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.

'PRISONERS.
The rancheros had broulght with them such articles as
they could collect, some of which I recognized at once
as belonging to Mr. White. The men were confident that
the bodies of neither of the women were there, which fact
made it evident that they, with the child, had been carried
away by the savages.
Requesting the alcalde, who by this time had arrived
upon the ground, to have them continue beating the drum
for a time, I mounted a horse and started at once for Fort
Fillmore, to inform the officers stationed there of the occurrence. Meeting Lieutenant Howland of the First Dragoons near the fort, I reported the facts to him, and he
informed me that as soon as possible he would dispatch a
squad of dragoons in pursuit.
Returning to Mesilla I found about fifty Mexicans assenmbled in the plaza with their horses and rifles, ready to
start at once in pursuit of the Indians; and knowing well
that some delay must necessarily occur before the troops
would be ready to accompany them, both the doctor and
myself, as well as half a dozen other Americans present,
volunteered to go with the party, and urged so strongly
the necessity of an immediate start, that Captain Pardilla,
the commandant of the Mexican force, gave the necessary
orders, and we set forth, accompanied by Don Jesus Armijo,
and Don Manuel Chabes, two of the most celebrated Mexican guides in the country, as scouts.
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