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 SUN-STROKE.
dolefully bewailing the day that "he'd ivir consintid to jine
in an expidition to attimpt to rejuce the Navajoes," loudly
complaining that the fatigue and warm weather were "anuf
ter kill a mule," and saying "that he should have remained
wi(l us all the toime, hadn't he bin complately prosthrated
by the ifficts of a sun-sthroke," from which, however, he
had then most happily recovered, if we might be allowed
to form an opinion from the facility he displayed in concealiiig the provisions spread before him.
The sun was fast sinking in the western skies when
Don Rafael again resaddled our horses, and we once more
resumed the journey towards our camp, pushing on at a
rate of speed pronounced by Jimmy to be "most fataygin,"
and who begged in piteous tones to be "lift behind." notwithstanding the fact that he managed to keep right
in front all the time.
The moon had risen high in the heavens when we espied
our little camp, nestled so quietly beneath its bright beams,
under the grim, brown walls of Zuni; and it was a sight
that filled my heart with gladness, while Jimmy asserted
that "it wuz dearer to his eyes than would have bin ould
Father O'Brady, his own parish praste."
My arm was dressed by the doctor, and I was soon in my
blankets; nor did I open my eyes again until the next
noon, when the doctor awakened me to say that the Zunis
had arrived with the recaptured stock.
392
v