Revelation attributed to Joseph Smith locates Lehi's landing place as Chile.

Date
1884
Type
Book
Source
Franklin D. Richards
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Unsourced
Reference

Franklin D. Richards and James A. Little, A Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1884), 289

Scribe/Publisher
Deseret News
People
Franklin D. Richards
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

LEHI'S TRAVELS.—Revelation to Joseph the Seer. The course that Lehi and his company traveled from Jerusalem to the place of their destination:

They traveled nearly a south, southeast direction until they came to the nineteenth degree of north latitude; then, nearly east to the Sea of Arabia, then sailed in a southeast direction, and landed on the continent of South America, in Chili, thirty degrees south latitude.

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