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 138

136 SENT ON ANOTHER MISSION. thought it best to try to swim with one arm. However, I was soon able to use both, and went safely to shore. I ran down the river bank, got into a skiff with two others, pulled out to the head of the rapids, and saved a wagon and its contents on an island. The other two wagons, with all the valuables they contained, including the most of our sup-plies, passed over the rapids into the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. On getting together we found that Brother Lorenzo W. Eoundy was missing. He was said to be a good swimmer, and it is probable he was taken with the cramp and sank at once. His body has never been found. Brother Lorenzo Hatch sank deep into the river, but saved himself from drowning and was picked up by the skiff. Brother Warren Johnson and another man hung to a wagon until they were taken up with the skiff, just in time to save them from going over the rapids. This unfortunate affair occurred on the 28th of May. We gathered up what was left of our outfit, and visited the mis-sions at Mowabby and Moancoppy, and the settlements on the Little Colorado. About the 1st of December, President Young desired me to take a small company, and look out a route for a wagon road from Pierce's Ferry, south of St. G- eorge, to Sunset on the Little Colorado; " for," said he, " our people will want all the choice places where there is water and grass." Brothers Wilford Halliday from Kanab, Joseph Crosby, Calvin Kelsey, Samuel Alger and Hyrum Williams from St. George, accompanied me. We left St. George the 13th of December, 1876. We took a route to the ferry a little east of our former one, in order to strike the new crossing of the Colorado, five miles above the old one. We remained at the river two days, and assisted Brother Harrison Pierce to construct a skiff, with which we conveyed our luggage across ; but we forded our animals. After cross-ing the river, we still took a course east of our former one and the first dny arrived in Wallipie Valley, an unknown country to me.