Jacob Hamblin: A Narrative of His Personal Experience as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians and Explorer, Disclosing Interpositions of Providence, Severe Privations, Perilous Situations and Remarkable Escapes: Fifth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day SaintsHamblin, Jacob
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Jacob Hamblin: A Narrative of His Personal Experience as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians and Explorer, Disclosing Interpositions of Providence, Severe Privations, Perilous Situations and Remarkable Escapes: Fifth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Hamblin, Jacob
Frontier and pioneer life -- Utah; Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886; Indians of North America -- Utah; Latter Day Saint churches -- Utah
I came to my senses about 8 o'clock in the evening, and threw off from
my stomach quite a quantity of blood. I requested the brethren who were
standing around to administer to me, and they did so. From the time I
fell from the tree until then was lost to me, so far as earthly matters
were concerned.
During the time my body lay in this condition, it seemed to me that I
went up from the earth and looked down upon it, and it appeared like a
dark ball. The place where I was seemed very desirable to remain in. It
was divided into compartments by walls, from which appeared to grow out
vines and flowers, displaying an endless variety of colors.
I thought I saw my father there, but separated from me. I wished him to
let me into his compartment, but he replied that it was not time for me
to come to him.
I then asked why I could not come.
He answered, "Your work is not yet done."
I attempted to speak about it again, but he motioned me away with his
hand, and, in a moment I was back to this earth. I saw the brethren
carrying my body along, and it was loathsome to me in appearance.
A day or two after my fall from the tree, I was carried to the Mountain
Meadows, where I was fed on goat's milk and soon recovered.
In the autumn of this year, 1858, I received instructions from
President Brigham Young to take a company of men and visit the Moquis,
or Town Indians, on the east side of the Colorado River.
The object of this visit was to learn something of the character and
condition of this people, and to take advantage of any opening there
might be to preach the gospel to them and do them good.
My companions for this trip were Brothers Dudley and Thomas Leavitt,
two of my brothers, Frederick and William Hamblin, Samuel Knight,
Ira Hatch, Andrew Gibbons, Benjamin Knell, Ammon M. Tenney (Spanish
interpreter), James Davis (Welsh interpreter), and Naraguts, an Indian
guide.
A Spanish interpreter was thought advisable, from the fact that the
Spanish language was spoken and understood by many of the Indians in
that region of country. A Welsh interpreter was taken along, thinking
it possible that there might be some truth in a report which had been
circulated that there were evidences of Welsh descent among these
Indians. An Indian guide was requisite, from the fact the none of the
brethren had traveled the route. This was the first of a series of
journeys to this people.
The company, consisting of twelve men, including myself, left the Santa
Clara settlement on the 28th of October. Our general course of travel
was a little south of east. The third night we camped at Pipe Springs,
a place now occupied by a stone fort, and known as Winsor Castle.
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