The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

WONDERFUL ESCAPE.
experience would be different from mine. And yet, strange
as it may appear, he was not killed.
He says that after consciousness returned, strange, discordant sounds grated upon his ear, which, gradually dying
away, were succeeded by strains of such sweet music as
completely ravished his senses. He finally managed to
creep up the hill to the camp upon the mesa, where the
dead bodies of his father, mother, and sister met his gaze,
lying mutilated and bloody among the scattered remnants
of the wagons and their contents. He instantly missed the
bodies of Olive and Mary, and knew that they must have
been carried away captives. WVeary and faint, he succeeded
in dragging himself down towards the river, which, after
terrible suffering, he reached, almost famishing with thirst.
Here he laid himself down, and slept for several hours.
When he awoke, his first thought was to return to the Pimo
villages; and starting out, he travelled for two days, walking as long as he was able, and then crawling on his hands
and knees, resting himself whenever he could find the shade
of a friendly bush, delirious part of the time, and constantly
haunted by the fear that he should again fall into the hands
o)f the Indians. Every moment he grew weaker and weaker
from hunger and thirst. Death seemed inevitable. And at
last, yieldiing to despair, he laid himself down, expecting
every breath to be his last. How long he remained there
he cannot tell, but he was aroused to consciousness by the
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