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 XX.
UR camp at the Carizo Springs was
destined to be neither an agreeable
nor a profitable one, as the reader
will readily understand, when I
relate the adventures of the night.
_ After we had partaken Cf our
I:~ ~~'~~supper, and had seen our animals
safely picketed where they could obtain good grass, we
seated ourselves around the smouldering camp-fire, and,
smoking our pipes, enjoyed the calm beauty of the night.
The moonbeams silvered with mellow light each rug,gel
rock, each overhanging cliff, each bristling yucca, until
it required no great stretch of the imagination to fancy
that we were really standing on one of those fabled mountains of silver, the expectation of finding which had led
the bold adventurers of the fifteenth century into such
incredible toils and hardships.
I retired to rest at an early hour, and was soon in the
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