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.

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wore neither coat nor vest, while, with a handkerchief
bound tightly around his head, and his shirt covered with
blood, he presented as wild and crazed an appearance as it
is possible to imagine.
The instant he caught si,ght of us he sprang forward, and
grasping our hands, exclaimed, while the tears rolled freely
down his cheeks, "Thank God, friends at last I" almost at
the same instant falling insensible at our feet.
A hasty examination revealed the fact that the man had
fainted from excessive fatigue and hunger, also that he was
suffering, from an ugly arrow-wound in his right shoulder,
which, although from its appearance was several days
old, had not b)een dressed, and must have become very
painful.
While the doctor was administering to the old manl's
needs and comforts, the cacique informed me that the
Moquis had found the man wandering near the Zuni trail
about twenty miles from their villages, and as they could not
understand what he wanted, supposed that he desired to go
to Zuni, consequently, had guided him through.
They had arrived at Zuni during, the morning, and as no
one there could understand who he was, or what he wanted,
they very properly had brought him to our canmp
In the course of half an hour he had so far recovered as to
be able to take some stimtlants, as well as to sparingly partake of a little nourishment, which the doctor administered
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