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.

RECORDS OF THE PAST.
was his fate? And what was the name of him who, as the
iecord says, "passed by the place with dispatches on the
16th of April, 1606"? Who could tell us anything concerning the history of "Juan Gonzales," who in'p1629"
engraved his name on these tables of stone? Or that of "Dr.
Don Martini de Cochea, Bishop of Durango, who, on the
28th day of September, 1736, arrived at this place?" What
was his mission in these wilds of the West? For how many
years had this old rock thus stood, looking calmly down
upon the beautiful valley with its ever-changing scenes?
But there was no one to answer these questions and
the thousand others which suggested themselves to our
minds as we lay beneath the black shadows of El Moro.
If the old rock could have spoken, what marvellous tales
might it not have unfolded! But it stood grim and silent,
vouchsafing no reply -a very Sphinx of the desert.
When at length the red and golden tints had faded from
the sky, and the moon and stars appeared "in the infinite
meadows of heaven," casting a pale, ghastly light over all
things, we could almost fancy we beheld the gay and glitterin g cavalcade of "Don Diego de Bargas," with its
richly caparisoned steeds and fluttering pennons, as it
"passed by in 1692 on its way to conquer Santa Fd for the
royal crown, at their own cost." Indeed, we could almost
see the stalwart, well-knit form of Don Diego himself, as
he quaffed a goblet of water from the spring which mur 39
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