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.

VINE-CLAD ISLETTA.
one-tenth of the number who inhabited it at the time of
Coronado's conquest.
The Pueblo Indians in the valley of the Rio Grande, who
in 1790 numbered twelve thousand, in 1864 numbered less
than six thousand, and they are steadily decreasing inr
numbers every year. Not many years will elapse before
this industrious, semi-civilized race will become extinc(t,
and the places that have known them for so many hundred
years will know them no more forever.
Bidding good-bye to our friends in Albuqurque, we started
about ten o'clock in the morning for the little village of
Isletta, where we were to cross the Rio Grande, our new
guide riding some distance ahead of us on a tough little
mule that one could almost have carried under his nrm,
had it not bteen for his kicking propensities, which, to our
cost, we found largely developed.
At Isletta we found a very neat, well-to-do village, the
houses being of adobe, and nicely whitewashed, giving to
the place a cheerful, pleasant aspect, rarely found in Mexican towns. They were large and well-constructed; the
acequias nicely kept, and the vineyards yielding abundantly,
all the result of Indian labor.
We were soon encamped in a shady, pleasant spot near
the river-bank, and enjoying a most excellent repast, which
Jimmy, in company with Don Rafael, had provided for
us, not forgetting a generous supply of Isletta wine, a
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