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.

HOW THE ZUNIS FOUGHT.
friendly pits of which we had been so kindly warned by
the cacique, had been the means of destroying no less than
four good horses, while we found two Navajoes, cold and
stiff in the embrace of death, some little distance in front of
our camp. We took from them their blankets, which were
very fine ones: one of these was given to Don Rafael, and
the other to Jimmy, who in a very short time thereafter was
heard to give a succinct and most thrilling account of "how
the bloody divils attacked him, and he fought disperately for
life, until he jist murthered one ov'em wid his gun. And,"
said he, "I presarved this blankit as a miminto ov the fight,
to show me grandchildren. Shure, isn't it an illigant one,
too?"
In fact, we often thereafter heard Jimmy relate the story
of his desperate hand-to-hand encounter with the Navajoes,
and how valiantly he had fought, single-handed and alone,
"all the rist ov the party bein' aslape at the toime;" and so
frequently did he relate it, that after a while he really came
to believe it himself, and if either of us ventured to contradict it in the slightest particular, Jimmy became indignant, and charged us "wid thryin' to stale his honor."
An hour later, we found that the Zunis had but four
men killed, with two men and one woman (Jimmy's sweetheart) missing, and in addition about seven hundred head
of sheep and some sixty cattle had been stolen.
Four Navajoes and ten horses were found upon the plain
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