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.

CHAPTER IX.
X11. )( Tthe time I left the Apache
Pass, I had some idea that a
trip into the Navajoe country,
Bye:~~~ ~at least as far as the seven
A~ k 8~i Moquis cities, might, possi bly, be a desirable one; and
that it might be successfully
made from the Apache ran cheria, especially as Cochise
/ii/ had informed me that these
[ndians were at peace with the Apaches, and that he could
easily act as guide through the country.
Miy visit to the rancheria, however, had completely extinguished every desire for further explorations; and, like John
Phoenix, in the San Francisco Female Convention, my only
desire was to "go home."
Still, curiosity prompted me to question Cochise concerning the country and its people; and he informed me that
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