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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 133 |
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Show HASTELE SATISFIED. 131 We were camped near the road, where men were passing both ways, on horseback and in wagons. When the two brethren were approaching, and still a considerable distance off, Hastele arose to his feet, saying, " There come the two men we are waiting for. ' ' As they drew near, he remarked, ' ' Yes, they are good men, men of God." As the brethren dismounted, Hastele embraced them in true Navajoe style. I mention this as one of the many circumstances that have come under my notice, which prove to me that many of the Indians, and especially the honest- hearted, are blessed with much of the spirit of revelation and discernment. The following morning when arranging to visit the spot where the Navajoes were killed, Hastele spoke as follows: U I am satisfied ; I have gone far enough ; I know our friends, the ' Mormons,' are our true friends. No other people we ever knew would have taken the trouble they have to show us the truth. I believe they have good hearts. Here is Jacob ; he has been traveling about to do good all winter and spring, and is going yet. When I get home I do not intend my tongue to lay idle until the Navajoes learn the particulars of this affair. ' ' Hastele started for Kanab ; Brothers Thurber and Pratt, a Mr. Boyd, who was sent by the agent at Fort Defiance to accompany the Navajoe delegation, the two Navajoe interpre-ters and I went to Grass Valley, to see the place where the Navajoes were killed. Having satisfied the interpreters, we returned by way of Richfield. |