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.

OVERTAIKEN BY APACHES.
three or four miles, to visit a pass, or canon, in the mountains, whose beauty I had often heard extolled l)y Captain
Ewell. I had gone nearly two miles from camp, and was
admiring the grandeur of the mountain scenery before me,
whose peaks were fairly gleaming in the rays of the risilng,
sun, when my ear caught the sound of unshod horses' feet
resounding on the hard, pebbly soil, like the muffled gallop
of a distant squad of cavalry. Failing to detect the sharp
ring of the iron hoofs of our American horses, I at once
decided that it was a party of Indians approaching. Hastily
secreting myself behind a thickL clump of hackberry, I
breathlessly awaited further developments; nor had I long,
to wait, for I soon saw approaching a party of eight Apaches,
each bestriding all animal gaudily caparisoned with eagles'
feathers and brass ornaments.
They passed very near me,- so near, in fact, that I wvas
enabled to note the face and peculiar ornaments of each
one of the party. Not a sound was heard save the footsteps of their horses, nor was a word spoken as long as
they remained in sight. Each one was nlaked, save the
breech-clout, and carried ill his hand the hated spear sc
well known and dreaded among the settlers in Arizona,
while to the saddles of four of theparty was tied an old
Mississippi Yauger, of antiquated make and flint lock,
yet quite effective in the hands of Apaches. Their faces
and bodies were well striped with vermilion, ochre, and
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