The delay was granted, provided they remain in internment camps until travel resumed. The last party, including Chief Ross, went by water. Although suffering from a cold, Quatie Ross, the Chief's wife, gave her only blanket to a child. Long time we travel on way to new land. People feel bad when they leave Old Nation.
Many days pass and people die very much.
Recollections of a survivor She died of pneumonia at Little Rock. Some drank stagnant water and succumbed to disease. One each day. Then all are gone. By March 1839, all survivors had arrived in the west.