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.

AN INVITATION.
defend (?) any woman who might be in his charge from danger threatened by reason of Navajoe prowlers.
Breakfast was hardly dispatched, before Doctor Parker,
who had seated himself, pipe in hand, by my side, discovered the cacique approaching, with the evident purpose of
paying me his promised visit.
The doctor filled a pipe for the old man, who was no
sooner seated, than he informed us, with an eagerness
almost child-like in its simple earnestness, that on the morrow the Zunis were to celebrate the "Maize," or "Greencorn dance," and that it would make him "much happy"
if we would do him the honor to be present and witness it.
As this dance is one of the few Montezuma festivals still
celebrated by these Indians, and is regarded by them with
the greatest veneration, the doctor and myself determined
to attend, and see this most curious and beautiful ceremony.
I immediately signified my thanks for the invitation, and
promised, if able to walk to the pueblo, to be present.
As the old man seemed in quite a loquacious mood, a
few questions drew from him much interesting information
concerning Montezuma and the people of the Moquis
country, as well as a description of some of the extensive
and singular ruins found in the Navajoe country, some
ninety or a hundred miles north of Zuni, lying upon the
Rio de Chelly, and in the Caiion de Chaco, which are the
most northern of any in New Mexico.
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