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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 89 |
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Show CHANGE IN THE SPIRIT OF THE INDIANS. 87 world of spirits. He referred to this when he said that he should die before my return home, and be on his mission. He was a faithful Latter- day Saint ; believed he had a great work to do among his people ; had many dreams and visions, and had received his blessings in the house of the Lord. CHAPTER XIV. CHANGE IN THE SPIRIT OF THE INDIANS SOME INSIGHT INTO THEIR PRIVATIONS AND TRIALS THEY THREATEN HOSTILITIES DIFFICULTIES WITH THEM SETTLED A KIND, PEACEFUL POLICY THE BEST VISIT TO THE MOQUIS TOWNS THE PEOPLE ARE INVITED TO LIVE WITH THE SAINTS THEIR OBJECTIONS TO REMOVING HOSTILE ATTITUDE OF THE NAVAJOES RETURN HOME-SUFFERING WITH THIRST A PROVIDENTIAL SUPPLY OF WATER DR. WHITMORE KILLED BY INDIANS SEVERE SICKNESS HEALED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER. AT this time a considerable change had taken place in the spirit and feelings of the Indians of Southern Utah, since the settlement of the country in 1861- 62. Up to that time, our visits among them and our long talks around their camp fires, had kept up a friendly feeling in their hearts. After the settlement of St. George, the labors of the Indian missionaries, from force of circumstances, became more extended and varied, and the feelings of the Indians towards the Saints became more indifferent, and their pro-pensity to raid and steal returned. The great numbers of animals brought into the country by the settlers, soon devoured most of the vegetation that had produced nutritious seeds, on which the Indians had been r. ccustomed to subsist. When, at the proper season of the year, the natives resorted to these places to gather seeds, they |