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.

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cestors, of the intrepidity and courage shown by them in
resisting the attacks of the Spaniards as well as of the Apaches and Navajoes; until, warming with the subject, he insisted upon accompanying and showing me the very spot
where the attack had been made by Coronado's army, and
which had so nearly proved fatal to that great chief.
The old man seemed so anxious that we should once more
visit the site of old Zuni, and in his company, that the
doctor and myself, nothing loth to again witness its beauties,
accepted the invitation, only requiring that the visit should
be paid during the afternoon, as on the morrow we had
determined to start for the Rio Grande.
Expressing his regrets at our hasty departure, with
many assurances of his respect and good-will, the old man
left us, promising to call for us later in the afternoon.
Dinner over, we informed Jimmy of our intention, strictly
enjoining upon him the necessity of remaining in camp
during our absence, as well as expressly forbidding him to
receive or entertain any visitors, to each of which injunctions Jimmy promised the most implicit obedience.
It was late in the afternoon when we started, in company
with the cacique, to view the place which three hundred and
twenty years before a little handful of Spaniards had so gallantly assaulted and carried by storm,- the ancient city of
Cibola, where, as the cacique informed us, the Zunis had won
a name for themselves that would never be forgotten.
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