Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 114

Captain John, Juan, or Jack. I transfer this mention of him from my note-book here, solely because I have a long story to tell of him, further on. He became possessed with the notion that he was divinely inspired, and did some frightfully queer things. I have seen something of insane persons, and a good deal more of religious enthusiasts ; but a red Indian crazy upon religion, is the hardest character to understand I can conceive of. The belief of some of these characters in their most ridiculous fancies is absolute. One of them, for instance, who was recently an esteemed friend of this very John, ordered his followers to kill him, to prove how instantly he would receive a new body. He laid his head d own: they chopped it off; and I visited his grave. KANNARRA Our next stage from Cedar City was to Kannarra. "Wrap up the children well," Mrs. Jane said, as we were about starting; " you will need all the warm clothing you have. We shall reach the rim of the basin this evening." We thanked her afterwards for the timely warning. Our way lay along a level plain, forming an avenue between mountains that gradually drew closer together toward the south, where opened the one wide pass of Kannarra. Before sunset we caught sight of a great mountain ablaze with color, which we called Mt. Sinai. It stood apart on our left, half withdrawn between two gray masses which we christened the Twin Friars: a natural rock portal revealing the entrance to a gloomy canon at their feet. Hard by, in the foreground, ap- peared some crumbling adobe walls, fast resolving themselves I14