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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 66 |
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Show 64 SUFFER FROM THIRST. very improbable to us at that time, but all has since been fulfilled. CHAPTER X. SECOND TRIP TO THE MOQUIS TWO ELDERS LEFT TO LABOR WITH THEM LACK OF SUCCESS, OWING TO TRADITIONS OF THE INDIANS THIRD MISSION TO THE EAST SIDE OF THE COLORADO GEORGE A. SMITH, JR., KILLED BY THE NAVAJOES VERY TRYING EXPERIENCE THE WOUNDED MAN DIES IN THE SADDLE, WHILE TRAVELING FORCED TO LEAVE HIS BODY UNBURIED BITTER REFLECTIONS. EARLY in the autumn of 1859, I again visited Salt Lake City, when President Brigham Young called upon me to make another visit to the Moquis, and take with me Brother Marion J. Shelton, whom he had called to labor with that people, to learn their language and teach them. He directed me to leave with him one of the brethren who had been with me for some time among the Indians. Presi-dent Young also put in my charge sixty dollars worth of goods, consisting of wool- cards, spades, shovels and other articles which would be of value to the Indians, with instruc-tions to dispense them in the best manner to create a good influence among them. I returned home, and immediately made arrangements to carry out these instructions. Our company consisted of Marion J. Shelton, Thales Has-kell, Taylor Crosby, Benjamin Knell, Ira Hatch, John W. Young and myself. We left the Santa Clara settlement on the 20th of October. Nothing of special interest occurred on our journey, except that at one time we did not find water where we expected, and were suffering with thirst, when some Piiites saw our |