We had all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the Thursday; but when the Thursday came there was no occasion for our testimony.

Our prisoner's furious resistance did not apparently indicate any ferocity in his disposition towards ourselves, for on finding himself powerless, he smiled in an affable manner,

All night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular and rock-strewn paths. More than once they lost their way, but Hope's intimate knowledge of the mountains

On the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon Prophet, John Ferrier went in to Salt Lake City, and having found his acquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada Mountains,

Three weeks had passed since Jefferson Hope and his comrades had departed from Salt Lake City. John Ferrier's heart was sore within him when he thought of the young man's return,

This is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven.

In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilization.

The intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected, that we were all three fairly dumfoundered.