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.

WONDEPtFUL WATER-TANKS.
ing rain-water. Below each of these large tanks are smaller
ones similarly constructed, and connected with those above
by means of a pipe, through which water is conducted for
the use of their stock. This stock consists entirely of
sheep and goats, which are driven each day to pasture, the
nearest grass being six miles away.
The population of the Moquis villages numbers, it is supposed, something over six thousand. Their government is
an hereditary one, not necessarily descending from father to
sonIL, however, but any blood relation may be selected as determined by the choice of the people.
Of their religious belief, the cacique knew but little. They
believed ill a great father who dwelt where the sun rises,
and of a great mother who lived where the sun sets. She
peopled the earth by bringing from her own home nine
things, from which sprang the different races of men. First,
the deer race; second, the sand race; third, the water race;
fourth, the bear race; fifth, the hare race; sixth, the prairiewolf race; seventh, the rattlesnake race; eighth, the tobaccoplant race; and ninth, the reed-grass race. That after death,
they assumed the form from which they originally sprang;
thus aiding to form anew the decaying elements 6f the
earth.
They never plough or irrigate their lands, depending entirely upon the natural fall of rain; their only agricultural
implement is a kind of hoe; with this they plant corn,
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