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.

A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
family around him, they were happy in the thought that they
were approaching the end of the long and tedious journey
that was to restore at once a husband, brother, father, and
son to the family circle, and at the same time furnish a home
for him and his in their declining years.
What a sight met his horrified gaze! Upon a large fire
lay the nude bodies of his wife and six children, all scalped,
and fast being reduced to ashes by the flames that their bodies were feeding, and that at the same time were consuming
the woodwork of the wagons, with which the bodies had
been covered, seemingly for the purpose of adding to the
intensity and power of the flames.
The sight completely unmanned him, and throwing himself down upon the blood-stained sward, he watched the fire
feeding upon the bodies of the loved ones, with neither the
ability nor disposition to attempt to stay the angry, hungry
tongues that were fast lapping up, not only his household
gods, but the bone of his bone and the flesh of his flesh,
npon whom the love of a life-time had been so lavishly
bestowed; his only consolation being in the thought that
even that was better than to leave their bodies to be torn
asunder and devoured by wild beasts.
Daylight found him still gazing upon the horrible pyre,
and it was with an almost fiendish delight he saw that a
few charred bones and a little handful of ashes were all that
remained of those dear ones, who, but twelve short hours
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