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 ASCENT OF EL MIORO.
made our camp in,lose proximity to the beautiful spring
which I have described in a previous chapter, and beneath
the shade of the giant pines and cedars that for so many
years had sung their mournful requiem for the departed
glories that formerly crowned the summit of this mighty
rock.
Don Rafael immediately started to ascertain if any path
or means of ascent to the top of the rock could be found,
while the doctor and myself prepared for the undertaking,
leaving Jimmy and Mr. Stewart to get supper and protect the camp during our absence. Our guide soon returned,
amid reported that on the eastern side of the rock he had
found a very narrow, but he thought accessible path or es(arpment which led to the top, though he much doubted if
wvith my broken arm I should be able to accomplish it. The
doctor expressed himself favorable to my making the attempt,
however, and we started, notwithstanding the fact that I had
solemnly promised myself at Zuni to abandon all attempts
at ascending until I could learn to descend with some degree
of propriety.
The path was very steep, and exceedingly slippery, but
after half an hour's hard toil we arrived upon the summit of
El Moro. Here our eyes were regaled by a sight which
repaid us for the labor and fatigue of the ascent.
To the north and southeast, stretching into illimitable space,
lay the magnificent Sierra Madre range, its base effectually
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