Powsheek spoke of Joseph Smith, the p{P}rophet, who had been murdered and with whom he had been acquainted; said the Prophet was a great and good man.

As the <brethren of the> Presidency passed out of the ten<t,> Baqui{e}jappa, a Pottawatomie chief, call us {them} aside, and presented a paper {(}counselling the Indians not to sell their land{)} given them by John Dunham and two sheets of H{h}ieroglyphics, from the book of Abraham. {[Pres. Young {and party} They started at ten minutes after eight, rode till twenty=two minutes after ten, whom{en} they stopped at the west branch of the Nodaway, with Ezra Chase; <they> resumed our {their} journey at half past eleven and arrived at Pottawatomie Indian village forty five minutes after one p.m.

A Pottawatomie C{c}aptain presented two sheets of the Book of Abraham . . .