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.

POOR JIMMY'S FRIGHT.
the despairing wail of human souls, who, during some terrible convulsion of nature, had, like "proud Knoral:'s
troop," mentioned in the old New England primer, been
swallowed up, while he believed himself approaching a
similar fate.
Rushing headlong towards the doctor, he besought him,
in the most agonizing tones, to "presarve him from beim'
carried among thim poor divils that was scraachin' at
him so'": nor could anything the doctor said reassure
hiln.
The constantly-increasing gloom, together with the terrific reverberations, but added to Jimmy's fear and confusion, and he started back, swearing that "all the divils in
hell shouldn't carry him a stip further." The doctor's calls
only accelerated Jimmy's footsteps, and finding that he was
reailly determined upon returning, he was obliged to send
two of the Indians after him, with instructions to bring him
back at all hazards, while he proceeded, with the others,
to the foot of the cafion, where, seating himself upon a huge
granite boulder, he waited Jimmy's appearance.
Bethinking himself of some pitch-ptne which was in his
luggage, he proceeded to light a splinter, that he might see
its effect upon the rocks and cliffs and fissures, which towered far above, and surrounded him on all sides.
The sight terrified even the doctor, who no longer wondered at Jimmy's frantic prayers to the Virgin, when he
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