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.

ATTACKED BY APACHES.
decided that it was a useless task, to keep guard while they
should be encamped there. They would therefore abandon
the habit, and sleep soundly at night, the better to enable
them to bear the hardships of the long and desolate route
they must travel before they should reach the golden sands,
where the loved one was anxiously waiting to embrace them.
During the day two of the sons went out hunting, and
returned ere nightfall loaded down with the spoils of the
hunt, and reporting that they had seen no trace of hostile
foes.
The women of the party, having spent the day in washing
and mending the clothing, were all very tired, and immediately after partaking of their supper, retired to rest.
Once during the night Mr. Stewart arose and replenished
the camp-fire, which had been kept burning brightly, as a
precaution against wild beasts; but seeing nor hearing nothing unusual, again retired to rest.
IHow long he had been sleeping he had no means of knowing; but they were all aroused from their sound slumber
by the terrible war-whoop of the Apaches, sounding in
their ears like the death-knell that it proved to be, and
so frightening and intimidating them all, that in their terror, and the confusion that ensued, they knew not what to
do, the screams of the terror-stricken women and children
but adding to the consternation.
Springing to their feet, they grasped their rifles, utterly
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