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.

NIZA SEES CIBOLA.
builded in order and all made of stone, with divers stories
and flat roofs."
Htaving ascertained these facts, and seen the city with his
own eyes, Father Niza at once retraced his steps; and after
many days' journey, during which he experienced nothing
but kindness from the hands of the Indians, he finally
reached the province of Culican, where he straightway made
report to the governor of all the strange things he had seen.
The Abbe Em Domenech, in his work on the deserts of North
America, says, in speaking of Father Niza's journey: "The information given by Father Marcos is so vague that
it is scarcely possible to state precisely the route he followed, or to indicate the geographical position of the
countries through which he passed.
'There would seem to be, however, good authority for
supposing that his journey was made through the valley of
the Gila, instead of the Rio Verde country; across the
Colorado Chiquito, thence through the Mogollon Mountains,
and across the great plateau to the western slope of the
Sierra Madre."
That he visited the Casas Grandes, already described in
a preceding chapter, there is no doubt, as it is most
probable that they would be included in that portion
of country called the kingdom of Mlarata. Niza says in his
report before referred to, "And these people of Marata
have, and do, wage war with the lord of the seven cities,
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