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.

A DEAD COLONEL.
and Phil were firm friends and boon companions. After
Ned had subsisted for months on roots and berries in the
Californian mountains, enduring every hardship, and successfully evading the clutches of the Vigilance Committee,
he finally nianaged to escape into Arizona, a place where the
statutes never trouble, and the wicked are at rest. It was
said, that though Ned had killed at least a dozen men in his
life, he never killed one save in behalf of some friend's
quarirel.
Here, too, was Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson, Kinney's
lieutenant in his celebrated Nicaragtia expedition, a few
years before. He had sotught all asylum ill Arizon)a, where
he was living, apparently happy and comfortable.
Wre also met Ex-Governor Gandera, the last governor of
Sonora. He was an exile from home, anxiously waiting
for the newly-appointed governor to send him a permit to
return to his family.
But why particularize? Many there were, all distinguislhed for something, -all characters of some kind. One
might write a book concerning them, but who would care
to read it?
Within an hour after we left Colonel Johnson, a report
reached us that he had been killed by our friend, Colonel
Robinson, and so it proved.
As we stood beside the body, which, but an hour before,
we had seen 3so full of life and activity, we could but fee]
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