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.

FATHER MIRCO DE NIZA.
"Here passed General Don Diego de Baragas, to conquer
Sante Fe for the Royal Crown, New Mexico, at his own
cost, in the year 1692."
The only two inscriptions to be found in English, ale
these:
"O. R., March 19, 1836." The other'that of Lieutenant
Simpson himself, bearing date September 18, 1849.
Whatever became of Bazemzalles and his band of adventurers, if he had any, none can tell. How they perished,
or where their bones lie bleaching, are alike unknown.
The simple. inscription upon the side of "El Moro"
seems to be the only record of his journeyings extant.
Marco de Niza, a Franciscan monk before referred to,
gives us the first information concerning this country and
its people.
On the 7th of March, 1539, he was dispatched by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, a nobleman of Salamanca, and
governor of the province, "to descry the country." He
took with him the friar Honoratus, and an Arabian negoro,
called Esteva. Starting from Petatlan, a town of Culican,- so called because its inhabitants lived in houses built
of matted rushes, called petates,- he went "following
as the Holy Ghost did lead," passing through "great
deserts, and meeting Indians who marvelled to see him,
having no knowledge of any Christians, or even of any
Indians on the other side of the desert."
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