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For&unately, only one mule was Med, but it took a full day to recover the baggage. The crossing of the east fork of the Colorado River was attended with much difficulty and more danger. Steadily the expedition's food supply dwindled and couldn't be replenished on a regular basis, because of lack of available game. Once they had a beaver for breakfast, a porcupine for supper, and a coyote for another meal. They collected cactus leaves and ate them by burning offthe spines in the fire. Soon it became necessary to kill their horses for food, at which point Fremont called the men together and exacted a solemn pledge that, regardless of the extremity, they would not resort to cannibalism, as some may have done on a previous expedition. Some of the men began to lag behind as suffering became more acute. Finally, Fremont ordered them to leave all the extra baggage behind so they could ride the horses and mules. During that night in Circle Valley, standing almost to their waist in snow for hours, he and Carvalho made astronomical observations. The veteran explorer concluded that Parowan, the small Mormon settlement only forty rods square, was three days travel away. Reaching it was a feat in itself, and almost at the very hour of triumph near Mule Point, one of their men, Oliver Fuller, died in the saddle. They arrived in Parowan on February 8, 1854, and the Mormons opened their homes to these dirty, half-starved men. Fremont stayed with Stake President J. C. L. Smith's family and Carvalho stayed with the English shoemaker, William Heap and his f d y . The secretary of the tenitory, Almon W. Babbitt, had stopped in this walled village of a hundred families en route to Washington, by way of California, and Fremont was able, not only to borrow money from him, but to send letters home with his company. Fremont continued his journey the last of F e b l u q and anived in San Francisco in mid April.' Carvalho, too weak to continue, remained in Iron County and wrote the following about the expedition:
I was ill; I was so much enervated by diarrhea that my physician advised me not to accompany the expedition, as the exertion of riding on horseback
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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