CHAPTER XLII.--Miscellaneous Writings:--Mission to the East:-- Impressions of the Spirit:--Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith:--Spirit of Exultation:--Return to Nauvoo:--Sidney Rigdon Disfellowshipped. CHAPTER XLIII.--Eastern Mission:--Return:--Mobocracy:--Labor in the Temple:--Expulsion from Nauvoo:--Cross the Mississippi:--Garden Grove:--Mount Pisga:--Council Bluffs:--Mormon Battalion:--Winter Quarters:--Mission to England with Elders Orson Hyde and John Taylor:--Conference at Manchester:--Tour through the Kingdom. CHAPTER XLIV.--An Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints, _was in the Island of Great Britain for the Gospel's sake; and being in the Spirit on the 24th of November, 1846, addressed the following words of comfort to his dearly beloved Wife and Family, dwelling in tents, in the Camp of Israel, at Council Bluffs, Missouri Territory, North America; where they and twenty thousand others were banished by the civilized Christians of the United States for the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus_. CHAPTER XLV.--Return with Elder John Taylor to America:--Arrival at Winter Quarters:--Camp Starts for the Rocky Mountains:--Meet the Pioneers:--Arrival in Great Salt Lake Valley:--Visit to Utah and Great Salt Lake. CHAPTER XLVI.--Spring of 1848:--Scarcity of Provisions:--"Harvest Feast:"--Arrival of President Young and Company:--Gold Fever:--Explore Southern Utah. CHAPTER XLVII.--Start on my Pacific Mission:--Sketch of the Journey:--Attacked by Indians:--Crossing the Desert:--Arrival at Los Angelos. CHAPTER XLVIII.--Los Angelos:--Catholic Celebration of Corpus Christi:--Arrival in San Francisco:--Letter to President Brigham Young:--Family Letter. CHAPTER XLIX.--Valparaiso:--Quillota:--Letter to President Brigham Young. CHAPTER L.--Arrival in San Francisco:--Return to Salt Lake City:--Second Mission to the Pacific:--Articles from the Press. CHAPTER LI.--Reply to the Rev. Mr. Briggs on the Subject of the Expediency of the Reappointment of His Excellency Governor Young, of Utah. CHAPTER LII.--Statements Pertaining to the History of Joseph Smith:--Return to Utah:--Home Mission:--Attend the Legislature at Fillmore:--The Standard of Zion:--Return to Salt Lake City. CHAPTER LIII.--Journal of Eastern Mission. CHAPTER LIV.--Family Letters:--"My Fiftieth Year:"--Response by John Taylor. APPENDIX GENEALOGY TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE CHAPTER I. ------------------------ Parentage:--Childhood:--Youth:--Education:--Early Impressions:--Journey Westward:--Making a New Farm in the Wilderness of Oswego. Parley Parker Pratt, the subject and author of these sketches, and third son of Jared and Charity Pratt, of Canaan, Columbia County, New York, was born April 12, 1807, in Burlington, Otsego County, N.Y.* [Footnote] *For genealogy in full see Appendix.