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.

A STRANGER IN THE DISTANCE.
and galloped rapidly towards us. As he approached, we
had an opportunity to note his personnel.
He was a large, powerfully-built man, about forty years
old; his long black hair hung low upon his broad and massive shoulders; a full, brown beard, keen, black eyes, and an
open, generous countenance, were the distinguishing characteristics of his features. He was dressed in a full suit of
buckskin, gayly fringed and ornamented, which proclaimed
him to be a hunter or scout; around his waist was a United
States cavalry belt, from which protruded the handles of a
pair of navy revolvers, as well as that of a huge huntingknife of the "Jim Bowie" pattern; balanced exactly across
the pommel of his Mexican saddle was a superb Kentucky
rifle, so perfectly poised that it seemed as though a breath of
wind might displace it. He was mounted upon a magnificent black stallion, whose long silky mane and tail at once
attracted Jimmy's attention, and he informed Mr. Stewart
that the horse looked like the horses of "ould Ireland
more'n anything he'd seen since he'd been in thi counthry."
Riding, up to the spot where we were standing, the stranger courteously bade us "Good-evening," and carelessly
throwing one leg over the pommel of his saddle, said, in
answer to the invitation to share our camp, "Wall, yes.
strangers, I'll jest do that, because five is better nor one
under some circumstances, and this is one off'em. I struck
the flesh trail of Apaches down below this mornin', and
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