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.

CHAPTER XXIII.
C_/~~:y~o o ~N the beginning, the Zunis,
Ole
the Navajoes, the Pueblos,
and the Americans, all
livTed peacefully togethe r
ofin a hollow po rtio n o f th e
Here they subsisted upon
meat alone, for the Great
Spirit had beneficently
given them all the beasts
of the plain and the birds of the air to do with as seemed
best while they should be confined in the cave.
The walls of the cave were of solid silver, and reflected
the light in such a faint and mysterious manner, that a sort
of dim twilight prevailed a certain portion of the time, which
answered for their day. Among the Zunis living in the
cave was a blind old man, whose sense of hearing was so
wonderfully acute, that one day, as a huge eagle was flap 44 (345)