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.

THE START FOR ZUNI.
MNesilla, we determined to ascend the valley of that river,
and start upon the expedition either from the town of
Albuquerque, or from Santa Fd, as we should find most
convenient.
Our government had so recently whipped the Navajoes
into a peace, that we anticipated no trouble from them;
and the other tribes residing in the country were generally Pueblo Indians, and more disposed to cultivate the
soil than take to the war-path; therefore the journiey
)romised to be a pleasant and peaceable one, unless by
accident we should encounter some marauding band of
Apaches.
After recruiting our animals, and laying in a goodly
quantity of camp-stores from the extensive stock of our
friends Grandjeanl and Moran in La Mesilla, and from
Hayward and McGrotys at Fort Fillmore, Dr. Parker and
myself, with Jimmy as cook, groom, and general factotum,
turned our backs upon Mesilla, bound for Albuquerque, two
hundred and forty miles distant, from which point we expected to penetrate into the "Zuni country," where we
should find the celebrated city of Cibola, which with its
six sister cities, De Niza visited as early as 1539, and
which Coronado conquered in 1540. Their reports atre
the first really authentic history of the kingdom, although as
early as 1526, nearly a hundred years before the landing of
the Pilgrim Fathers, one Don Joseph de Bazemzalles crossed
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