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.

CHAPTER XXX.
HiE first faint streak of
light in the eastern skies
camp-fire Sostill,otion chanced to fall upon a figie breathing bject endowed ure b owed down and de that itjected, hdeas if byed the accumu \~ \\jj lated weight of misfortune
>insgng an d grief, over the smoul sre cdering embers of our dying
camp-fire. So still, motionless, and white did it seem in the
gray light of the morning, that I could scarcely realize it to
be a breathing object endowed with life, hut almost fancied
that it had been fashioned from pure white marble by the
afreets in a single night, and placed in our camp that it mightserve as a crowning, surprise on this, the morning of our
departure from a country which, for so many thousand years,
Nature had reserved as the theatre in which to ere(t the
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