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.

204 NED MC GO WAN AND PHIL HERBERT.
like a peon; that he was a nasty baste, g(,in' round the
house naked as he was borned. No kiing ivir did that in
ould Ireland," said Jimmy; "and if the old haythin hadn't
so many of thim sneakin' Injuns round, I should have bin
jist timpted to have given him a touch of a raeal ould Irish
shillalah."
Poor Jimmy! He had learned that a little brief authority will make itself felt wherever it can, and that Jimmy
alone was a far different person in the eyes of old Josd
than the Jimmy who accompanied Dr. Parker and myself
on our visit to the old mission of San Xavier del Bac.
After debating the matter with Dr. Parker, we finally
decided to spend the next day at Tucson, accepting the
hospitality of Colonel Robinson, who very kindly offered to
show us around the town, and introduce us to some of the
celebrities of the city. During the day we met Phil Herbert,
formerly a member of Congress from California. the man
who. during his term of service, killed one of the waiters
at Willard's Hotel, in Washington. He appeared genial
and companionable, but those best acquainted with him said
he was atoning for his "mistake of a life-time," by that
bitter remorse which always follows in the wake of an
action like that committed by Herbert. In any event, he
was doing his utmost to drown the memory of the deed in
the dissipation offered in a life on the Arizona frontier.
Ned McGowan was another Californian character. He