When they returned they reported they had found a way around the head of the canon and they believed it to be the right way.

The map Williams had given them did not show this canon and they believed it to be correct, and that the real road led around at the place which they had found, and no further trouble would be met.
Acting on this report about twenty wagons, including the Jayhawkers, concluded to go ahead.

"We can beat the other fellows a month," said they, and so they hitched up and pulled out in a northerly direction, feeling in good spirits and hopeful of success.
They named this place Mt.Misery.While camped here a lone and seemingly friendless man died and was buried.

None seem now to remember his name, but think he was from Kentucky.

He was low with consumption and not strong enough to endure the hardships of the journey.
About the third night the Jayhawkers were overtaken by seven more wagons owned by A.Bennett and friends, J.B.Arcane and family, two men named Earhart and a son of one of them, and one or two other wagons.
The Jayhawker's train was made up of men from many states, but seemed well united and was as complete as when they first started.