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.

JI[3IlY BECOMES VALIANT.
him, in an attempt to scale the almost perpendicular walls,
upon the top of which were the Apaches, whose demoniacal
yells resounded through the narrow defile, rendering confusion worse confounded. Several of the men were endeavoring to release two of their companions, who with their
horses had been struck to the earth by the terrible missiles
hurled from above.
As yet not an Indian had been seen. The doctor caught a
glimpse of a head peering over the edge of rock far above
us, and raising his rifle, fired without even pausing to take
aim. Down came the naked body of an Apache, his bow
still tightly grasped in his hand. As he tumbled over and
over, rebounding from against the steep walls, he struck
the ground but a short distance in advance of us. Jimmy,
rushing forward, commenced kicking the body in the most
valiant manner, exclaiming at the same time, "There, ye
dhirty, naked divil, git behind another rock, will yez, and
thry to kill honest min that's passin' thro' th' counthry a
sight-sain'; take that, will yez?" and he bestowed kick
after kick upon the mangled body, after which he grasped
the b)ow, and wrenching it from the grip of death with
which it was held, again joined us, completely exhausted
by his frantic efforts for revenge. For rhonths afterwards
this bow proved to be Jimmy's best card; for he related the
story of his "capturin' it from an Apache, shure, wid these
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