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.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
on his success as a diplomat. Cochise departed with Mangus, and after an absence of a couple of hours, returned,
saying, that he could have the animals on hand early in the
morning, and advising me to retire very soon, so as to
"sleep much," which advice I followed. Quieted by
the thought of a speedy return to the Pass, I soon sank into
a profound slumber, such as I had not experienced before
since my advent into Apachedom.
I was aroused early by Cochise, with the pleasant in.
formation that one of my mules had mysteriously disappeared, nor could "hide or hair" of him be found anywhere.
I knew it was useless to attempt to recover him, and
mentally promising myself, that if I once got safely away,
Mang,us should never receive the presents I had promised
him, I determined to set out at once with my four remain
ing animals.
Declining firmly all offers of trade, I made a hasty breakfast, and fully an hour before sunrise found me toiling up
one rf the steep paths worn into the face of the bltff that
environs the Apache rancheria.
Our journey lay over the same parched alkali country, the
same arid desert waste, unrelieved by the sight of a green
thing, which I had crossed when going to the village.
About the middle of the afternoon we reached the only
c:lmping,-ground before we came to the cafion we were to
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