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.

TORTURE OF A MEXICAN GIRL.
feet from the ground. A fire was then kindled beneath
her, and as the flames reached her flesh, scream after scream
issued from the lips of the poor victim. Onte after another
of these brave Apaches plucked a burning, brand from the
fire and applied it to the quivering flesh of the wretched
girl, till finally death released her from her terrible sufferings. The,body was then hacked to pieces with sharp
stones, the pieces burned upon the fire, and the ashes scattered to the winds, in order to purify the air, and thus
appease the wrath of the malign spirit.
I fully realized the truth of the old adage, "Where ignorance is bliss,'tis folly to be wise," upon hearing a niarration of the above facts, from au old Arizonian, more than
a year after my return from the Apache rancheria.
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