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.

4FITl.
succeeding chapter, hoping it may prove as entertaining to
the reader as it did to me-listening to it, within sight of the
sacred altars, and upon ground consecrated by the ancestors
of the man who related it, with an earnestness and solemnity
that did not fail to inspire us with a deep sense of the
abiding faith that the narrator placed in its authenticity.
EARTHEN SPOON FROM OLD ZUNI.
Should the reader be tempted to smile at this somewhat
amusing history of the creation of the sun and moon, and of
the manner of embroidering the stars in the firmament, let
him remember that our own religious belief is a simple question of faith, and that the creed of the Zuni is as dear to
hiun as is the Biblical account sacred to Christian people.
344