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-promoting series, by James A. Little. Designed for the instruction and encouragement of young Latter-Day Saints

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 108

106 THE INDIAN CHIEF'S PROPHECY. Arriving at Kanab, we found all well. Everybody appeared to feel thankful for the success of our mission and the prospects of peace. The Kanab Indians also congratu-lated us on our success. Some of the Piutes from the east side of the river accom-panied us home. They spent much of the night in talking over events that had taken place during the previous three years. They said they had not visited each other much during that time. Choog, the Kibab chief of the [ Piutes, after learning all the particulars from the Indians who went with us, came to me and said, " Now the Indians east of the river have all made peace, the evil spirits will have no place to stop over there. They have followed you here. The destroyer will enter into the wind, fire and water, and do you all the mischief he can. Wherever he can get a chance to work he will go. ' ' At the close of his remarks I smiled. Noticing it, he said with considerable warmth, " You are a wise, good man, and know more than I do ; but I know that what I have told you will come to pass. ' ' The third night after this conversation with the Kibab chief, the night of the 14th of December, a house in Kanab, in which resided the family of Brother Levi Stewart, took fire, from some unknown cause. The room in which the fire originated had but one entrance, and in it were stored some combustible materials. The houses were of logs, built in fort form, and the people and their effects were much crowded together. At the time the fire broke out, people were generally asleep, and six of the family of Brother Stewart were asleep in the room where the fire originated. Before they could be rescued, a can of oil took fire, and the room was in a moment enveloped in an intense flame, which burst out from the only entrance. The shrieks of those in the fire, and the odor of their roasting bodies ; the lurid glare of the fire in the darkness of night ; the intense anxiety and sorrow depicted on the countenances of the father and husband, brothers, sisters and neighbors, made up a scene that can never be forgotten by those who witnessed it.