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.

MR. STEWART.
most singular and stupendous of her many eccentric architectural designs.
Rousing myself by an effort from the dreamy, unconscious
state in which I was lying,, I was soon awarie that it was the
form of Mr. Stewart, sitting bare-headed and in his
shirt-sleeves, and looking, in the pale morning light, far more
wan and sad than ever before, as he vainly strove to obtain
some heat from the warm ashes over which he was bending.
Knowing that exposure to the damp, chill air of the early
morning would be anything but beneficial to him in his
weak physical and mental condition, I quietly rose, and while
replenishing the fire, ventured to suggest that he should try
and obtain a little more rest, as we were intending to start
in a few hours for the Rio Grande, and the fatigue incident
to the journey might prove too much for him without a
proper amount of sleep.
'Journey? journey?" said the old man, looking up in a
bewildered manner; "they have gone on a long journey,
and they sleep, but I can't." Taking from his pocket the
little box he had brought with him from the valley of the
Chiquito, he said, as he opened it, "Can you see there a
wife and eight children? Yet they are all there; to me
they look like desolation."
I endeavored to cheer him by assuring him that he was
among friends who would see that he was comfortably
provided for, and who would not leave him until they
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