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.

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tlc wilderness through which he must pass his only purveyor. Persevering in the face of the most trying difficulties, he succeeded in reaching a river,- supposed to be
the Santa Cruz, in what is now the province of Sonora.
He followed the course of this river until he reached its
junction with the Gila. He then descended the Gila,
examining the country as well as he could on his way.
Crossing the Gila near its mouth, he retraced his steps,
and ascended the river on the north hank, passing through
a country the most wonderful ever seen by the eye of
man.
He found it inhabited by a people who were kind, generouiis, and hospitable in the extreme, the better class living in
houses built of adobes, while the more common people built
their houses of sticks set in the ground, and bound togethe,
at the top by ropes made from the fibrous leaf of the mag
uey, and thatched with bundles of long grass.
These houses, he declares, were well-constructed and com
fortable. Their towns and villages he describes as situated
upon the banks of the streams, and generally built upoL
mesas, and well adapted for defence. He represents the
population as vast, the settled portion of the country extend
ing from river to river; the inhabitants frugal, industrious
~tnd contented. They manufactured a kind of cotton clotl
from the leaf of the maguey, which grew in great profusion
all over the country. He found them very expert in making
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