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.

JIMMY ALARMED.
jately, this blissed minnit," at the same time calling loudly
upon the "howly saints for protiction." It was some time
before we could ascertain the cause of Jimmy's great excitement, for he certainly talked very unintelligibly. Finally,
however, he became sufficiently calm to ask, "An whare's
the river?" Upon our pointilig in the direction in which
it was supposed to be, Jimmy at once interrupted us with,
"That's jist it; the d-d thing is behind us; and how the
divil did it git there, is what I want to know."
Sure enough the river was flowing between us and Isletta,
scarce half a mile distant, as calmly and quietly as though
it had occupied its new bed for the past hundred years. It
was with difficulty that we could convince ourselves that
such was really the fact, so silently had Nature effected this
wonderful change. The only damage done, was the destruction of a portion of Don Jesus Barela's vineyard, and a fine
field of Indian corn.
The banks of the Rio Grande being of an exceedingly
friable nature, and very sandy, offer but slight resistance to
any freak the river may take. Sometimes it destroys
whole villages, demolishing corrals, hacie?tdas, ranches, in
fact, anything that happens to be in its way when it starts
on its "bender,"-now covering fields of rich alluvial soil
with sand and rubbish, again tearing its way through a
forest of tall cotton-woods and sycamores, or, selecting a
piece of low, rich bottom-land, it takes from one man only
to (ive to another.
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