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.

YETV VERSION OF THE CREATION.
Horse-racing and gambling are the only amusements of
the people.
They have a religion peculiar to themselves-worshipping,
the Great Spirit, who, according to their belief, made the
Navajoes the first occupants of the earth;. and in moving
their ca.mp from place to place, they always carry with them
a brand of fire, which singular custom the old man explained
in this wise: In the beginning, the Great Spirit created
twelve Navajoes-six men and six women. They were
confined in the middle of a great mountain, with all the
animals created. They emerged from the earth in the following manner:
The locust and the badger aided them in boring through
the ground. The locust bored the first hole, but finding it
too small, called to his assistance the badger; and by their
united efforts, they soon had an aperture sufficiently large
for the Navajoes to come forth. The badger preceded them,
111n 1, springing out, he lighted upon the bottom of a lake
in the Montezuma Valley, and his fore legs sinking into the
mire, were covered with black mud, and remained black to
this day.
No sooner were the Navajoes and all the animals out of
the mountain, than fire and smoke began to issue from
the hole whence they had emerged. This so frightened
them that they went down into the valleys; but shortly
after they discovered that they needed fire, and the coyote,
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