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.

THE JIASTER OF LIFE.
he saw were only images, shadows of the material world, and
that he was in the abode of spirits.
After having walked nearly a whole day in this beautiful land of enchantment, he arrived upon the bank of an
immense lake, in the midst of which he saw the "Island of
the Blessed."
A canoe, made of a single white stone, and as brilliant as
crystal, was moored to the shore. He threw himself into it,
and seizing the oars, which were also of fine crystallized
stone, began rowing towards the Island. Scarcely had he left
the shore, when, to his joy, he saw his beautiful young bride,
whom he had come so far to find, enter a barque like his
own, imitate all his movements, and row by the side of the
one in which he was floating.
As they advanced, the waves arose threatening and foaming, as if they desired to swallow up the two voyagers in
their angry embraces; then they would recede to again form
anew, as menacing as before.
The two lovers passed through continual alternations of
hope and fear, their terror being greatly increased by seeing
through the transparent water, that the bottom of the lake
was strewn with the bones of the multitudes that had been
shipwrecked while attempting the same voyage that they
were then taking.
The Master of Life had, however, decreed that they should
arrive safely, because the thoughts and actions of both had
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