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.

BOUND FOR APACHEDOM.
from stray bannds of Indians; and, after his consenting to
leave his brother in the hands of Major De Rythe, as hostage
for our safe return, we startlked for a trip to the home of the
Apaches, my object being, as much as anything else, to see
the country which every American in Arizona was confident
furnished the gold with which these Indians were so lavish
when they came into the settlements.
Cochise and myself each had one riding mule, and in
addition thereto I had three pack mules, one of which was
loaded down with two huge leathern bottles, holding about
six gallons each, filled with water.
It was a lovely morning, in June, that we started.
The parting with " Jimmy" was affecting, he swearing
"if he'd iver thought I was a goin' that way he would have
kilt me intirely before I started."
After leaving the Chiricahui Mountains, Cochise, striking
across the country in a northwesterly direction, soon came
upon a trail; following this trail, we travelled all day over
an alkali plain, which reflected the rays of the burning sun
with an intensity that would have done credit to the most
lhighly-polished mirror.
There was absolutely nothing to relieve the eye, but the
distant outline of the Chiricahui Mountains behind us, or
the rough line of the high country we were approaching,
save that occasionally we saw the beautiful blue waters of
a magnificent lake with its white-capped waves rolling
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