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.

WHO SPOILT THE BROIDERY?
oldest Zunis in the tribe, who have been carrying them ever
since; and as the earth grows each year, they are obliged
to remove with them farther back so that they may not
scorch its surface. At the time of their construction, the
sun and moon were made precisely alike, but the man who
carries the moon has got so far from the surface of the
earth that we no longer feel the heat from that orb.
In the mean time, the Pueblos had been most vigorously
at work manufacturing stars, and had a large number ready
for broidering in the firmament.
This they had commenced to do in the most beautiful manner, so as to represent bears, fishes, women, etc.; and while
enza-ed in the pleasant occupation, a coyote chanced to
pass by, and seeing the great lot of stars, and the delicacy
of the operation of embroidering them, said, "What's the
use of taking so much trouble with these stars? Stick'eta
in anywhere." And, suiting the action to the word, he
bounded upon the pile, and in an instant had scattered
them promiscuously all over the face of the heavens. This
is the reason why we have so few constellations, and why
the stars are scattered in so singular and wonderful a manner over the firmament, instead of having the beautiful
images that the Pueblos originally intended.
Thus is here given, in a most satisfactory and comprehensive manner, the solution of the problem that, I venture
to say, has puzzled quite as many of the leading astrono
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