that were essential to the establishment of the purpose the Lord had in view for them. CHAPTER XI. How Did They Travel?--Had They Vehicles?--Children of Israel used Covered Wagons--Did Lehi and Company use Camels?--Experience of Battalion in California--Custom in Abyssinia--Laman and Companions Never Forget Habits Acquired in the Desert--Transmitted Them to Posterity in Their New Home--Nephi Cherished True Knowledge of Civilization--Contrast Between the Two Brothers--Each Left his Impress upon his Nation. There is nothing said in the record which has come to us respecting the method of traveling adopted by Lehi and his company in the wilderness--whether they had beasts of burden or conveyances of any kind, or not. That they did not go afoot and carry upon their own backs that which they had with them, is so plain, we think, that no one who reflects upon the subject will entertain such an idea. In the first place we learn that Lehi took no gold, silver, or other valuables with him when he left Jerusalem, but he did take provisions and tents. When his sons returned to Jerusalem to obtain the plates they took with them their tents. In that climate a tent at least was necessary for a covering. They certainly had some means of carrying these provisions and tents. While they were in the valley of Lemuel they gathered together seeds of grain and fruit of every kind. When they left there they took these with them, and they carried them with them during all their wanderings; they also took with them "all the remainder of our [their] provisions which the Lord had given unto" them, and their tents. Besides these, they took "whatsoever things we [they] should carry into the wilderness." These would comprise their clothing, their weapons of the chase, and other necessary articles. We think it is safe also to suppose that, while they killed game by the way as they traveled, they also accumulated a stock for future use when they stopped, as they often did, to rest and to hunt. We scarcely think they used vehicles for the purpose of transporting all these articles. The character of the country would be unsuitable for their use; though their forefathers, when they traveled in the wilderness between the Red Sea and Canaan had wagons with them and they used oxen to draw them.