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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 88 |
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Show 86 OUR ARRIVAL HOME. Indians were around us and we had better look after our animals. I followed a trail a few hundred yards by moonlight, and discovered the tracks of two Indians. Suffice it to say, we lost ten animals out of eighteen. Assisted by some Piutes, we made an effort the next day to recover them, bufc failing, on the 6th of May we continued our journey. Five of our animals we packed, which left but three to ride. As there were ten men in the company, we traveled mostly on foot. We afterwards learned that the Cataract Canyon Indians had not returned the Walapies' horses as they had agreed to, and the Walapies made that an excuse for stealing ours. When we arrived at the river our feet were badly blistered. We had learned to appreciate the value of the animals we had lost. Between the ferry and St. George, one day, in the Grand Wash, our animals becoming dry, a mule smelt of the ground and pawed. We concluded that it smelt water under the ground. We dug down about three feet, and found plenty. There has been water there ever since, and it is called White Spring. We arrived in St. George on the 13th of May, 1863. We had been absent fifty- six days. We had explored a practic-able, though difficult route, for a wagon from St. George to the Little Colorado, had visited the Moquis towns, and explored some of the country around the San Francisco Mountain. I found on my return home that my Indian boy, Albert, was dead and buried, as he had predicted he would be when I left home. I supposed his age to be about ten years when he came to live with me ; he had been with me twelve years, making him twenty- two years old when he died. For a number of years he had charge of my sheep, horses and cattle, and they had increased and prospered in his hands. Some time before his death he had a vision, in which he saw himself preaching the gospel to a multitude of his people. He believed that this vision would be realized in the |