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.

DEATH.
two hands, miself," many times, always forgetting to state,
however, that the Apache was a dead one.
For a few moments we stood and watched the captain and
his men toiling up the steep ascent, and then went forward
to assist in extricating the poor fellows, whose lives had
been so suddenly and unexpectedly crushed out. After
working for a couple of hours, we succeeded in recovering
the mangled and lifeless bodies from.under the mass of
rock; then slowly and with tender care we placed them upon
a litter made of their comrades' rifles, on which they were
borne to the mouth of the Pass, and there laid upon the
green grass, to await the arrival of the rest of the command,
who, with their captain, were scouring the rocks in the vain
hope of overtaking and punishing the lurking foe who had
attacked them inll such a cowardly mannlier.
After many and repeated attempts, the men succeeded
in removing a sufficient portion of the rocks that blocked
the passage of the cafion, to enable them to get out their
horses from behind the mass; and some hours later, Captain
Ewell and his men returned from their fruitless pursuit,
quite worn out with fatigue.
Upon reaching the top of the wall where the Apaches had
stood, they founa tons of rocks piled up, ready to be precipitated into the depths below; and close by the spot a
wounded Apache, which one of the men hastily dispatched
with his sabre. The rest of the band had disappeared as
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