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.

GAME.
It was some time after we had forded the Rio de Zuni,
and while we were threading the little canion of black metamorphic rock through which it ran, that we heard the sharp
ring of Don Rafael's rifle, and in a short time we saw him
coming towards us, bearing before him upon his saddle one
of the finest specimens of the wild turkey I ever saw; its
plumage was perfectly magnificent, and its body as fat as the
pine buds could make it. The exclamations of delight at
sight of this beautiful bird caused Jimmy to slip from his
seat in the wagon, and before we were aware of his presence
he was by our side, and saluted us with the remark, by way
of reply to the unqualified admiration with which both the
doctor and myself were regarding it, "It may be a foine
bird fur this counthry; but bedad, in ould Ireland, in thi
County Cork, they have wild tarkeys ez big ez two ov'im.
While Jimmywas engaged in this rhapsody upon the wild
turkeys of "ould Ireland," I dismounted, and telling him to
take charge of my mule, took a seat in the wagon by the side
of Mr. Stewart. Jimmy.was evidently much disconcerted at
this arrangement, and gave me a look so full of sorrow and
disappointment that I was balf tempted to abdicate in his
favor, but consideration for the poor old man at my side decided me to remain where I was, and thus give him a respite
from the volubility of Jimmy's tongue.
It was nearly half-past three o'clock in the afternoon
before we arrived in the shadow of E1 Moro; and here we
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