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.

NVA VAJOE TACTICS.
The Navajoes kept riding round as though following a
circle, each turn bringing them nearer to us. When directly
opposite the camp, they would discharge their arrows at
us, and then gallop to a place of safety, out of the range of
our revolvers,- returning in a moment, and bending low in
their saddles, to send another volley at us.
These tactics were kept up some time, probably as
much for the purpose of ascertaining our strength, as to
draw our fire; but under Don Rafael's directions, our fire
was a most judicious one, and so well calculated to deceive
them, that they fairly concluded our numerical force to be
much larger than it really was, therefore beat a retreat,
leaving us masters of the situation. I took particular
notice that after we had ascertained this to be the case
beyond all question, neither of us manifested any desire to
follow them.
Indeed, I am confident that if the doctor or Don Rafael
had made a suggestion to that effect, I should not have
assented to it; but later in the day I had the satisfaction
of knowing that there was not the least danger of such a
proposition emanating from either of them, for they assured
me that had I made it, they would have considered it both
unwise and improper.
Once satisfied that our midnight visitors had departed,
we beganl an inquiry into the result of the attack. Briefly,
this was the situation:
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