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.

294 A NEW DISEASE ON THE PLAINS.
of Jimmy, who lay at a little distance from Dr. Parker
and myself. Upon speaking to him, he crawled slowly from
his blankets and came towards me, his face presenting the
most perfect picture of abject misery that I had ever seen.
I was considerably surprised at this new and inexplicable
phase of Jimmy's character, as the reader may well imagine.
"What is the matter, Jimmy? Are you sick?" I kindly
asked.
"Indade an' I am, juge," was the plaintive reply.
"Where do you feel sick, Jimmy?" I inquired.
"It's here, surr," he said, placing his brawny hand on his
heart; "and sick I am, bedad, at losin' the chance I
have. "
Even after this explanation I failed to understand the
cause of Jimmy's illness; and the sight of two big drops
slowly stealing down the poor fellow's weather-beaten cheeks
so enlisted my sympathy and commiseration that I aroused
Dr. Parker, and urged him to immediate action in Jimmy's
behalf. After what seemed to me a very hasty and insufficient examination, he declared that nothing whatever was
the matter with the son of Erin, and coolly turned over in
his blankets and composed himself to sleep, to my great
disgust at his want of feeling.
After plying Jimmy with questions for some time, I
became convinced that he was suffering from an acute
attack of a disease very common in the East, and but