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.

EL MO.R O.
We rallied Jimmy about permitting Don Rafael to remove
the skin from his Acoma lady-love, and his reply was quite
worthy of the man: "It's only turnin' the tables, it is; for if I'd married her,
she'd a taken the hide off me intirely, surr."
It was so late before we were ready to resume our journey, that we decided not to attempt to make Zuni until
the following day; but to drive only as far as E1 Moro
Valley, where stands the celebrated "Inscription Rock,"
mentioned in a preceding chapter of this work.
A drive of a few hours on a descending grade served to
bring us to this point. We found a most delightful camping-ground, by the side of a spring of water which bubbled
up from beneath the very corner of this rock, upon which
are inscribed some of the most important events in the history of this wonderful country.
Reclining upon the luxuriant carpet of verdure which
Nature had spread on every side, watching the dying, rays
of the sun as they gilded the stately towers of E1 Moro, we
could but speculate concerning the fate of those gallant
cavaliers, who, hundreds of years before, had placed their
names upon the smooth, polished surface of this remarkable rock. Who could recount the heroic deeds of "Don
Joseph De Bazemzalles," who in "1526," three hundred
and forty-seven years ago, inscribed his name on the lower
left-hand corner of El Moro? Whence came he, and what
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