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.

A NOVEL OPERATION.
there were then residing at the rancheria two Navajoes,
who could give me all the information I desired concerning
them.
Requesting Cochise to bring them to me on the morrow,
I composed myself to sleep, with as good a grace as possible, after the events of the day.
The sun was several hours high when I repaired to my
dressing-room the next morning. There was quite a crowd
of women and children present, who witnessed the spectacle
of washing face and hands with great gusto. I was quite
convinced that these children of nature were entirely unused
to any such sight, as much from their own personal appearance, as from their looks of wonderment at seeing me per
form my ablutions.
Untutored children of the Darwinian thoory I They could
gaze at the marvels of nature spread around them with such
unsparing, prodigality; could see a white woman fiendishly
tortured, and made to sufifer the most horrible indignities,
or a white man brutally murdered, without a sign of emotion upon their faces; but the sight of a man washing his
face and hands almost convulsed them with laughter.
After eating my breakfast, I spread my blanket beneath
the shade of a pine-tree that grew near by, and, lighting
my pipe, proposed to enjoy myself as well as possible under
the circumstances.
Cochise soon made his appearance, bringing, with him an
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