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Ammon. ten years old, of what he had done, and placed the buried treasures in his charge. He instructed Mormon to go when he was about twenty-four years old, to the hill where they were hidden, and take the plates of Nephi and record thereon what he had observed “concerning the people.” The remainder of the records, etc., he was to leave where they were. After this we have no information of Ammaron's life. He must have been a very old man, as his father Amos died 126 years before the time that he buried the sacred engravings.  AMMON. A descendent of Zarahemla, (either his son or grandson,) who led a party of sixteen picked men from Zarahemla to Lehi-Nephi in the reign of Mosiah II, in the endeavor to discover what had become of the people of Zeniff. They were unacquainted with the road and wandered for forty days in the wilderness before they reached their destination. Ammon then chose three companions, Amaleki, Helem and Hem, to go forward and reconnoiter. They were discovered by king Limhi and his guards when near the city and cast into prison, being mistaken for the apostate priests of king Noah. After two days they were again brought before the king, when mutual explanations ensued and Ammon to his joy found that he had reached those for whom he was in search. But Limhi's people were in great distress, and in bondage to the Lamanites. The next day Limhi assembled his people at the temple, that they might all hear of the prosperity of their brethren in Zarahemla, at the recital of which they greatly rejoiced. Limhi and his people also wished to make covenant with God by baptism, but there was no one among them authorized to administer this ordinance, and Ammon would not, considering himself an unworthy servant. Their next study was to escape from their Lamanitish taskmasters, which they shortly afterwards effected with the aid of Ammon and Gideon; Ammon and 