What the Jaredites Left Behind

The Inlet of Khor Rori where Nephi built his ship. Construction moorings can still be seen indented in the ground off the waterline.

During the four years the Jaredites lived along the coast of the “sea that divideth the land,” they would have planted some of their seeds for the harvesting of crops, the bees they brought with them would have helped spread the flora of the area and built natural hives and bred on their own, and animals brought with them would have multiplied considerably in those four years, plus another year perhaps to build the barges.
Thousands of wild camels still roam the area where the Jaredites stayed for four years in what is now called Khor Rori.

In the economy of the Lord, it is not unusual for one group of people to prepare a way for those who come after them. Thus, when the Nephites arrived in the land they called Bountiful, which was the same area the Jaredites occupied for over four years, the Nephites found honey bees (which they did not bring with them and which have never been considered indigenous to the area), plants, flora and fauna unique to the area of the Arabian Peninsula.
Caves filled with ancient bee hives dot the area of coastal Salalah, especially just above Khor Rori.

That the Jaredites would have traveled across the Arabian Peninsula by camel is a foregone conclusion, since any other animal would not have been sufficient to move more than 100 people, plus living supplies and provisions, animals and seeds, etc., across such a desert. Even today, the area of Khor Rori and Salalah are overrun with wild camels to such an extent that the Omani government is paying to have them caught and exterminated. And since the Jaredites would have been husbandmen, they would have understood how to breed, cross-breed, and develop cameloids from their camels, such as the alpaca and llama, which are the only two unknown animals of such a “help to man” ever found in the Western Hemisphere, called the cumoms and cureloms by the Jaredites.

After the Jaredites landed in the Land of Promise with their multitude of animals, many migrated south into the Land Southward, where the Nephites found them after they landed there generations later.

One of the problems with Mesoamerican and other Theorists is that they get so caught up in trying to prove their singular points (location of the Hill Cumorah, where certain cities must have been based on ruins found, etc.) that they fail to see a bigger, overall picture like the one the Lord has in mind when He brings about his purposes.

When the Saints traveled across the plains to Utah in the 1840s, two wagon trains came within a few months of each other with Brigham Young leading the way in the first train (my great grandfather, appointed by Pres Young, leading the second). The second train did not try to find a different path to the same location, but traveled the same way the first had gone. When the Nephites were led across the many waters to the Land of Promise, they followed the same path the Jaredites had take centuries earlier, using the same sea currents and wind directions. And though we do not know anything about the Mulekites' direction and embarkation point, it also stands to reason in the economy of the Lord, that they took the same path and left from the same point as did the Nephites a dozen years before them.

Common sense alone should suggest to any researcher that the economy of the Lord has ever been His way of directing the affairs of man, and that the three different groups led to the Land of Promise, each landing within a few miles of each other, would have taken the same path, used the same sea currents and winds, that have never changed since the earth was moved into its present location.