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.

C'ONTENTS.
CHAPTER XIII.
A Visit to the Pimo Villages. -We leave Jimmy at San
Xavier.- Our Arrival among the Pimos.- Their Civiliza tion.- Four Hundred Miles of Acequias. - Their Houses.
- Their Weapons.- The only successful Apache Fighters.
- An Ark of Safety.- A Visit to the " Casas Grandes." —
Our first Sight of these Wonders of the Desert. - Their Con dition. - What Mr. Bartlett said of them in 1852. - A
Description of the Buildings.- The Elevation and Ground
Plan. - The Pottery found here.- Remarkable Evidences
of an Extinct Civilization- The Buildings supposed to be
Eight Hundred Years Old. - Forty Miles of Ruins.
The Work of whose Hands?-Father Pedro Font visits
them in 1775. -Extracts from a Manuscript Copy of his
Journal, - Condition of the Ruins at the Time of his Visit. -
A Description of them as Mangi found them in 1694. Father Kino says Mass in them in that Year. - What the
Government ought to do.- Speculations. - Return to the
Pimo Villages. - -......184
CHAPTER XIV.
The Montezuma Indians. -Their distinguishing Characteris tics.- The Ruins upon the Rio Verde and Salina River. -
The four-story Hiouses, and who built them. - Gold and
Silver Ornaments. - Cochise and the Apaches.- The Gold bearing Region of Arizona.- In the Heart of the Apache
Country. - Virgin Gold in the Hlands of the Apaches. They refuse all Information concerning it.- Felix Aubrey's
Visit to the Gold-bearing Region in 1849. - What he found
there.- Extent and Value of the Deposits.- The Indians
use Golden Bullets.- Aubrey's Death. - Silver.- The
Mountains full of it. - Gila City. - Up like a Rocket, down
like a Stick.- Good-by to the Pimos.- Return to Tucson.
- Jimmy puts in an Appearance. - What we saw in Taio
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