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.

ZUNI MODESTY.
their faces all turned towards the north, and indulged in a
series of gyrations, expressive of the contempt they felt
for their foes. This completed, they made the entire circuit
of the plaza four times, after which they approached the
fire which was brightly burning near the centre of the
square.
Here they halted, and the oldest of the warriors took a
position in front of the fire, between the two stakes that
pointed towards the section of the country from which the
enemy came. The rest of the braves, after forming a circle
round the fire, commenced a low, monotonous chant, as the
prelude to a dance, during which they indulged in the most
eccentric and uncouth motions, interspersed with low, gut.
tural exclamations of satisfaction.
The orator all this time was occupying the centre of
this magic circle, narrating, in a loud tone of voice, and
with most extravagant gesticulations, his various feats of
arms.
He told of the number of enemies whose manly forms
had been hurled to the dust by the prowess of his own good
right arm; of their age, wisdom, position, and rank; of
the grief of those who had mourned their loss, and the
sorrow and misery which their tribe had felt at their death.
Then he rehearsed, by pantomime, the attack, the defence,
the struggle, the death, and the final triumph; after which
he burst forth into a sort of chant, or pean of praise to
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