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 PURSUIT.
examining its double barrel, "ud kill a thousin ov thim
divils at one shot."
It was about nine o'clock when we left the pueblo, after
the grand ceremony of invocation by the high-priest and his
assistants; and as we started out, the cacique gravely assured
me that we should return in all safety, as the spirit which
had been invoked would effectually protect us.
Leaving the town, we followed a trail that led towards
the northwest, in which direction Don Rafael informed me
we should probably come upon that portion of the Navajoe
country into which, without doubt, the thieving rascals had
driven the stock captured the night before.
We rode swiftly along, as our animals were all fresh; and
the Zunis, with their bright paint, and gayly-colored ribbons
fluttering in the breeze, gave to our cavalcade a truly picturesque and brilliant appearance.
Occasionally a brave, desirous of showing the superior
mettle of his charger, or, perchance, his own elegant horsemanship, with a shout would start his horse into a run, and,
leaving the trail, dash wildly over the plain, to be followed
by half a score of others, yelling like madmen, or now and
then giving utterance to a fearful war-whoop, that seemed to
act as an inspiration to both men and animals.
As we galloped in single file over the beautiful green
plain, which extended for miles in all directions, with groves
of huge pines and cedars clustered here and there over its
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