George Donner would read to me from the
book[27] she wrote in every day. If that book had been saved, every one
would know the truth of what went on in camp, and not spread these
false tales.
"I dug in the snow for the dead cattle, but found none, and we had to
go back to our saltless old bullock hide, days before the Second Relief
got to us, on the first of March."
[Footnote 19: Died while in the mountain camps.]
[Footnote 20: Died _en route_ over the mountains to the settlements in
California.]
[Footnote 21: Report brought by John Baptiste to Donner's Camp, after
one of his trips to the lake.]
[Footnote 22: Incident related by William C. Graves, after he reached
the settlement.]
[Footnote 23: Franklin W. Graves and Jay Fosdick perished in December,
1846, while _en route_ to the settlement with the Forlorn Hope.]
[Footnote 24: One of the stumps near the Breen-Graves cabin, cut for
fuel while the snow was deepest, was found by actual measurement to be
twenty-two feet in height. It is still standing.]
[Footnote 25: Thornton's dates are one day later than those in the
Breen Diary. Breen must have lost a day _en route_.]
[Footnote 26: The First Relief Corps took six, instead of seven,
refugees from Donner Camp, and set out from the lake cabins with
twenty-three, instead of twenty-four, refugees.]
[Footnote 27: The journal, herbarium, manuscript, and drawings of Mrs.
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