. . . April 1864. Left Aaborg on the 5 on Steamer "Dania," 200 persons. On the 6 to Copenhagen to Kalkbalien Selle Kanike Street. No went to Mlamo Sweden on the 9 on account of the police had my name there as well as a number of others to fine us to have us go to be soldier. I went around in Copenhagen and got acquainted. Visit President Hogstead and others. Come to Malmo the same day and left there on the 10 of April 64 with the Sweden emigrants to Hamburg on Ship "Zebra" and come to Grimsby on the 14 April 1864. A pleasant trip on the North Sea. We stayed there till the 21 April 1864 then come to Liverpool on Railroad (Grimsby are a very nice town and fine people). We come over 26 Shefield & Manchester and thru 7 tunnel to Liverpool same day, and on a big sailing vessel Monarch of the Sea, Patriarch [p.22] John Smith was our president on ship where we got over bets no and provision which was each morning 3 potter water to 1 person, on each Thursday—marine bread meth [UNCLEAR], pork, flour, Dutch meal, potato, mustard, vinegar. We sat in the harbor to 28 of April 1864. There was 973 emigrants on board and had plenty rum. We was pulled out of the harbor by a steamer into the open sea. There was 2 man that jumped overboard, and was drown. Rummer said they was robbers. There was search for outlaws on the ship. There was 44 children & 1 grown person that died. One day dead 5 children, on the sea 14 couple was married, there was fire on the ship three times, and one night we was drove 300 miles back in a terrible wind ellers we had a pleasant trip (I got fat). Come to New York June 3 1864, come on a steamboat "St. Joseph" (we went to Castle Garden where our name was taken) and that took us to Albany New York the 4 of June to Buffalo, changed cars and then was taken over a river imellen [UNCLEAR] Lake Ontario and Erie. Come to Detroit the 6. Was fire in a baggage car and burned lot of our baggage. Not much 7, come to Chicago, laid there in a puchus [UNCLEAR] till the 8 then to Quincy. Got over the Mississippi River to an grove of trees and laid there to the 11 of June 64. (All the cars was in the South with the soldiers) Then to Palmyra, we saw 1000 of soldier. They tore the track. Then to St. Joseph on the 12 low. There till the 14 of June 64 (there come Joseph Sharp and Patriarch John Smith and I. And 21 more of Danish emigrants was hired to drive oxen for 25 dollar a month. . . . [p.23]

. . .Over 200 oxen died and on South Pass. Laid we for 3 days without food, then come 50 yoke from Salt Lake and flour so we could move wagon to Salt Lake City the 6 of October 1864. . . . [p.25]

BIB: Oveson, Ove Christian. Journal (Ms 6221), pp. 22-23, 25. (A)