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Jacob Hamblin, a narrative of his personal experience, as a frontiersman, missionary to the Indians and explorer, [microform] disclosing interpositions of Providence, severe privations, perilous situations and remarkable escapes. Fifth book of the faith-p - Page 42 |
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Show 40 DEATH OF AG- ARA- POOTS. I told him that lie let his boy die, because he did not think enough of him to wash him so that the Lord would heal him, and now he was mad at some. one else. I told him we were hungry, and were going to eat with a man who was not mad, and that he had better go with us. As we left his lodge, he arose to go with us, but trembled, staggered and sat down in the sand. All the Indians but Ag- ara- poots gathered around us. We told them they had been foolish in burning up their food, going into the mountains, and leaving their friends ; that the women and children had better go back to the settlement where there was something to eat, and let the men who wished to hunt, remain. The most of them started for the settlement the same night. The following day Titse- gavats, the chief, came to me and said, " The band have all come on to the Clara except Ag- ara-poots, and he came on to the bluff in sight of it, and his heart hardened. You cannot soften his heart again. He has gone off alone. You had better pray for him to die, then there will be no bloodshed. Do not tell Mm what I have said to you. ' ' I did ask the Lord that, if it would be for the glory of His name, Ag- ara- poots might not have strength to shed the blood of any of us. In a few days the Piutes told me that he was not able to walk nor help himself to a drink of water. He lingered until spring and died. |
