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.

4 TPIOUBLED SLEEP.
Tired and exhausted, we wrap ourselves in our blankets,
a,nd throw ourselves upon the ground to sleep.
To sleep, did I say?
No; for again the scenes of the day pass in rapid succession before us. Our fears, our doubts, the descent of that
perilous path, all a thousand times more fraught with danger
than we had imagined at the outset.
While we are debating in our minds whether we shall be
able to cross in safety an immense fissure that yawns frightfully before us, we hear the voice of Cochise saying "ariva,"
and we awake to a repetition of yesterday's toils.
I am fully aware, kind reader, that I have failed to give
you but a faint idea of the perils that beset the traveller
into the Apache wilds. I only wish I possessed the pencil
of a Bierstadt, that I might portray upon canvas some of the
features of the remarkable country which I visited during,
my two weeks' trip with Cochise.
Another day over a country presenting the same striking
characteristics as those over which we had so recently passed.
The same alkali powder, fissures, chasms, and turfiess soil,
relieved only by the misshapen rocks of brown and yellowish granite, that seemed to have been thrown togethelr )y
some terrible convulsion of nature, the power of which no
human creature could conceive.
Late in the afternoon, Cochise called my attention to four
or five small black specks in the distance, ap)parently perched
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