Show WARS OF THE AND R the colony of Lehi landed in chile of south america the west coast christ there labout years before recorded of the locality of no na name m vie first settlement but it is thus de asbed d by the great leader nephi ii hori There were beasts in 10 the forests forest of arery VY kind both the cow and the ox and aso and the horse and the goat and tt wild goa tand all manner of wild ani jhc which were for the use of men aid we did find all manner of ore both rold and of silver and of copper 1 I ht 18 1825 25 he colonists lived together for lesout thirty YO years ro when serious jk broke out mong among them and the divided into two factions hathus Hd thus became the nucleus of two lial nations it has hai been observed the jb hottest hate is that exhibited wema blood relations quarrel and fight file founders of these nations were brothers and while at first the la canites were the aggressors and acted the part of cain towards their kindred in due time both nations were arrayed against each other by mutual hatred and their perpetual pepe feuds and sanguinary conflicts which have left the land they have inhabited strewn with monuments of military skill and relies relics of devastating war laman and lemuel the oldest sons of lehl lehi were wayward and violent in temper in their early life but under the weary and trying experiences of their nomadic life in the wilderness and the still more tedious and affa affi afflictive active sea voyage they became gloomy and ill III natured and their moroseness mOrOs eneRs frequently broke out in fierce rebellion against legitimate restraint the others members of the family were wild mild and temperate and manifested a religious disposition they rendered ready and cheerful obedience to the wise sway of their gre great at leader nephi but notwithstanding quarrels and in subordination the colony kept together during the life time of lehi but shortly after the death of that illustrious patriarch domestic tumults broke out afresh and resulted in the complete rupture of the boung young colony the immediate cause of the trouble was jealousy their worst passions were aroused against their younger brother because of his popularity and 1 the influence ne 0 h was capable of wielding in the community they wanted to rule but lacked the power to command the respect and obedience of the people they finally became so embittered against nephi that they determined ter mined to murder him seeing the impossibility of living in peace with the malcontents and also being warned of his danger by the lord nephi took those chose who adhered to him and departed from the country to teak reek a new home in this separation of the colony into two sections the foundation was laid for that dual state of social life that mixture of barbarism and refine ment everywhere observable among the be lab aborigines origines of the american con 4 the elements of the bation are given by their founder as follows wherefore it came to pass pase that 1 I nephi did take my family and also zoram and his family and sam my elder brother and his family and jacob and joseph my younger brethren and also my ai sisters and all ail those who would go with ml me and all those who would go with me were those who believed in the warnings and revelations of god wherefore they did hearken unto my words and we did take our tents and whatsoever things were possible for us ui mud and dad journey in the wilderness for the of many days 11 11 II nephi v 6 7 A further distinction was also made by jacob now the people who were not Lama were Nep hites nevertheless they were called Nep hites jacobites josephites Zora Lama lem beliles and Ishma elites but 1 I jacob shall not hereafter distinguish them by ba thew these names but I 1 shall call them Lama that seek to destroy the people of nephi and those who are friendly to neobi I 1 shall call Nep hites or the people of nephi according to the reigns of the kings book of jacob 1 1314 the Nep hites were fortunate or judicious in their choice of a new locality after they had bad journeyed for the space of many days they pitched their tents they left the Lama in possession of their deserted homes and journeyed northward taking with them their flocks of sheep and other animals and such household goods as their convenience veni ence would permit they addressed themselves without delay to the developing of the resources of the country around them which was then as now very rich in vegetable p po 0 ducts duct sand and m minerals I 1 gerals nephi says and I 1 did teach my people to build buildings and to work to in an all manner of wood and of iron and of copper and 0 I 1 brass and of steel and of gold and of silver and of precious ores which were in great abundance 11 11 II nephi 5 15 among other industries the manufacture of weapons of war received attention and I 1 nephi did take the sword of laban and after the manner of it did make many swords 12 nephi had had bad a long experience in the art of working tu in metals when the task of building a ship to crow the ocean was imposed upon him he be made his colb from the crude ore taken from theearta the earth he constructed a forge using the skins of animals wherewith to 91 make a bellows to blow the fire he was acquainted with the process of converting iron into steel steely Y and perhaps possessed the after wards lost and again discovered secrets of that art it is well known that the ancient city of damascus was made famous throughout the world by its steel manufactories manu factories and especially by a particular L sword called the damascus blade among the equipments which the colony took with them when they left jerusalem was a weapon called a bow made of fine steel tee it was used by nephi for killing large game in the ris his brethren also had bows they were evidently made of metal as we are told that neobi broke his bow and their bows had lost their springs M and they found great difficulty in pro curing fond As the sword can be used as a weapon only in hand to hand encounters other weapons were made to be used against enemies at a distance upon the open field behind forts eto etc these consisted of such primitive arms as were in use among other nations of that early period finlater in later times we read that armed themselves with swords and with scimitars and with bows and with arrows and with stones and with slings and with all manner of weapons of ef war of every kind alma 2 12 we find also that for personal defense they used breast plates arm shields and head p plates latex other weapons are mentioned without a name or description being given of their character or use they were probably engines for projecting stones and other ballis ballister ball istee tse such as were employed by titus in the siege of jerusalem it to is not likely that the rude and clumsy weapons made of stone hone bone obsidian etc the relies relics of which have T been found in great abundance were the kind of arms used by the Nep bites they had iron steel brass and copper in abundance within easy reach all the time and possessed the requisite skill and industry to work these materials into convenient shape for effective warfare on the contrary the laman ites had bad very little inclination to cultivate the arts and sciences or undertake any enterprises they were degraded idle and ferocious and yet cunning enough to turn to their advantage the resources and means at hand they killed the animals of the forests for food clothed themselves in the skins and lived in huts buts and eaves caves of the rooks rocks by constant exposure to the elements their skins became tanned and dusky and their once fair and comely appearance was changed to visages of frightful aspect and forms repulsive and savage these people were probably the masters of stone hatchets spear heads arrow points etc the smelting smelling sm elting of metals the artistic labor required to fashion the iron steel copper and brass into the shapely bow sword breastplate breast plate and polished helmet were more than they with their dispositions could attempt they contented themselves with such native materials as the earth I 1 and the animals they slew furnished them and these natural products would resist the ravages of time and be while objects of m more re dell deli cate texture and of far more intrinsic value would perish but the remains of metal weapons finely wrought have been found in great variety and abundance we read of the discovery of boelts celts a kind af chisel or adze scrapers scissors knives lance and arrow points of different forms all made by hammering pieces of native copper at swanton a copper hatchet was found originally orgin ally provided with a wooden handle of which fragments at the discovery still rem remained alred short gives an account of copper axes carefully wrapped in very well pree preserved arved cloth being discovered and in january 1876 excavations in a mine in illinois brought to light several turtles in beaten copper of remarkable work manship mansilp mansh lp JOHN H KELSON to be continued |