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.

A COMMAND.
ever been good; but they beheld many others, less happy
than themselves, after struggling in vain against the waves,
sink helplessly into the abyss.
Men and women of every rank, age, and condition in life,
embarked; some reached the port without difficulty, others
perished on the way.
At last, they were permitted to set foot upon the shore of
the happy island; they breathed with delight the perfumed
air which strengthened them like celestial food; they walked
together in meadows always green, and filled with flowers
which did not fade when trodden on, but emitted an exquisite
perfume that soothed and delighted the senses.
All nature, in this enchanting island, had been planned by
the Great Spirit, expressly to charm the souls of those who
were to be its inhabitants; cold, heat, tempest, snow, hunger, tears, war, and death were unknown; animals were
hunted in the "happy hunting-grounds" for amusement
only, but were never killed.
Our young warrior would have remained eternally in
this happy land with his betrothed, had not the Master of
Life commanded him to return to his own country, to finish
his mortal course.
He could not see him who spoke, but he heard a voice
like the sweet murmur of the breeze, which said to him:
"Return to the land from whence you came. The time has
not arrived for you to come and dwell in this blessed abode;
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