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.

ITS PEOPLE AND HOUSES.
Francisco Mountain, and not very far from the Colorado
Chiquito. It is an arid, barren country, deeply eroded by
floods, and largely formed of steep mesas, volcanic peaks,
and rocky canons, with a few fertile valleys interspersed
among them.
Their villages, of which there are seven, are built upon
the very edge of some of the steepest of these rocky mesas,
in so singular a manner that, at a little distance, it is impossible for a stranger to distinguish them from the rocks, of
which they appear to form t part. The first three of these
are built upon a bluff of solid rook, about three hundred feet
high and one hundred and fifty feet in width, and arc
reached by steep paths and by steps cut into the rock in
such a manner that they can only be approached by persons
on foot.
The houses are built of stone, are generally two stories
high, and are laid in a mortar made of mud which is brought
from the valleys below upon the backs of men, there being
no soil whatever upon the rock. In form they are similar
to those of Zuni, entrance to them being by ladders, as there
are neither doors nor windows in the lower stories.
The first and largest town is called Harro, and contains
a population of about two thousand persons. All the towns
or villages have large water-tanks, or reservoirs, constructed
upon the rock, lined with masonry; they are generally five
or six feet in depth, and are used for collecting and hold
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