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.

MY SENSATIONS.
contrary, rejoiced that I was so soon to see with my own
eyes the great mystery concealed behind the veil; that I
was to cross the deep waters and be at rest.
I thought I heard the sound of many voices, in wonderful
harmony, coming from the far-off distance, though from
what direction I could not tell.
My momentum had become so great that I seemed to expe rience much difficulty in breathing; and I remember that I
was trying to explain to my own satisfaction why this should
be so, when the heel of my right boot struck the corner of a
small stone that chanced to be firmly imbedded in the earth
and therefore offered so much resistance to my descent, that
upon striking it I was thrown forward upon my face. This
stone without doubt saved my life.
I have a clear recollection that as I was thrown forward,
I instinctively threw my arms out, whether to act as a
protection to my face, or to enable me to grasp some thing, I do not know; but one of my hands struck against
the sharp edge of something, and I grasped it and clung
to it with a tenacity that a dying man only can under stand.
I have always since that day understood perfectly the
feeling that induces a drowning man to catch at a straw
that he sees floating near him.
How it was that I succeeded in grasping it, or holding it,
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