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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 67 |
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Show HE- VISIT THE MOQUIS. 65 fire and came to us. They informed us where there was water, and in the morning piloted us to it. We arrived among the Moquis on the 6th of November. We visited and talked with them three days. I was at a loss to know who to leave with Brother Shelton, and was desirous that it might be made manifest to me. My mind rested upon Brother Thales Haskell. I went to him and told him that he was the only one I could think of to remain with Brother Shelton, but he had been out so much that I disliked to mention the subject to him. He replied that he was the man, for it had been made known to him that he would be asked to remain before leav-ing home, but he had said nothing about it. We left our Moquis friends and Brothers Shelton and Has-kell on the 10th of November, and arrived home on the 25th. Brothers Shelton and Haskell remained on their mission ' intil early spring, when they returned home and reported that the Moquis were kind to them, but they could not make much progress in the object of their mission. The fathers of the people told them, very emphatically, that they still believed that the " Mormons" who had visited them were the men prophesied of by their fathers, that would come among them from the west to do them good. But they could make no move until the re- appearance of the three prophets who led their fathers to that land, and told them to remain on those rocks until they should come again and tell them what to do. Under these circumstances the brethren thought best to return home. In the fall of 1860, I was directed to make another effort to establish a mission in some of the Moquis towns, and take with me George A. Smith, Jr., son of the late President George A. Smith. I left the Santa Clara in October with a company of nine men: Thales Haskell, George A. Smith, Jr., Jehiel McCon-nell, Ira Hatch, Isaac Riddle, Amos Thornton, Francis M. Hamblin, James Pierce, and an Indian we called Enos. We took sufficient to sustain us in the Moquis country for one year. |