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 ZUNI HEREAFTER.
the duties for which I created yop have not yet been fulfilled; return, and give to your people the example of a true
life; you will become a great chief in your tribe; you will
be instructed in your duties by the messenger who guards
the entrance to this happy island.
"He will restore to you your body and all that you left in
his cabin. Listen to him, and you shall one day return to
join the spirit that you came to see, and whom you must
leave behind you, for you were only admitted to visit with
her, and to see the glories of this happy land, because you
were faithful to the memory of her whom you so truly loved,
and who is accepted, and will remain here always young,
and happier by far than when I called her from the land of
snow. "
There are many of these legends among the Zunis, which
might be related in this connection, some of them very
beautiful, and all of them abounding in the finest poetical
fancy; but the preceding legend of the "Island of the
Blessed" is sufficient to give the reader an idea of them,
and perhaps a glimpse of the Zunis' hereafter, which to my
own mind suggests much that is pleasant for contemplation,
although many of my readers, I fear, will hardly call it
orthodox.
As I had felt the necessity of returning to my blankets
during the recital of this charming little legend, as soon as
he had finished it the cacique arose and congratulated me
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