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.

BURIAL RITES.
now extinct nation sought to utilize the water by constructing
the staircase that enables the thirsty and travel-worn wayfarer to slake his burning thirst with its refreshing coolness.
About eleven o'clock in the morning, the cacique, after
having spent several hours in relating many wonderful facts
concerning the country and its people, announced himself
obliged to return to the pueblo, as one of the old men who
had died the night previous was to be buried that day at
meridian.
Upon my suggesting that I should be pleased to attend
the funeral ceremonies, the old man cordially invited the
(loctor and myself to accompany him and witness the rites,
- an invitation which we were pleased to accept. In a
short time we reached the plaza, just as the funeral procession was entering it.
Four men, bearing upon their shoulders the corpse,
dressed in its usual garb, its hair gayly ornamented with ribbons, preceded the mourners, who slowly and reverentially
followed. Upon reaching the shallow grave, the body
was placed therein without a covering of any kind to protect it from the earth.
In solemn silence each of the mourners approached,
and taking up a handful of earth, cast it upon the body;
then a number of women appeared, their hair flowing loosely
down their backs, and each bearing upon her shoulders a
tenaja filled with water.
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