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.

FRIENDS OR FOES?
While making a hasty meal of beef and atole, I became
conscious that something of an extraordinary nature was going on in the village. Even Cochise seemed excited as he
informed me that the scouts had signalled the approach of a
large party of Indians, but whether friendly or otherwise
could not as yet be ascertained, so great was their distance
from the village. They were probably Apaches, though
possibly they might be Mojaves, with which tribe the
Apaches were then at war.
Here was a situation which I had not anticipated. To be
killed in an Apache village as an Apache, was a fate of
which I had never dreamed, even in the wildest surmises
as to the probable termination of my earthly career. With
as much indifference as I could assume, I asked Cochise
his opinion of the advancing party. His reply, " Quien
Sabe?" was anything but consoling to me in my present
situation.
Regretting the temerity that had induced me to undertake
such an expedition, I hastily finished my breakfast, and
went out of my hut, to find the larger portion of the people
assembled on the top of the bluff, gazing at the approaching band. A dozen or so of the braves had sprung on to
their ponies and were riding across the plains as fast as
their animals could carry them. All was confusion and
excitement. Some of the warriors were examining their
spear-heads, others their bows and arrows.
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