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.

DI,S CIPLINE OF THE APACHES.
for camp. I started in haste, too; not because I was hungry,
as much as because I was lonesome and particularly anxious
to see my friends.
In thinking the thing over, I am convinced that there is
no white man living at the present time, who ever got over
more ground in a shorter space of time, than did I in
going from the clump of hackberry to our camp. When I
reached the camp I was somewhat "blown," and found that
I had very carelessly left my hat somewhere on the route.
I needed that hat badly, still I decided not to go back after
it, nor have I seen it to this day.
As soon as I could obtain a sufficient amount of breath
to enable me to explain the circumstances of my hasty entry
into camp, Captain Ewell started at once with eight of his
men, in the hope of overtaking them. We remained here
all day, and it was not until late in the evening that the
captain and his party returned, without having been able
to come up with the Indians, who managed to secrete
themselves as soon as they reached the mountains.
The Apaches, when on a raid or on the war-path, are
allowed to eat but one meal a day, and to rest but three
hours out of the twenlty-four. Their discipline when on
their excursions is splendid, quite equal to that of any army
of civilized soldiers, while their ability to endure the hard
ships and discomforts of a campaign is far superior to that
of white men.
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