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.

CHAPTER XIII.
arguments pro and con, Dr. Parker and
myself finally decided to leave our
wagon and mules at Tucson, in charge
of Jinimy, and take the overland mailcoach to the Pimo villages on the
Gila,- or swift running water,- from
which place we determined to start on
our visit to the celebrated " Casas
Grandes" situated near that stream, which for many years
have engaged the attention of the scientific men and savans
of the Pacific coast.
We were not surprised to receive from Jimmy a most
earnest, but respectful protest against our leaving him in
what he was pleased to term the "divil's own counthry,
shure"; and it was a long time before he became reconciled
to our making the trip without him.
It was at last decided, however, that he should remain at
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