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 DEATH CR Y
The first one now approached, and as she stooped ovei
the grave, her hair falling loosely about her face and body,
gave to her a singularly weird and picturesque appearance.
Slowly removing the tenaja from her shoulders, and hold
ing it for a moment suspended in the air, she deliberately
turned its contents over the body in the grave, at the same
time giving utterance to the death-cry, a low, plaintive,
wailing moan, which seemed to cause my very flesh to creep,
so terribly distinct was it in unearthly penetration.
The women approached separately, and, as they emptied
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BURIAL SCENE.