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.

THE FOUR WHIITE SWANS.
swans, stationed at each of the cardinal points, and
carrying an arrow under each wing.
The swan from the North, upon observing the worm,
immediately came towards it, and, thrusting one of the
arrows through its body, quickly withdrew it. After
examining it very attentively for a while, he exclaimed,
in a loud voice, "This worm is of our race," and then
sailed majestically back to his station in the North.
The poor worm was obliged to undergo this terrible
ordeal three times more, until each one of the four swans
had, in this cruel and barbarous manner, ascertained to
their satisfaction that he belonged to their race.
As soon as the last swan had returned to his station, a
terrible noise was heard, accompanied by such a commotion in the water, that the worm gave himself up for
lost; when suddenly, out of the noise and confusion, four
great aroyas were formed, extending to the north, south,
east, and west, which drained off all the waters; leaving
a hard, pebbly bottom of dry ground.
Upon seeing this, the worm returned to the old men
in the cave, and made report of the wonderful things
he had witnessed, showing his wounded body as a proof
of his statements.
After deliberation, the old men determined to send
the bear up, and he was forthwith dispatched, with orders
to enlarge the crevice and force his way through to the
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