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 STATES" IN SIGHT.
covered them. Involuntarily we paused and gazed with
rapturous delight upon the glorious sight before us, while
we uttered a prayer of thankfulness at being once more permitted to view traces of civilization. Even Mr. Stewart's face lighted up with an expression of satisfaction, such
as I had never seen upon it before, while Jimmy in his mad
capers seemed almost wild with joy, as he boxed his patient
mule's ears most soundly in his frantic efforts to make him
appreciate the fact that it was the "States that wuz a lyin'
before him, be gorra I "
A ride of ten miles is before us ere we shall reach the
river's bank, and the sun is tinging with its crimson beauty
the neat white houses, purple vineyards, and waving green
corn-fields of Isletta by-the time we reach our old campingground near the town.
Some time after the dim shades of twilight had settled over
the vine-coveredhills and peach-orchards of the town, the
doctor and I discovered Jimmy, who had wandered some
distance below the camp, standing upon the river's bank and
engaged in shaking his brawny fists at its placid bosom,
while he thus apostrophized its yellow, sandy waters: "Cawl
that wather, will yez? It's nothin' but a strake ov saft mud
that's pinethratin' thi landscape; dhirty mud, too, fit only
for thim corn-aitin' Injuns wid their dirthy bazaque, to
dhrink! I hain't afeared ov yez any more; yez scart me
onct "
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