Travel Many Days in the Wilderness--Call the Land Nephi--Did They Journey Northward?--Location of Land Nephi--River Sidon and Magdalena--Land of Zarahemla--Twenty-two Days' Travel from Nephi--Did not Land of Nephi Extend Considerably South?--Zeniff's Return to the Land of Nephi--Was that the Land Settled by Nephi, the First?--Mosiah, King of Zarahemla--Reasons for Thinking Nephi to be Distinguishing Name of an Extensive Region--Nephites Would Spread Over the Country in Four Hundred Years--Did Nephi and Company Travel as far North as Ecuador?--Followed by Lamanites--Jacob and Enos Respecting Lamanites--Nephi's Description of the Land--Bolivia and Peru--Cities and Settlements Called After Founders--Additional Reasons for Thinking Nephi and Company did not Settle so far North--Boundaries of Lands Occupied by Nephites and Lamanites--South America Called Lehi, North America Called Mulek. After they separated from Laman and Lemuel, Nephi and his company traveled for many days in the wilderness and reached a land where they determined to settle. They selected for it the name of their leader, and it was called Nephi. Nephi does not state in what direction he and his company traveled after separating from his brethren; but it is plain, from the allusions which are subsequently made to this land of Nephi by other writers, that they took their journey northward. It appears plain also that they traveled some distance in that direction. As Nephi was always careful to seek the guidance of the Lord in his movements, he was undoubtedly led by Him to the land where they settled. It is stated by Elder Orson Pratt, in a footnote to the new edition of the Book of Mormon, that the land of Nephi is supposed to have been in or near the country now called Ecuador. This supposition is based upon the general understanding that the river called the Sidon in the Book of Mormon is that now known as the Magdalena in our geographies. If this is correct, we can locate the land of Zarahemla with tolerable accuracy from the references which are made to it in the Book of Mormon; and as journeys were made between those two lands--Nephi and Zarahemla--and in one instance the time occupied in the journey is given--about twenty-two days—-(_Mosiah xxiii. 3, xxiv, 20-25_,) some idea can be obtained of the distance between these two places.