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.

HE RISES TO EXPLAIN:
"Faith, sur, she warked in, I suppose, wid her mother,
to git the partin' gifts."
Here Don Rafael, speaking to me in Spanish, remarked
that he presumed that both the girl and her mother supposed
them to be wedding presents, as it was always customary
among the Zunis for the groom to make, not only the bride
herself presents, but her family also, just before the ceremony; indeed, that was about all there was to the marriage.
This information caused me to ask Jimmy if the girl fully
understood that they were "partin' gifts."
"Indade, sur, I told her so misilf, wid mi own finghers."
I then tried to explain to Jimmy that the articles taken
were worth, at least, fifty dollars, which would be the
amount of two months' wages; and that, undoubtedly,
instead of their being regarded as "partin' gifts," they were
considered wedding presents; therefore, under no consideration, could they be permitted to take them away, as, should
they do so, the cacique would have no option in the matter,
but to force him to marry the girl, in which case we should be
obliged to leave him behind us when we returned, and with out doubt he would share the fate of the Welsh miners,
black Esteva, and many hundred others who had fallen vic tims to laws, as unalterable as those of the Medes and Per sians.
That part of my speech referring to the Medes and Per slans evidently startled Jimmy, who, turning to Dr. Parker,
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