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 NURISE.
She at once commenced bathiing my body with a lotion
prepared from herbs, which seemed to give me almost
instant relief. She was remarkably neat and cleanly in her
personal appearance, and the gay-colored ribbons with which
her head was adorned, together with a bright scarlet jacket,
gave to her quite a coquettish air.
Later in the day, when the cacique came to see me, I was
sufficiently free from pain to be able to sit up and converse
with him; and for an hour or more I was agreeably entertained by the many interesting facts concerning the Zunis,
their legends and traditions, as well as those relating to the
Moquis country, which he never tired of telling. I was especially glad to hear him discourse at some length of the
Moquis, for the inaccessibility of that country had compelled
us to forego an intended visit there.
Among the many legends that he related was one regarding the future state, which for poetical imagery I have
rarely heard equalled. A similar legend prevails among,
the more northern tribes on the Pacific coast, which has
been so frequently referred to by different writers as one
of the most beautiful of the many traditions extant
among them, that I propose to give it substantially as I
find it related by the Abbe Domenech, well satisfied that
it will lose none of its beauty or force when clothed in his
language.
A young Zuni huntsman, distinguished for his manly
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