155 years ago today - Jun 4, 1863

Passenger ship Amazon departs London with 882 Mormon emigrants aboard. British author Charles Dickens observes: "Now I have seen emigrant ships before this day in June. And these people are so strikingly different from all other people in like circumstances whom I have ever seen." He explains: "Nobody is in an ill-temper, nobody is the worse for drink, nobody swears an oath or uses a coarse word, nobody appears depressed, nobody is weeping... they established their own police, made their own regulations, and set their own watches at all hatchways."

[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]

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