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.

AN UNEARTHLY DANCE.
to be tassels, but which proved to be trophies of the raid.
Two of these scalps had attached to them long, flowing
tresses, which clearly denominated the murdered ones to
iave been women. It was a horrid sight, and I wished
myself well out of it.
By this time the moon was shining brightly, illuminating
tne valley around us and the bluffs beyond, giving to them
a strange, phantom-like appearance, that was greatly enhanced by the faint flicker of a hundred camp-fires, which
cast a sort of lurid glare over the dusky forms flitting
about.
Occasionally a bright flame shot high into the air, and
b)roug,ht into bold relief the line of bluffs on the opposite
side of the stream, giving to them the semblance of being
covered with an army of misshapen giants.
Some twenty squaws now made their appearance, dressed
d la Apache, their coarse black hair hmgingo unkempt about
them. Forming a circle around the fire and lance, they
commenced swaying their bodies to the sound of two drums
that were beaten by some of the men, while others uttered
a low, monotonous chant, keeping time with a kind of rattle
made of gourds, containing small stones, bits of bone, etc.
As the drums were beaten faster and faster, the noise of
the rattles became more furious, which, mingling with the
sharp, shrill tones of the squaws, made the most infernal
din imaginable. Suddenly one of the old hags snatched
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