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Show 300 WESTEXN WILDS. intend to settle all the good country on the other side, and are now settling into Arizona as fast as they can. Will settle Potato Valley first, then down in the White and San Francisco Mountains," etc. Her own history was both sad and interesting. She was born in Brighton, England, and reared in London. Her folks were well- to- do English, and signs of early education and refinement showed plainly through the rough coating of a frontier and Mormon life. She had embraced Mormonism at the age of twenty, and come at once to Utah ( sixteen years before) in the first hand- cart company. They got through with little suffering. It was the company after that suffered so. She " had gone in second to Major Doyle," by express request of Brigham Young. They had pioneered all the new towns south. Had a fine place in Harmony, and sold it for $ 4,000, when ordered here on a mission. She was living here, a hundred miles from the nearest settlement, in the extreme of hardship, and her folks begging her to come to them. And now, at the end of all these sacrifices, a growing skepticism was evident in her talk. It was plain that she doubted seriously whether all this had not been vain worse than useless. She firmly believed in polygamy, she said, when she came a girl from England, but not now ; there was so much evil in it that it could not be from God. Four days had passed, and still no " old gent." The Indians lost heart, and John came to request a nclsoass my certificate that he had seen me safe across the Colorado. I furnished them all the bread and cheese Mrs. Doyle could spare, and at noon they started to return. I watched them for hours, as they slowly climbed the red cliffs, and with a feeling near akin to sorrow, for the simple aborigines had been more company to me than I could have believed possible. It was my last sight of the Navajoes a most interesting race of barbarians, and the only Indians for whom I could ever feel any personal friendship. In three hours after their departure " Major Doyle " returned, and we crossed my horse without difficulty. The method pursued is for one to row the skiff, while another holds up the horse's head by the bridle, * he animal swimming just behind the boat. |