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.

CHAPTER XIX.
E could have witnessed no
more beautiful or enchant ~~~ 1l 1 Al ~ ing sight than the sunrise
&~~~ _ ^ i which burst upon us ere
we were half a dozen miles
l-';.~~~~ from Acoma. Before us
l -~"-~~~rose the peaks of the
~~~ ~ ASierra Madre one above
- -~-~ the other, each of an en --- __tirely different hue, reminding us of the ladder which Jacob of old saw set up
between the earth and the heaven. or of some vast staircase
constructed by the Afreets, to enable them to ascend to the
very gates of Paradise. The highest of these rugged peaks
were just tinged with the golden beams of the god of day,
while a light purple mist hugged the bosom of the plain so
closely that we seemed to be journeying through a perfectly
motionless sea, whose stillness had never been disturbed by
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