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.

ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.
upon the Rio Grande. We did not meet the military, as
they deemed it useless to follow us.
Nearly a year afterward, a friend in Tucson sent me a
portion of the case of a little watch that had been taken
fram a recently captured Apache. It bore the name of E.
J. White.
Reader, my sad tale is told.
While tarrying here, I determined to put into execution a
long-cherished plan that I had formed,- to visit the scenes
so graphically described by old Father Niza, in his report
to the Emperor Charles V., concerning the great city of
Cibola (or, as it was called by the Spaniards, Zuni,) and its
inhabitants.
At the time of the author's residence in Arizona, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico were one, and as one
we p)ropose to regard them, although in the year 1863 our
sapient legislators at Washington, knowing about as much
of the geographical formation of that country, or the real
needs of its inhabitants, as a bear knows about Sunday
Schools, dcclared the eastern boundary of the Territory of
Arizona to be an imaginary line, supposed to run somewhere
near the thirty-seconlil degree of longitude west from Wasliington, and giving all that portion of the Territory east of
said line, to New Mexico.
As the Zuni country is situated west of the Rio Grande,
and about three hundred and eighty miles northwest from
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