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.

FOUNDATION OF Z 3NI.
"Binding their victims hand and foot, they carried them
to the edge of the bluff, and hurled them into the seething
waters below.
"II) a short time the flood was assuaged, having reached
the line, at this day distinctly visible, about thirty feet
below the top of the mesa.
"The small remnant of the people of Zuni, who had sought
and( found a refuge on the summit of the mesa, were thus
saved; and they here built the town, the ruins of which
were around us, and erected the two monuments before
spoken of, to mark the spot where the beautiful victims
were made an offering to appease the wrath of the Great
Spirit, that the remembrance of this terrible catastrophe
might be perpetuated to the end of all time."
These pillars, although bearing a very strange and most
remarkable resemblance to human figures, are, without
doubt, the work of Nature; yet they are greatly venerated
by every Zuni.
We now started to visit the cedar grove, some little distance from the spot where we had been standing.
As we drew near the place that contains the sacred altars
where many of the religious rites and ceremonies of the
Zunis are celebrated, a singular appearance of mingled
veneration and fear came over the countenance of the old
councillor who accompanied us; and as he approached the(
spot with hesitating footsteps, he took from a small bag, that
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