Utah And the Mormons the History Government Doctrines Customs And Prospect
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The destructive properties of the locust of Eastern coun- tries. All vegetation was swept clean before its fright- ful progress as effectually as the grass before the scorching fury of a prairie conflagration, and the crops 160 UTAH AND THE MORMONS. put in with so much toil, and on which so much de- pended, were fast disappearing. Suddenly, however, flocks of white gulls floated over the mountain tops, with healing in their wings, and stayed this withering destruction by feasting upon the destr...oyer. It is no matter for wonder that the leaders should place this in the list of miraculous interpositions in their favor, nor that the mass of the Saints should implicitly believe that the gulls were hatched into sudden maturity for the occasion ; but it is a little strange that one, of the evident intelligence of Colonel Kane, should speak of these fowl as " before strangers to the valley. " The crickets and the gulls have been annual visitors since, as they were before, the bane and the antidote together ; and the Mormons have been able to raise enough to supply not only their own wants, but a sur- plus for the emigrants to California and Oregon.
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