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.

INDItANS AHEAD.
of a beautiful castle, or perchance a graceful Turkish mosque,
with its towers and minarets, its domes and arches, so perfect that we could but gaze in wonder at the transforma
tion, so enchanting, yet so instantaneous. Close by, barren
hills of gravel and sandstone, serrated by floods, and worn
by storms into perfect honeycombs, were to be seen; while
here and there a magnificent Cereus Grandes, the sentinel
of the desert, reared its head twenty, thirty, and even forty
feet in the air, covered with beautifully variegated blossoms,
and looking like some graceful shaft erected by nature
herself, and decked with beautiful wreaths, that she might
add a charm to the sterility of the soil, or perhaps the bright
scarlet blossoms of a prickly-pear would be seen peeping
out from behind the gray green of the mesquit, the whole,
like the mountains, overhung by the rich purple tints of an
Arizona atmosphere, relieved only by the clear blue smoke
lazily ascending from the Indian camp-fires on the mountainsides around us. Altogether, it was a picture both beautiful and pleasant to contemplate; and'twas with no small
degree of vexation that we heard one of the scouts inform
Captain Ewell that he had sighted a party of Indians some
distance ahead of us, notwithstanding we had all been
wishing for an encounter with them, that we might see the
"brave boys in blue," who were with us, astonish them
with their new Spencer carbines.
Captain Ewell at once gave the order to start in pursuit,
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