$25,000 of other wealth, real estate, lends many houses in the city,
and this is an ensample of many of the Islatus nation. They allow
no white man or Mexiacan to mix with them in the blood; all their
marriages are in their own tribe. Our friend (Reylocero) said the
Americans had called them wild men. If they were wild, they were
honest and virtuous. It was very seldom that a case of seduction of
a wife or daughter was ever known in their tribes. Whenever such a
case did occur, the penalty of death was exedcuted and had been for
centuries, until civilization was introduced by Americans, who had
introduced seduction and corruption wherever they had a chance, and
now, if a man was put to death for seduction, the civilization of the
day would kill him. In fact, they were so much afraid of white men
coming kin contact with their women, that Brothers Tenney and Robert
H. Smith, of the 15th Ward, Salt Lake City, three years ago, came
near starving to death before they got thoroughly acquainted with
them, as they were not willing for them to go into the presence of
their women, but after the old patriarch had full confidence in
Brother Tenney, he put his granddaughter (a very handsome young woman)
in his charge, as he was going away for a season and a young Mexican
wished to court her, and the old gentleman did not wish him to marry
her. And, as the people in that village had full confidence in him,
on our arrival we were kindly received and entertained by all we
called upon. I look upon the Islatus as the most industrious and
hard laboring people of any I ever met with (tehe Latter-day Saints
not excepted). This Nephite village has a field of corn ten miles
in length and one in width, laying north and south fof their village,
all irrigated, and the corn quite as good as any I ever saw in Utah,
and perfectly clean; not a weed could be found in a hundred axcres.

$25,000 of other wealth, real estate, lends many houses in the city, and this is an ensample of many of the Islatus nation. They allow no white man or Mexican to mix with them in the blood; all their marriages are in their own tribe. Our friend (Reylocero) said the Americans had called them wild men. If they were wild, they were honest and virtuous. It was very seldom that a case of seduction of a wife or daughter was ever known in their tribes. Whenever such a case did occur, the penalty of death was executed and had been for centuries, until civilization was introduced by Americans, who had introduced seduction and corruption wherever they had a chance, and now, if a man was put to death for seduction, the civilization of the day would kill him. In fact, they were so much afraid of white men comingin contact with their women, that Brothers Tenney and Robert H. Smith, of the 15th Ward, Salt Lake City, three years ago, came near starving to death before they got thoroughly acquainted with them, as they were not willing for them to go into the presence of their women, but after the old patriarch had full confidence in Brother Tenney, he put his granddaughter (a very handsome young woman) in his charge, as he was going away for a season and a young Mexican wished to court her, and the old gentleman did not wish him to marry her. And, as the people in that village had full confidence in him, on our arrival we were kindly received and entertained by all we called upon. I look upon the Islatus as the most industrious and hard laboring people of any I ever met with (the Latter-day Saints not excepted). This Nephite village has a field of corn ten miles in length and one in width, laying north and southof their village, all irrigated, and the corn quite as good as any I ever saw in Utah, and perfectly clean; not a weed could be found in a hundred acres.