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.

FIRE- WORSHIPPERS.
or wolf, the bat, and the squirrel were sent out to procure
it. They proceeded to the mountain, from which they had
so recently issued, and the wolf, fastening some slivers of
gummy wood to his tail, held it over the crater until the
wood became ignited. The bat fanned the fire into a
flame by darting hither and thither, and then the squirrel
conveyed it to the Navajoes.
To this day not one of the Navajoes can be persuaded to
taste the flesh of either wolf or squirrel, or to move their
camp without taking with them a brand of fire.
Day and night were brought about by a difference in opinion among the animals. Those which preferred day are
still permitted to wander by daylight, while those which
chose "darkness rather than light," travel by night.
This account of the creation is fully believe I by all the
Navajoes. At this period in the old main's narration, Cochise came to inquire when I desired to return to the Pass.
I replied, without a moment's hesitation, "In the molning, of course."
His "esta buenno" was a most welcome sound to my ears,
I can assure you; and requesting him to bring the animals
for my inspection before we started, I wandered up to a
spot near by, where a number of squaws were engaged in
dressing deer-skins; as the Apaches are reputed to have
'the best method of tanning skins known among the Indians,
I watched the process with no little curiosity.
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