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.

THE MOQUIS, AS A PEOPLE.
happy, industrious, and very hospitable people, and without
doubt are legitimate descendants of the Aztec race.
We gladly made them presents of such articles in our
possession as we thought would please them, besides
giving them a good supply of tobacco, of which they are
extremely fond; and they left us very happy, and feeling
well repaid for the kindness that they had shown to Mr.
Stewart.
The doctor having declared that there was no longer good
reason for delaying our departure from Zuni, and being
myself convinced that I could endure the fatigue of travelling
without ally very great degree of inconvenience, I thought
it a good opportunity to tell the cacique of our determination
to leave Zuni, which I did, informing him that we expected
to start on the following day, in time to reach E1 Moro, where
we intended to make our camp the first night out.
The cacique expressed many regrets at the idea of our
leaving so soon, which I have no doubt were somewhat
mollified by our presenting him with a bale of smoking
tobacco, as well as the large pipe which he had so much
enjoyed during his visits to our camp.
Thanking us many times over, and promising to see us in
the morning before we should start, he left, assuring us that
we could have presented him with nothing that he so much
desired, or would have prized more highly.
As dinner was being served, Jimmy put in an appearance,
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