving in every direction in search of him. We were only about one-fourth of a mile from shore. The people, as soon as .they discovered our circumstances, manned a life boat and hurried to the rescue. ”

“ Whether the causes of these variations exist originally iii their organizations, or are the result of a life training, may he a subject' for philosophical discussion, but facts definitely prove that some people are made up of opposite elements, the proof -of which one may visibly notice by waiting and observing, as in the case now instanced. ”

“ It is true, so far as the tremendous jolting was concerned, we had decidedly the advantage of Horace Greeley in his ludicrous lone stage-ride over the same road, inasmuch as five of us could maintain a 1 tetter balance than a lone man. ”

“ Mission to the Sandwich Islands. -Elders called home. Walter M. Gibson. Goes to the Sandwich Islands. His perfidy. Lorenzo, with other Elders, sent to investigate. Take Stage. Arrive at a mining town. Incident. New driver. Favorable impressions. Sings melodiously. Swears blasphemously. Drives furiously. Perilous predicament. Other perils. Arrive at San Francisco. At Brother Eveleth's. Take, steamer. Arrive near the landing at Lahaina. Boat upset. Lorenzo and the Captain drowned. Both restored to life. ”

“ On arriving at a small mining town one Sunday morning about sunrise, our stage-man drove to the post office to exchange 'mail bags; just then a negro rushed out of a saloon directly in front of our horses, and had barely crossed the street, w r hen a white-man in his shirt-sleeves hurried out of the door from whence the negro came, with revolver in hand, and fired several shots in the direction in which the negro was run- ning. ”