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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 317 liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiii inn in 1111 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu ii their fingers ; and all of this time they were howling and crying, for they could not make fire burn. They had to eat all their meat raw. The third day His son came to Hfe and the darkness disappeared, and there was great rejoicing. The Lord had a brother, but-they were not on friendly terms with each other. And he, the brother, had a son who died, and his father went to the Lord ( his brother) to ask him why it was not dark. The Lord told him it was because he opposed him in all things. The Lord's brother's name was Shinnob. The Lord told him to go home, cut off his hair, burn up his lodge, kill his horses, howl, and lacerate his flesh, for the third day his son w^ ould stink; and it was so. Hence comes the tradition, which is ; That when they die their spirits go to a large canon in the Sierra Nevada mountains where there is plenty of game, and they hate to have their relatives die and go poor to the hunting grounds. This is the reason why they kill the dead man's horses to go with him for him to ride. It is customary with them to kill a prisoner or some poor person to go with them to wait on them. WAH- KER'S HISTORY. Wah- ker was born about the year 1815, on the Spanish Fork River, Utah County, Utah Territory, and was one of the shrewdest of men. He was a natural man ; read from natures books. He was very fond of liquor; but when in liquor you could not get him to make a trade. Wah- ker means " yellow," or " brass." When about twenty five years of age he had a curious vi-sion. He died and his spirit went to heaven. He |