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 BURIAL BY NIGHT.
completely as if the earth had opened and swallowed
them.
After a short rest we again took up the line of march for
camp, the men carefully bearing with them the dead bodies
of their two comrades. It was quite dark ere we reached
camp. The captain immediately detailed four men to dig
a grave upon a little eminence near by, and the bodies
of Wilbur Carver and Charles Tucker were wrapped in
their blankets and deposited within its narrow walls.
We stood by with uncovered heads, while Captain Ewell
touchingly repeated a portion of the beautiful burial service
of the Episcopal Church; and as the solemn words, "I am
the resurrection and the life," fell upon my ears for the
first time in many months, they awakened a host of long-forgotten memories, which came trooping up and crowding
one upon the other in such quick succession that I quite
forgot the sad scene which I was there to witness, as well
as the circumstances that had caused it; nor did I wake
from my reverie until the last sad duties were finished, and
the men had returned to camp. Then the doctor touched me
upon the shoulder, and we silently turned from the sad
scene, and wended our way to the station.
It was late that night before we retired, right glad of the
prospect of a rest after the fatigue and excitement of the
day, and well-satisfied of the fallacy of pursui ig Apaches in
their native fastnesses with regular cavalliS.
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