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.

CG[EAP F'CUL'L.
sky above our heads, and the gray alkali of the plains
around us.
On our left the peaks of the Chiricahui and the Thiee
Sisters lined the horizon, while far, far before us a faint
line of blue, almost indistinguishable from the azure of the
summer's sky, betrayed the location of the San Ignatio
Mountains of Sonora.
The plains around us were covered with an abundance of
cactus, wild sage, grease wood, and mesquit chalparral, at
once the curse and blessing of the Arizona rancheria; for
while it offers an almost impenetrable barrier to travellers
over the plain, it furnishes them with the only fuel to be
found. The wood-chopper of Arizona uses only a spade,
or mattock, in laying, in his winter supply of fire-wood, for
the roots of the mesquit alone furnish it.
The second day of our trip gave the doctor and myself
the most amusement, as well as the most vexation, of any
day during the journey.
It was nearly noon. Jimmy had ridden on ahead of the
doctor and myself, who were leisurely driving along, enjoying the shade afforded by the canvas covering of our Concord wagon, when the doctor called my attention to a
Lorseman far away to our right, riding at breakneck speed,
in a course which I knew was taking him directly into one
of the worst alkali plains on the whole route.
Wondering who it was, and what the man's object could
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