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.

WHAT THE SPANIARD SAID.
will be remembered with execrations in Arizona for the next
century.
In bravery he had no equal, in strategy no superior;
while in vindictiveness, barbarity, and cruelty his name will
ever stand prominent among the long list of Indian chieftains
whose bloody deeds blot the fair page of American history.
Well-authenticated documents in the possession of the
War Department show the number of victims known to have
perished by his individual hand, at the almost incredible
number of a hundred and eight; of whom more than
seventy were white persons, twenty-six Mexicans and halfbreeds, and the remainder members of his own tribe.
The history of the Apache has for centuries been the same
undeviating record of cruelty, rapine, and bloodshed, coupled
with treachery, crafty dealing, and duplicity.
Our qwn government can affirm the truth of the words of
the old Spanish historian, Miguel Venegas, who, in 1758,
said of them, "These Apaches make treaties, but only for
the amusement of breaking them when it suits their convenience."
Baron Humboldt in his "Essays of New Spain," published
in 1803, also adds his testimony regarding them in these
words: "Neither the soldiers stationed in the presidios, nor
the monks posted in the neighboring missions, have been
hitherto able to make the conquest over them."
Indeed, experience appears to have demonstrated that the
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