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 XXXI.
HE next morning, just as
as:t \ the glorious beams of the
rising sun were gilding the
lofty turrets of El Moro,
we resumed our journey
~ ~ 1/ ~~~~0Th tiful valley, we commenced
the slow and laborious as cent of the western slope
of the Sierra Madre range. For miles our road lay through
a thick growth of stunted pines and cedars, until we finally
reached the summit of the mountain range. Here we could
but pause for a few minutes, to view the magnificent prospect
presented from the lofty elevation of the Navajoe Pass; and
then, urging our animals rapidly forward, we commenced
the descent of the eastern slope, in hopes to reach the cool,
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