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.

RETURN OF THE CHIEF.
Cochise soon announced, much to my relief, that it was
a portion of their own band, who had gone out under
Mangus Colorado, for a raid into Sonora. They had been
gone about "a moon"; and judging from the number of
cattle and mules driven before them, the raid must have
been a successful one.
As soon as it was known that Mangus Colorado was returning, the excitement at once subsided. The braves
released the lower jaws of their horses from their lariats,
and permitted them to stroll at will over the green sward,
while they lazily reposed in the sun. The squaws went
out to gather fuel and perform such labor as usually falls
to the male portion of humanity.
Feeling some misgivings as to the reception I might receive at the hands of Mangus Colorado, I could not refraiu
from asking Cochise, in as ntonchala)t a manner as possible, what Mangus Colorado would say to see a white man
so quietly domiciled in his village.
"Oh!" said Cochise, "I sent him word as soon as I
knew it was he, and you know too, he is the'white man's
friend.'"
The barking of hundreds of curs, the shouting of braves,
with the shrill voices of the women, now announced the
appearance, on the top of the bluff, of about thirty warriors.
Under the circumstances, I thought it best to remain out
of sight as much as possible until such time as Mangns
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