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.

WHY THE DEAD ARE BURIED.
mighty nation; but one evil day, having become offended
with them for some reason, he went away to the South,
and was absent for a long time; when he returned he
brought with him the Spaniards and fire-arms, as a punishment for their wickedness.
After some time the young man died, and the Spaniards
returned again into Mexico. The body of the young man
was carefully laid away, and two Zinis appointed to watch
it. Three days later, when they went for it, they were
much surprised to find that in some mysterious manner it
had disappeared, nor could it be found.
Many days after, one of the old men of the Zunis visited
the cave in the mountains from which the tribes had originally emerged, and to his astonishment discovered the
dead man sitting upon a block of solid silver shaped like
a throne, engaged in cutting his hair after the fashion of the
Pueblos. Upon speaking to him, the young man entirely
ignored his question, but in a low, melodious tone spoke as
follows: "All those who die must come down here and live with
me in this our first home; for out of the earth they sprang,
and to the earth must they return, where they shall dwell
with me, and I with them, for this is our mother's home."
Since that day the Zunis have always buried their dead
in the ground.
From this simple narration of the Zunis' legend of the
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