Many Saints called to settle Southern Utah—Destructive flood on the Santa Clara—Narrow escape from drowning—Another visit across the Colorado—A new route—Moquis Indians pray for rain—Their prayers answered—Three Indians return with us—Their devotion and reverence—They visit Salt Lake City.
The Moquis visitors taken home—Singular presentiment of my Indian boy—The route south of St. George taken the second time—Cataract Canyon—The lost Moquis and the "medicine man"—Meeting with the brethren who had been left at the Moquis towns—Explorations about the San Francisco Mountains—Return home—Great suffering with thirst—My Indian boy dead and buried, as he had predicted he would be.
Change in the spirit of the Indians—Some insight into their privations and trials—They threaten hostilities—Difficulties with them settled—A kind, peaceful policy the best—Visit to the Moquis towns—The people are invited to live with the Saints—Their objections to removing—Hostile attitude of the Navajoes—Return home—Suffering with thirst—A providential supply of water—Dr. Whitmore killed—Severe sickness—Healed in answer to prayer.
Travels among the Indians—Watching the frontiers—Trip to the Moquis towns—Great raid of the Navajoes—A good opportunity lost of recovering stolen stock—Skirmishes with Raiders—A peaceable agreement with the Navajoes desirable—Visit of President Young to Kanab.
Visits among Utah Indians—Meet Major Powell—Employed to accompany him—Council with the Shi-vwits—Major Powell's description of it.