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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 128 |
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Show 126 " NO BRAVER MAN EVER LIVED." stone, and whose greatest term of reproach to one another is he is a lazy man. uln conclusion, I wish to give my testimony to the bearing of Mr. Hamblin during the trying scene I have endeavored to depict. No braver man ever lived. J. E. S. The writer of the foregoing letter and his brother acted a different part from what I did, and acted it well. He describes some things better than I can. As I have before remarked, ever since I began to have a correct insight into Indian character, I have felt anxious to do all the good in my power, and have endeavored to settle difficulties with them without bloodshed. Much good, I trust, has been done by going into their midst and reasoning with them, when their minds were made up to avenge some wrong. I reason with an Indian as an Indian. For example, Mr. Smith did not understand the motive of the Piute messenger of the Navajoes, who asked, at Mow-abby, if they would give up the lame man to torture if the Navajoes would agree, on that condition, to abstain from fur-ther hostilities. The Piute thought that the lame man was of but little use, and hoped by the sacrifice of him to save the others. From his standpoint, his motive was good. Had Mr. Smith understood the Indian character better, he probably would have had no disposition to kill him. |
