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.

HE HEARS OF CIBOLA.
These the Indians provided for him all the way across
the desert, which was four days' journey.
Then he came to a valley "inhabited by a goodly people.
It was well watered and like a garden, abounding in
victuals sufficient to feed about three thousand horsemen."
Through this valley he travelled five days. Here, too, he
found a man born in Cibola, having escaped from the governor-lieutenant of the same. "For," he says, "the lord
of the seven cities liveth and abideth in one of these towns
called Ahacus, and in the rest he appointeth lieutenants
under him."
This townsman of Cibola was a white man, of good complexion, well advanced in years, and of far greater intellect
than the inhabitants of this valley or the others left behind.
He says: "Cibola is a.great city, inhabited by a great
store of people, and having many streets and market-places.
In some parts of the city are certain great houses, five
stories high, wherein the chief of the city do assemble
themselves on certain days of the year. The houses are of
lime and stone, the gates and small pillars of the principal
houses are of turquoises, and all the vessels wherein they
are served are of gold. The other six cities are like unto
this, and Ahacus is the chiefest of them all.
'"T the southwest is a kingdom called Marata, where there
be great cities builded of houses of stone, with many lifts
Likewise the kingdom of Totonteac lieth to the west, a very
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