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.

MASSACRE OF SIR. WHITE.
We passed a most enjoytl)lc day ill company with Mr.
and Mrs. White, and deeply regretted that they could remain no longer than the morrow with us.
It was nearly noon the next day when they took their
departure, the doctor and myself accompanying them some
miles on the road, leaving them about three o'clock in the
afternoon to pursue their tedious journey, while we returned
to Mesilla, delighted with our guests, the doctor declaring
in the fulness of his heart that hlie would willingly ride
over to Fort Buchanan any time for the pleasure of spending a day in the presence of such a "right clever" lady as
was Mrs. White.
Early the next morning we were awakened by the sound
of the great drum as it was beaten in the plaza. As this
drum was only beaten for the purpose of arousing the inhabitants to arms, I sprang to my feet, and hastily dressing,
made my way to the plaza, where I found assembled about
a dozen Mexicans, listening to the tale of a couple of
rancheros who had just arrived from the Mimbres.
They told us that about midnight, while coming in from
their ranche, they hadl found the dead bodies of two men.
one an American, the other a Mexican, lying by the roadside
scalped; and at a little distance from them, the remains of an
ambulance; also a fire still burning. Trunks broken open
and rifled of their contents were scattered by the roadside,
and evidences of a massacre were everywhere visible.
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