CHAPTER XVII.

Travel Many Days in the Wilderness--Call the Land Nephi--Did They Journey Northward?--Location of Land Nephi--River Sidon and Magdalena--Land of Zarahemla--Twenty-two Days' Travel from Nephi--Did not Land of Nephi Extend Considerably South?--Zeniff's Return to the Land of Nephi--Was that the Land Settled by Nephi, the First?--Mosiah, King of Zarahemla--Reasons for Thinking Nephi to be Distinguishing Name of an Extensive Region--Nephites Would Spread Over the Country in Four Hundred Years--Did Nephi and Company Travel as far North as Ecuador?--Followed by Lamanites--Jacob and Enos Respecting Lamanites--Nephi's Description of the Land--Bolivia and Peru--Cities and Settlements Called After Founders--Additional Reasons for Thinking Nephi and Company did not Settle so far North--Boundaries of Lands Occupied by Nephites and Lamanites--South America Called Lehi, North America Called Mulek