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.

G UA YA V. ES.
earthen dish or bottle, filled with the thin paste made of
meal ground from corn.
As the guayave is an article of food very much liked
by all the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, and also one
that Americans become very fond of after a short sojourn
in the country, let me inform the reader how it is made
and what it is like.
The woman, after selecting a smooth, flat stone, laid it
carefully upon our camp-fire, so that it would gradually
heat through.
After it was hot, she knelt beside it, and pouring upon
it a little of the paste from the bottle, with the palm of
her hand she smoothly spread it over the surface of the
stone, until it was very thinly and evenly distributed; then
she peeled it off from the stone, and made it into a roll
resembling a large cigar, when it was ready to be eaten.
It is a very palatable article of food, not unlike the
(ortilla (described in a previous chapter) in its taste, as
well as the general manner of preparation.
We made our supper, in part, of guayaves that night,
much to the satisfaction of Jimmy, who pronounced both
cook and garvies "illigant."
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