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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 105 |
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Show RECOVER SOME STOLEN SHEEP. 103 father died, he took you in his arms, and told you that you would live to see white men come from the west good men, men of peace ; and that it would be but a short time after they came until you could sleep in peace, eat in peace, and have peace in all things. You told me that you believed we were the men your father meant, and I hope you will not pre-vent peace coming into your country for the sake of a few sheep." " Well," said he, " I will not; I will give up the sheep." They were counted out, and the Navajoe offered us one or two to eat on our way home. We told him we could get along without taking any of his sheep ; he had but few, and would want them. CHAPTEE XVIII. MOQUIS INDIANS DESTROY MANY NAVAJOES AN ORIBA AND . HIS WIFE ACCOMPANY US HOME PEACE TALK WITH THE PIUTES A DREAM AND ITS FULFILLMENT TUBA'S PRAYER CHOOG, THE INDIAN PROPHET HIS PREDIC-TION FATAL FIRE IN KANAB. " TT / TE were told by the Moquis that when the Navajoes were at war with the United States, they were taken advantage of in their scattered condition by the Moquis, who hunted out the worst of the thieves among them, and killed them off. For this purpose the Moquis were furnished with guns and ammunition. One man told me that he had hunted up and killed eight Navajoes single handed. I was also informed that the Moquis decoyed thirty- five of them into one of their villages, by promising them protection, and then disarmed them, and threw them off a high rock between two of their towns. I went to the place indicated, and found a number of skeletons and some remains of |
