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.

A BATTLE.
to flight, spreading the alarm throughout the country by
means of great fires, which they kindled on the high mountains (a custom followed by the Indians of Arizona and
New Mexico to this day).
At this point Coronado seems to have tarried for a time,
in order to enable Don Tristan d'Arellano, with the remainder of his army, to overtake him. After waiting in
vain for some weeks, he at last determined to advance to
the walls of Cibo]a without reinforcements.
In his report to the Emperor Charles V., he says: "After we had passed thirty leagues of the most wicked way,
we found fresh rivers and grass like that of Castile, and
many nut-trees, whose leaf differs from that of Spain.
And there was flax, but chiefly seen on the banks of a certain river, which, therefore, we called El Rio del Linlo.* At
last I did arrive at the walls of Cibola, and I sent a messenger thither, who was ill-treated and fired at." Coronado
found that the people of the province were all assembled,
and with "steady attitude" awaited his coming.
He valiantly attacked the city, and after a desperate
fight, in which he was struck by a larg,e stone and unhorsed,
and only saved from bodily harm by the strength of his
armor and the devotedness of his friends, Garcia Lopez
de Cardenas and Horonardo de Alvarado, who shielded
him with their bodies, while some others helped him up,
* Flax River.
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