| 104 for the Sandwich Islands, and urged me to visit them before I returned to America.
"Mr. Lincoln, 3 I understand, is baptized at Tahiti; he was one of our passengers, and a fine man too. . .
"ADDISON PRATT.
"To Mrs. Louisa Pratt, Nauvoo."
-Times and Seasons, vol. 6, pp. 882-885.
Several other communications were received from these elders, which we omit, and close the subject by quoting a report from Elder Rogers, written after he returned to Nauvoo:-
"NAUVOO, January 5,1846.
"Bro. Taylor:-Having been requested by many brethren to give some account of my late mission in the Pacific, and being willing to gratify them and others, I send you an abridgment of my journal during my mission, which if you deem worthy of publication, is at your disposal.
"Truly yours,
"NOAH ROGERS.
"Being set apart with Brn. Addison Pratt, B. F Grouard, and K. Hanks, to go to the islands of the south sea, we accordingly took leave of our families, and on the first day of June, 1843, left Nauvoo for Pittsburg [Pittsburgh], where we arrived on the 12th. Bro. Pratt left us at Evansville for Pleasant Garden, Indiana. Bro. Grouard left the same day for Philadelphia. Bro. Hanks and myself tarried in Pittsburg [Pittsburgh] the 14th, when we left for Philadelphia, where we arrived on the 23d in the evening. Here we found Bro. Grouard. We stayed in the city until the 29th, when it was agreed that Brn. Grouard and Hanks should go on, and that I should await the arrival of Bro. Pratt; during which time I visited a branch at Downingtown, also Goshen, where I attended a conference with Brn. Sheets and Moore, who organized a branch. From hence I visited Centerville, Delaware, on the 4th of July, where I tarried until the 6th with Sr. Moseley. I then visited Wilmington, stayed one day, then returned to Philadelphia; and on Sunday 9th, by
3 Father of Elder George S. Lincoln, of San Francisco, California.
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