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.

FRIENDS.
As he slowly turned away, vainly endeavoring to discover
some memento of the dear ones that might have escaped the
notice of the fiends who had so ruthlessly destroyed his all,
his eyes fell upon a little coop containing some chickens
which he had brought with him from his old Missouri home,
that in some unaccountable manner had been left behind
by the savages. He went to it, and releasing its occupants,
turned them loose into the green valley that they might not
die of starvation and thirst; then gathering up a few of the
fatal arrows that had brought this terrible desolation to him,
he took a last lingering look upon the scene before him, and
reluctantly turned away.
Taking a trail which he supposed would carry him to the
Moquis villages, he left the valley forever.
How he passed the night, or where, or if he slept at all,
he could not tell; but the next morning very early he met
the two friendly Moquis, who gave him the food and water
which he so much needed, and kindly conducted him to the
pueblo of Zuni, a three days' journey, although neither party
could converse save by signs. Upon arriving there he
became almost wild with joy at the sight of Americans, and
fainted as I have related.
The old man's grief while relating his story was heartrending, and during its recital the tears ran down his weatherbeaten cheeks like rain, nor did he make any effort to
restrain them; and so contagious was his sorrow that it was
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