It is in thus
looking, that many Christians see the great truth which makes the
Indians of America and the Jews beyond the great salt lake, one and
the same people."
"If this be so, let my brother tell us how far it is from our
hunting-grounds to that distant land across the great salt lake."
"I cannot give you this distance in miles exactly; but I suppose it
may be eleven or twelve times the length of Michigan."
"Will my brother tell us how much of this long path is water, and
how much of it is dry land?"
"Perhaps one-fourth is land, as the traveller may choose; the rest
must be water, if the journey be made from the rising toward the
setting sun, which is the shortest path; but, let the journey be
made from the setting toward the rising sun, and there is little
water to cross; rivers and lakes of no great width, as is seen here,
but only a small breadth of salt lake."
"Are there, then, two roads to that far-off land, where the red men
are thought to have once lived?
"Even so. The traveller may come to this spot from that land by way
of the rising sun, or by way of the setting sun."
The general movement among the members of the council denoted the
surprise with which this account was received.
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