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.

CONGRA TULA TION'S.
we had won; so we retired to camp, and to bed. I lay for
more than an hour listening to the sound of the tombe, accompanied by the clear, ringing voices of the braves as they
recounted their exploits, until its monotony lulled me in" -
a sound slumber, from which I did not awake until the day
was far advanced.
Breakfast over, the doctor and myself, after lighting our
pipes, talked over the events of the past few days, and decided that they afforded reason for congratulation in that, at'
least, we had effectually gotten rid of Jimmy's Zuni sweetheart, and thus escaped the annoyances and vexations that
might have ensued had she remained in the peublo. Our
experience at both Acoma and Zuni had convinced us that it
would have been a difficult task to prevent Jimmy, with his
lamentable susceptibility, from contracting a "mathrimoniahl alliance," had not the girl so providentially been removed from our immediate vicinity; and as we were to start
on our return to the Rio Grande the following morning,
provided the Zunis should get back with our rifles, we did
not anticipate that Jimmy, in the short time that remained
of our stay, would discover any new object upon which to
lavish the "wilth of his affictions," and there was no probability that Don Santiago would succeed in recapturing the
"gurl," who by this time was far in the interior of the
Navajoe country.
No one having intimated to us that any suspicion rested
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