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 MOON AND STARS?
To the Zunis was allotted the building of the heavens,
and placing therein the moon, which they were also to
construct; while the Pueblos contracted to supply the stars,
and broider them in the firmament. The Americans, on
account of their hasty departure, and the evident desire manifested by them to escape the toil and labor necessarily
following in such a work of creation and organization,
were assigned no task, the old men declaring they should
have no hand in the construction or management. Thus
it came to pass that the Americans lost much prestige
at the outset.
The heavens being completed, they were at once elevated
to their place, where, owing to the pressure of the ascending
air from the earth, they have ever since remained.
The Navajoes met with a great many difficulties in the
completion of their work, and were finally obliged to call
to their assistance the Zunis, who, with a spirit of liberality quite wonderful, when the fact of the selfishness of the
Navajoes is taken into consideration, cheerfully acceded
to their request, and at once sent a deputation of their
most skilled workmen to aid in completing and elevating
to its place the great luminary that shines for all.
How they accomplished their work, or what means were
used to cause it to so admirably dispense its light and heat,
is a subject that our informant did not enlighten us upon.
The sun and mnoon were both placed in charge of the two
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