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.

COCHISE AG~Xl.2
De Rythe to send him some mules from the Apache Pass,
to enable him to return to Fort Buchanan.
This we did on our arrival, and the majcr at once sent
him a dozen. We afterwards learned that he reached the
fort safely; and ere many weeks had elapsed he had the
opportunity of administering to the Apaches a severe whipping, at the Puerta del Curcuco, near the Buseni ranche, in
the Santa Rita Mountains, where no less than sixteen of
the thieving rascals were left dead upon the field.
Our journey from the Dragoon Springs to the Apache
Pass was without incident worthy of note; and it was not
until noon of the next day that we entered this rocky cafion
which enabled us to pass through the Chiricahui Mountains.
After travelling for miles along a road so narrow that there
was barely room for one wagon between the steep and overhanging rocks, we finally reached the station. We found all
well, and Cochise on hand to receive us. We learned upon
inquiry, that Cochise mnd his five braves had only returned
that morning, after an absence of three days; and from this
circumstance, as well as from his peculiar looks when questioned about the Indians rho had stampeded the stock, I
was led to the belief that he and his party were among, the
band who had visited the camp at the Dragoon Springs.
Of course we could only conjecture this, as we had no proof
other than the very unsatisfactory replies to our questions
concerning their whereabouts during their absence. But
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