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.

FORBIDDING THE BANS.
"Shure, sur, I couldn't tell you."
"Yes, you can, Jimmy; don't prevaricate."
"Yis, sir," said Jimmy; "that's the name, I think.
And it's engaged we've bin since yisterday." And stretching out his great brown hand, on the little finger of which
I recognized one of the identical brass rings that we had
distributed among the women, he exclaimed,- with an air
that seemed to say, "This settles it,"-"Aud there's my
bethrothel rhing, the plidge of me affictions."
Turning to him, I angrily exclaimed, "Now, Jimmy, I'll
have io more of this nonsense! There's no such thing as
an engagement. Of course you can't marry a Zuni woman,
for you've drunk from the Sacred Spring."
"What the divil hez that got to do wid it?"
"Only this, that you are liable to be taken by the cacique,
any moment, and executed for the crime of drinking holy
water; besides, Jimmy, an engagement to a woman whose
name you don't even know, is simply ridiculous."
"Shure, sir, you spoke it yoursilf." And the big tears
fairly chased one another down his cheeks, until, taking pity
on him, I told him to go to bed, and that we would finish
the conversation another time.
After he had left us, Dr. Parker and myself concluded
that it would be best for us to see the cacique, and ascertain
if Jimmy's visits to the pueblo could not be prevented.
With this object in view we started for the town, a-id
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