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.

THE JOURNEY OF DEATH.
Well did Cochise call it the "Jornada del Muerte," or
Journev of Death.
Imagine, if you can, a valley or plain eighty miles in
width, and extending for hundreds of miles on either side
of you. It is a valley, only because you are surrounded by
interminable ranges of mountains; it is a plain, only because
there are mountains before you and mountains behind you.
To your uneducated eye, it presents a smooth and uibroken surface, yet there is hardly a level spot upon its face.
It is a mass of canions, ravines, ridges, gullies, chasms, and
mountains, piled one above another in inextricable confusion, in all conceivable shapes, towering above and around
you on all sides.
Cathedrals of huge size, castles, rotundas, amphitheatres
with domes and towers, are on every hand, while yonder,
rising a thousand feet in the air, is a strange resemblance
to a mighty organ, with its pipes consisting of huge columns of green, white, blue, brown, and pink sandstone
towering high above you, with the tops worn by the winds
and waters into points seemingly like needles. Count
them: there are forty.
While we are wondering what mighty Mechanic constructed
this huge instrument, and whose fingers press its wonderful
key-board, our guide strikes once more into the path, scarce
twelve inches in width, and we move forward again on the
Apache trail. We commence to descend the banks of a
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