The story of the Book of Mormon . bookentitled Giro del Mondo. Clavigero, Humboldt and others have endeav-ored to explain the meaning of this drawing. You will notice a palm treenear a hieroglyphic which much resembles that supposed to represent Jeru-salem in the commencement of the Boturini manuscript. This is said tosignify the house of God; here the journey began. Near by is a bird,which stands for Asia. The tradition runs thus : Huitziton was a person ofgreat authority amongst the Aztecs, in Asia, who for some reason, not remem-bered, persuaded his countrymen to change their country. While
The story of the Book of Mormon . bookentitled Giro del Mondo. Clavigero, Humboldt and others have endeav-ored to explain the meaning of this drawing. You will notice a palm treenear a hieroglyphic which much resembles that supposed to represent Jeru-salem in the commencement of the Boturini manuscript. This is said tosignify the house of God; here the journey began. Near by is a bird,which stands for Asia. The tradition runs thus : Huitziton was a person ofgreat authority amongst the Aztecs, in Asia, who for some reason, not remem-bered, persuaded his countrymen to change their country. While he wasthus meditating, a bird was heard singing in a bush, ti hui, ti hui, whichmeans let us go. Do you hear that? said Zacpaltzin. it is the warn-ing voice of the secret Deity to leave this continent and to find they started, with those they could persuade to go with them,traveling by Tlapalan, translated, the country of the Red Sea, and after ; reached the land where the hieroglyphic leaves CHAPTER R. THE PROMISED LAND —CHIIJ —ITS NATURAL PRODUCTIONS— THE DEATH OF LEHI —HIS BLESSING ON HIS POS-TERITY—PROPHECIES OF HIS ANCESTOR JOSEPH. ^TTHEN the little colony landed on the promisedland they pitched their tents and began to tillthe ground. Thej^ numbered, we imagine, from sixtyto eighty souls, possibly more. From their sowingthey reaped abundant crops. They explored the wil-derness around them, and found beasts of the forest ofnian}^ kinds; also the ox, the horse, the goat and thewild goat. In the rocks thej^ discovered ore of gold, ofsilver and of copper. Of the gold ore Nephi was com-manded of the Lord to make some plates on which tokeep the records of his people. The description given b} Nephi of the regionwhere the colon}- landed exactly corresponds with whatwe know of the country now called Chili; and it wason its coast, the Prophet Joseph Smith informs us, thatthe Nephites landed, and there the}- established theirfirst hom
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