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.

FORM OF WORSHIP.
furnishing the natives with pins, needles, paper, rope, cloth,
thatch for their dwellings, meat, and drink.*
Father Kino describes their flocks and herds as immense,
altliough they had no horses or draught cattle, and says
they understood mining to some extent,-not mere surface
labor, but extracting the ore from veins which they opened
in the solid rock, unearthing vast quantities of gold and
silver, which they seemed to value only as it contributed to
their comfort when made into articles of use or ornament.
Of their religion, he says they worshipped the sun as
God; and upon all their altars kept a flame burning, which
was never permitted to become extinguished, the simplehearted people believing that to this fact they were indebted
for the comfort and happiness they enjoyed as a nation.
In short, he found them resembling, ill personal appearance and general characteristics, the Aztecs described by
Gomara and Diaz, only differing from them ill their more
peaceful pursuits and disinclination for warlike strife. In
his travels Father Kinlo passed to the south of the Fire
Mountain,t through a portion of the Black Forest, to the
northeast, where, after many weary days of toil and travel,
he struck the head waters of the Mimbres. This stream he
* To this day the native Mexicans in Arizona, as well as in Mexico, use
this plant for nearly, if not quite, all the productions obtained from it by the
Aztecs.
+ Supposed to be the San Francisco Mountain.
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