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.

NOVEL MUSIC.
opportunity to appreciate and admire his elegant dress and
majestic bearing; and taking from his capacious pocket a
small piece of mirror, he proceeded to take a survey of his
ug,ly features with evident delight and satisfaction, slowly
repeating "Si, sehor, muy linda, muy linda;" or, Yes, sir;
very beautiful, very beautiful.
The old fellow's antics reminded me more of a fashionable dandy of the present day, than any animal I ever saw;
and I came to the conclusion that one could study human
nature quite as well in a Papago Indian, as in a Broadway
exquisite.
Jimmy was really overpowered by the magnificent strut of
Old Jose, and remarked to Dr. Parker, that "you could
aluz tell a borned king whiniver yer seen him," a truism
that neither Dr. Parker nor myself could contradict, as this
was the first specimen of the kind we had ever met, and
withal as bare a specimen of a monarch as ever swayed a
sceptre.
That evening we attended vesper service in the old
church, for the Papagoes still respect the religion of the
Catholic Church, taught to their ancestors more than two
centuries ago. I was surprised and delighted by the music;
it was novel and charming.
When the priest reached a certain portion of the service,
the air seemed suddenly filled by the warbling of ten thousand birds, whose melodious notes rose and fell and
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