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 MOQ UIS CO UNTR Y.
scrape he moved away, as happy as a lark at the idea that
he had at last convinced me of the propriety of his remaining
behind among the Zunis, a proceeding that would have subjected him to no danger in the least, but ourselves to most
se(rious inconvenience.
Scarcely was our breakfast over before the cacique, accompanied by two members of his council, appeared for the purpose of escorting us to the festival, which was to commence
at noon.
Sundry toddies, however, together with a smoke from the
doctor's big pipe, so won upon the old man's good-nature
that, at my request, he seated himself upon one of our campstools, and was soon deeply engaged in giving an account of
the wonders of the Moquis country and its people.
When at the Apache rancheria, I had seriously thought
of paying this interesting and curious people a visit, but had
been prevented from carrying out my design. I was, therefore, very glad of this opportunity to learn something of
them from one who had visited their villages, and whose
knowledge of them was obtained by personal contact.
Taking a sip from his glass, and a few whiffs from the
pipe, the old man commenced, in the low, monotonous tones
that he always assumed in his narrations, a relation of the
facts embodied in the information herein conveyed to the
reader.
The Moquis country lies to the north and west of the San
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