[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] 7th Wind S.W. head wind. It is still vary foggy. We are in Lattitude 42 Long 55 making 3 hours 28 min from Liverpool making 945 miles still to sail to New York. 810 geographical miles.
A vary hard storm arose in the evening from the S.W. The Sails were taken in. The Heavens gatherd blackness, the sea rolled into mountains, & the Captain looked wild. In the midst of this their was a fight between the cook & the Irish, which was stoped by the first mate who interfered. We had the roughest night at sea which we have seen since we have been on the voyage. The spars & other things were afloat on the main deck.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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