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.

L OSS OF A COMRADE.
too soon. One of the shower of arrows sent whizzing after
us, struck poor Laws in the back, and he fell from his
saddle dead, his riderless animal galloping frantically over
the plain.
To reach the nearest knoll, out of range of the arrows
of the Apaches, was but the work of an instant. Here
we halted, determined to sell our lives as dearly as
possible.
We waited an hour, revolvers in hand, for the appearance
of the Indians, but they did not come. We then cautiously
proceeded to remove the dead body of our companion,
which still lay where it had fallen; and, taking it on ouI
saddles before us, sadly rode to the highest eminence we
could find in the vicinity, and there encamped. When
night had veiled the earth in its shadows, by the soft light
of the moon we hastily scooped a shallow grave with such
implements as were at hand, and deposited within its narrow walls the body of our comrade.
Lest the fresh earth should disclose the location of the
grave to those human hyenas, whose rapacity knows no
bounds, we coralled our animals above the spot, that their
uneasy footsteps through the night might obliterate all
traces of our sad labor.
Regretfully we turned away from the lonely resting-place
of our friend; and as we wrapped ourselves in our blankets,
while Dr. Steck kept guard, I shall never forget the im
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