where they remained until they were, by Heaven's permission, exhumed and translated by the Prophet Joseph Smith. This hill is situated about three or four miles from Palmyra, in the State of New York.
CURELOM. A useful animal known to the Jaredites. By some supposed to be the Mastodon, by others the Llama or Alpaca (Ether 9:19).
CUSH. A land, supposed to be Ethiopia, mentioned (II Nephi, 21:11) in a quotation from the prophecies of Isaiah.
DAMASCUS. The chief city of Syria, mentioned four times in quotations from the book of Isaiah.
DAVID. The king of Israel. The name is mentioned in Nephi's quotations from Isaiah; he is also referred to in Jacob's discourse on polygamy.
DAVID, LAND OF. A land, probably in the most northern part of South America, from which the Nephites, under Mormon, were driven, A. C. 328, by the armies of the Lamanites; they then retreated to the land of Joshua, which was on the western sea coast. This is the only time that this land is mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
DESERET. The Jaredite name for the honey bee. The original colony carried these bees with them from Asia to America. (Ether 2:3.)
DESOLATION, CITY OF. Though the land of Desolation is so frequently referred to in the earlier annals of the Nephites, nothing is said of a city of that name until the time of the great final war between the Nephites and Lamanites, and we are left in doubt as to whether it was built or not, until after the advent of the Redeemer. Some suppose it was the place where Hagoth's shipyards originally stood; it is evident it was on the sea coast, as we are told that after one important battle the bodies of the slain were thrown
