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.

EAGLES.
to keep an eye on him, I requested Don Rafael to inform
me of the first intimation of a return of Jimmy's weakness,
for I was determined to nip it ill the bud.
The Zunis have a regard, amounting almost to veneration,
for the eagle, which they catch in the mountains when
young, and successfully domesticate. I have seen as many
as fifty at one time on the terraces, basking in the bright
sunshine, and lazily flapping their great wings, or circling
high in air over the town, and uttering their shrill cries.
They serve the purpose of scavengers, keeping the alleys
and plaza very clean, and completely ridding the town of
vermin of every description.
During the day our camp was visited by many of the
people, including not a few of the women, to whom we
made presents of cheap and showy jewelry, which we had
provided ourselves with, before leaving Mesilla.
In less than an hour from the time our visitors first
came into camp, I detected in the hands of one of them,
a bright, fair-haired maiden of some thirty summers, a
rosary and cross that I had frequently seen on Jimmy's
neck, and which I had often heard him say he valued
more than all others of his earthly possessions, because it
had been "b]issd by the Pope." Supposing she had either
found or stolen it, I called Jimmy's attention to the fact.
His reply somewhat disconcerted me, I must confess, for
he said:
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