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.

AN OASIS IN THE DESER T.
understand that we should be obliged to camp for the night
on the plains, without grass for our mules; but that by rising early in the morning, we should in a few hours reach
both water and grass.
Before noon of the next day we came to a little 3roya,
down which trickled a small stream.
Cochise soon made a little tank, by scooping out the sand
with his hands; this quickly filled with water, from which
our thirsty mules drank eagerly. Here we tarried for the
remainder of the day.
Early the next morning we started. Another day over
alkali plains, rocky mesas, and across aroyas and gullies,
until just at night we came to a low, green spot, where a
little spring gushed forth from the foot of the bluff, and
here we halted for the night.
Cochise killed an antelope with his bow and arrows,
which furnished us some juicy steaks, far preferable to the
hard, dry meat we had provided for the trip.
The next morning we commenced the ascent of the bluff.
And here let me disclaim the ability to give the reader anything but a faint idea of the scene that burst upon my view,
or the experiences of that day's travel.
No tongue ever spoke, no pen ever wrote, that could
adequately describe the grandeur and sublimity, as well as
the utter desolation, that appalls, while it enchants, the
travel]ler, through the perils that here beset him at every step.
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