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.

CAS TLES IN THE AIR.
when Cochise abruptly stopped, and pointing over the edge
of the bluff, said, as I thought, with no small degree of pride,
"Look! Apache home!"
I did look, and the sight which greeted my eyes made an
indelible impression upon me.
A beautiful valley, carpeted with a rich green-sward, extending fully three miles in length, and nearly, if not quite,
a mile in width, through which a stream, with water clear as
crystal, meandered over its bed of pebbles,- its banks
skirted with a kind of small willow, whose foliage of yellowish green contrasted strangely with the darker shade of the
grass, and all surrounded by a range of bluffs, fully a hundred feet high, worn into representations of castellated forts,
with bastions, scarps, lunettes, gorges, and curtains, till
one could almost fancy the whole encompassed by an impregnable fortress.
Scattered up and down the valley were the Apache huts,
looking, with their yellow thatch, like the inverted halves
of so many huge melons.
Before nearly every door a little camp-fire was burning,
from which the smoke was lazily ascending, until, losing
its density, it was lost in air.
Far towards the upper end of the valley could be seen
peacefully grazing a large herd of cattle, ponies, and mules;
while near the lower end a few patches ot squaw corn
loomed up, as though proudly marking the only visible
t;,e.s of,ivilization.
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