Observer and Telegraph reports early Church leaders saying Lehi landed in South America.
"The Golden Bible, or, Campbellism Improved," Observer and Telegraph (Hudson, Ohio) (18 November 1830)
This new Revelation, they say is especially designed for the benefit, or rather for the christianizing of the Aborigines of America; who, as they affirm, are a part of the tribe of Manasseh, and whose ancestors landed on the coast of Chili 600 years before the coming of Christ, and from them descended all the Indians of America.