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.

APACHE CRUELTY.
after the moon had risen, that we again commenced the
pursuit.
The trail soon led us through a canon in the mountains,
which we followed; and just after daylight we reached a
spot where, from the confusion and numl)er of tracks visi)ble, it was evident the savages had halted but a few hours
before.
While watering our horses at a little spring which bubbled out from under a huge rock close by, one of the Mexicans came running up with the dead body of Mrs. White's
babe, which he had found lying behind a little bush near
the spring, thrust through and through a dozen times with
Apache spears. It was indeed a sickening sight. The
nude body of this boy-baby, with its gaping, ugly wounds,
that silently but eloquently appealed to every spark of
manliness in our breasts for revenge upon its foul murderers, and the low, excited cairahos of the Mexicans, told
more forcibly than words could have done, that the sight
had stirred even in their dull breasts unwonted fires of rage.
We decided to push on at once, without waiting, as we
had intended, for the military to overtake us; and tarrying here barely long enough to rest our animals, we
started on the still fresh trail once more.
Two hours' hard riding brought us through the caion
and out into the open plain beyond, when far ill the distance our guides pointed to a thin, blue, vapory smoke
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