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.

RETURN TO TUCSON.
found these ruins in 1674. In 1775, more than a hundred
years later, Father Font describes them. Bartlett describes
them as he found them in 1851. The writer found them in
about the same condition in 1859, with the exception of the
south wall, no part of which was then standing; all the remaining walls have upon them the hieroglyphics of ambitious
Americans, who have greatly defaced the smooth polished
surface by inscribing their names or marks upon them.
We were rather desirous of visiting the ruins on the
Salinas, about forty miles above those of the " Casas
Grandes"; but after repeated assurances from Mr. St. John
and our Pimo guides, that the visit with so small a party
would be the height of imprudence, and not caring to risk
an encounter with the Apaches, we reluctantly turned our
backs upon the ruins, en route once more for the Pimo villages, which we reached on the evening of the next day,
quite satisfied with our journey, and anxious to reach Tucson, where we hoped to find Jimmy with the mules all safe,
and ready to start for the Mesilla.
We were obliged, however, to remain still longer in the
villages, as no stage east was due until the following day; so
making the best of it, we found comfortable bunks in the
station of the mail company, and the next day we spent
among the Pimos, learning what we could of their history
and manner of living, and gathering much interesting information concerning them.
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