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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 75 |
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Show ARRIVE HOME. 73 We concluded it was the spot where the Navajoes had taken advantage of the Utes. The second day from Spaneshanks' camp we crossed to the north side of the Colorado River. Four days afterwards on the Buckskin Mountain, the Piutes brought us an abundance of pine nuts. The supply was very acceptable, as edibles were scarce in camp. Five days subsequently we arrived home on the Santa Clara, jaded and worn with hard travel and much anxiety of mind. Our relatives and friends had been much troubled in their minds concerning us in our absence. Some had unfavorable dreams, and they were filled with gloomy forebodings. A young lad, a nephew of mine, told his mother that there was something the matter with me, for he saw me walking along and weeping bitterly. He asked me what was the matter, and I replied, " Do not ask me, for it is too bad to tell." I know that some people do not believe in dreams and night visions. I do not believe in them when occasioned by a dis-ordered stomach, the result of eating unwisely, but in those of a different nature I have often been forewarned of things about to come to pass, and I have also received much instruc-tion. I wrote quite a full account of this trip to President George A. Smith, after which he came to my house on the Santa Clara. In conversing with him about the affair, he remarked, l ' I was much shocked on hearing of the death of my boy ; but upon reflection, we all, in the Historian's Office, came to the conclusion that the Lord wanted the young man just in the way He took him. ' ' President Young also looked upon the matter in the same light. After this conversation. Brother Smith gave me a note from President Brigham Young, in which was a written request to raise a company of twenty men, and bring in what we could find of the remains of Brother George A. Smith, Jr. Winter having set in, I considered this a difficult task. |