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.

TUBAC.
as brave as Julius Caesar, and as cool as a cucumber, never
losing his presence of mind under any circumstances. He
was at war with the Apaches, and took every opportunity
to "bag" some of them, as he expressed it. Only a few
days before, he had followed a party who had stolen some of
his cattle, and not only recovered the stock, but "batgged"
two of the Indians, of which fact he felt justly proud.
A hearty supper of venison, with plenty of good coffee to
enliven us during the evening, and help us swallow some of
the Indian stories Bill entertained us with, together with
a clean, sweet bed to sleep in,- the first we had occupied
since we left Mesilla, - rested and refreshed us for our
morrow's journey.
A delightful drive of some twenty miles through a most
beautiful portion of the Territory, was the route for the
day. We passed numerous traces of former cultivation, in
the shape of unused and dry acequias, extending for miles
in all directions, together with the remains of old ranches
and adobe walls, which presented a sad contrast to the
bright beauties of the day and the green bottom-lands of the
Santa Cruz. It was late in the afternoon when we reached
Tubac, which at that time was the head-quarters of the most
refined and intelligent portion of the inhabitants of the Territory,- gentlemen from the East, in charge of the silver
mines in this vicinity; scientific men, sent out to explore
and report upon newly-discovered mines; GCerman metallur
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