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.

MO.NTEZUMA'S CHURCH.
captured after a fight of fifty days. It consisted of twelve
towns, the principal of which were Pecos, Querra, Abo, and
Gran Quivera.
Pecos was a fortified town of several stories. It was
built on a high mesa, and overlooked the country around
for many miles. Here stood the large Mexican temple,
Monitezuma's church, which was three stories high, and
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PECOS.
where burned the sacred flame day and night. The Indian
legend is, that Montezuma built this pueblo himself, and
with his own hands placed the sacred fire in the estufa, at
the same time warning his people that when they allowed it
to go out, death would come. Before he left them, he took
a tall tree, and, inverting, it, planted it near the estufa,
saying, if they did not permit the sacred flame to be
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