Animals and Vegetables Valuable to Lehi and Company--The Potato--Abundance of Fruits--Jerusalem Destroyed--Lehi's Thankfulness for this Choice Land--A Land of Liberty to all who Should be Brought Here if they Would Serve God--Land to be Kept from Knowledge of Other Nations--Remarkably Fulfilled--Promises of the Lord to Lehi Concerning his Descendants and the Land--Present Condition of his Seed Predicted--Prophecies Concerning the Prophet Joseph Smith--Lehi a Great Prophet--Restrains his Children While Living--Rancorous Hatred After his Death Against Nephi--Enraged by his Admonitions--Propose to Kill Him. The animals of the country Lehi, and his company doubtless found of very great value to them in their labors and movements. Besides these, it is probable they obtained many valuable vegetable productions which were peculiar to the country. The potato is indigenous to that region; it seems to be its natural home, and was found growing there in abundance by the first Europeans that visited the country. It is not unlikely that Lehi and his people also had it for use. Wild fruits are now very abundant in places contiguous to the spot were we are told they landed. One writer, in describing a contiguous province, says: "The wild Indians bring from the woods many delicious fruits, pine-apples, plantains, bananas, nisperos, mamays, guavas, etc., as well as sweet potatoes, _camotes_, cabbage palm, _palmitos_, and yucas." If Lehi and his company found wild fruits so abundant, they had no difficulty in living in plentiful ease until the seed grains they brought with them matured. Everything contributed to make them feel that it was a choice land above all other lands; for with all the other advantages it possessed, the soil was exceedingly fertile and the climate was delicious in temperature and healthy. Shortly after their arrival, Lehi informed his people that he had learned through a vision from the Lord that Jerusalem had been destroyed, and he said had they remained there, they also would have perished. He drew the attention of his children to the goodness of the Lord in warning them to flee out of Jerusalem and in preserving them until they had reached this choice land, which the Lord had covenanted should be for the inheritance of his seed forever, and also for all those who should be led out of other countries by the hand of the Lord. To those brought out of other countries this should be a land of liberty, so long as they should serve God according to the commandments which He has given; but if iniquity should abound the land should be cursed for their sakes. He told them that this land would be kept from the knowledge of other nations; for the reason that, if they discovered it, they would overrun it and there would be no place for an inheritance.