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.

WIG WAlfS AND FARMING UTENSILS.
are built of small poles, inserted in the ground, and bent
at the top to a common centre, interwoven with corn-husks,
straw, and rushes, so as to shed the rain, and protect the
inmates from the intense heat of the sun. Many of them
are also plastered over with mud. The doors are just large
enough to enable a person to creep in on hands and knees.
The cooking is all done in the open air, beneath a shed or
roof.
Every family has a granary, or store-house, which is
much larger and better constructed than their huts, and
which, in fact, they use for sleeping purposes as well as for
shelter from inclement weather.
There are about six thousand of these Indians, and they
have nearly a thousand separate enclosures, which are
divided by very excellent fences, made of crooked sticks
and mesquit. They have but few animals, and never use
the plough, the hoe being the only agricultural implement
they possess, except a few carts, which they have obtained
from the emigrant trains passing through their villages; and
yet, during the year of our visit, they had sold the mail company more than four hundred thousand pounds of wheat, besides large quantities of corn, beans, pumpkins, and melons.
WVhen we reflect that this soil has been cultivated for
nearly four hundred years that we have knowledge of, with
only the hoe, and without dressing, we can form some idea
of its fertility and productiveness.
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