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.

JIMMMY ASTONISHED.
well as some very fine grapes sent us by Don Jesus
Barela.
In talking over the matter with Dr. Parker, we concluded
that our first objective points should be Laguna and Acoma,
and that from these pueblos our course should be for Zuni
by the most direct and easily travelled route. After making
these points we should be guided by circumstance, having
supplies sufficient to last fifty days.
We retired to rest quite early, as we naturally expected
some delay in fording the river at this place, which was
about three hundred feet wide, though not more than three
or four feet deep.
The Rio Grande is one of the most uncertain streams in
the known world, owing to the peculiar nature of the soil
through which it runs. Its bottom is nothing less than a
mass of quicksand; and as we had been informed that the
ford here was hazardous and very uncertain, it was with no
enviable feeling that we looked at the muddy, turbid water,
and realized the difficulties we might encounter in getting
our mules tnd heavily-laden wagon safely across the stream
and up the steep bank on the opposite side.
Early in the morning we were awakened by the loud
cries of Jimmy, who was exclaiming in a loud tone of voice
that "millions wouldn't timpt him to take another stip in
such a damned counthry ez this; for if'twasn't thim lloody
[njuns'twas somethin' ilse, and he was goin' home imma
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