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.

A PRESENTIMENT.
blue-eyed maiden's casa, and, shall I say it, rather envying
him the situation, when I finally fell asleep.
How long I slept, I could not tell. I awoke with a start,
and a strong presentiment that there was something wrong.
What had awakened me so suddenly, or the cause of the
presentiment, I did not know. As I lay for a moment,
endeavoring to account for this singular impression, I distinctly heard the sharp, quick ring of a rifle-shot apparently
on the other side of the pueblo. There was nothing alarming in the sound itself, but the feeling I had experienced on
first awakening still oppressed me, and I anxiously listened
for a repetition of the cause of my alarm. Nothing, however, disturbed the stillness of the glorious night, save the
whip-poor-will's cry, ortheoccasional croak of a frog near
the little stream that ran quietly by our camp.
Suddenly I heard the sound of five or six shots in quick
succession, apparently coming from the direction of the
pueblo; and as I knew that scarcely one in thirty of the
Zunis possessed fire-arms, I was confident that whatever the
occasion, there must, in any event, be a large number gathered together.
I sprang to my feet just in time to see Don Rafael appear
from the other side of the wagon, rifle in hand, and to
notice the dangerous glitter of his wicked black eyes. He
saw me, placed his finger upon his lips, and said, "Histl
Navajoes."
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