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.

I AM WOUNDED.
No sooner said than done; we hastily sought shelter behind
it, and waited, revolvers in hand, the coming of the foe.
We saw them approaching as rapidly as their splendid
horses could bear them, each second bringing them more
plainly and distinctly into view; when suddenly the foremost one, who was bestriding a magnificent gray horse,
disappeared from our view like a flash, and then another
and another.
"It's them pits," said Don Rafael, as he slowly raised his
rifle to his shoulder. At this moment they again uttered
their terrible war-whoop, completely drowning, not only
Don Rafael's voice, but the sound of his rifle, as well as that
of my own, and causing me, I am quite sure, to send my
first shot directly into the face of the moon, that was looking so calmly down upon us, instead of into the faces of the
Navajoes, for whom it was intended.
They were so near now that we could plainly hear the zip
of their arrows as they flew around us on all sides; in return
for which we gave them, chamber after chamber, the contents of our revolvers, to which compliment they replied
by terrific yells and a perfect shower of arrows.
I felt for an instant a sharp, burning sensation in my left
arm, just above the elbow; and, glancing down, discovered
an arrow sticking in my shirt-sleeve, which I pulled out and
threw upon the ground, never dreaming that I had beeii
wounded.
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