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Rh Thursday, 2.Bro. Leslie and family arrived to spend a few days with us.

Saturday, 4.Frost this morning to injure our vines in the garden.

Sunday, 5.Our quarterly meeting. 19 communicants.

Monday, 6.Bro. Leslie and family leave. Another error against the mission farm of $73.58. It really appears as though there has been great carelessness in keeping the account.

Wednesday, 8.The emigrants are coming into the country; so far but few have passed this place. We hear two were drowned at the cascades. It is said one was a Baptist minister. No letters yet. Learned afterwards, one only, Mr. Moore.

Friday, 10.Nine a. m. More than one hundred head of horn cattle have just passed our door, attended by a number of emigrants. The weather is beutiful. They are coming in in fine spirits. Report they have had excellent weather, left Independence the 2nd day of May, and are coming into Oregon as a land of promise with great hopes.

Saturday, October 11.We are having most beautiful weather. Emigrants keep arriving in small companies; from the statements of all so far the emigration will perhaps number more than two thousand, and more than five hundred wagons.

Sunday, 12.Our place is rather confused or unsettled by the arrival of new emigrants; almost everybody wishes to see them and propose their questions, many inquire for friends on the arrival of emigrants. Under this excitement and curiousity, our congregation is smaller than usual; only about twenty hearers.

Monday, 13.Today I received a letter from Dr. McLaughlin stating he could not take wheat on Dr. Babcock's account and credit the Methodist mission.

Tuesday, 14.Quite a stir concerning a parcel of emigrants coming from the Dalls by the way of Mount Hood