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.

AN INVDIAN TRADITION.
was one of the "Seven cities of Cibola," into which, with,
out doubt, the Spaniards intruded themselves, gradually
obtaining control of it through the influence which the
Church exercised over the people. There is a traditi(n
among the Indians to the effect that this was once a very
large and wealthy Aztec city, with exceedingly rich mines,
the product of which was carried twice a year to Montezuma,
until the entrance into the city by the Spaniard(s, when it
was shipped direct to old Spain.
At one season- supposed to be about 1680 - when the
people were making extraordinary exertions for transporting
the precious metals, the Apaches attacked them, whereupon
the miners buried their treasure, worth fifty millions, and
left the city together. They were all massacred, except two
who succeeded in escaping to Mexico, where they gave the
particulars of the affair, and solicited aid to return and
recover the treasure. But the distance was so great, and the
Indians so numerous, no one was found willing to run the
risk of so perilous anl undertaking. One of the two afterwards went to New Orleans, then under the dominion of
old Spain, where he raised five hundred men, and started
by way of the Sabine. This expedition was never afterwards heard from.
All attempts to visit these ruins in search of treasure
are thwarted by the Apaches, who punish with death any
intruders. Dr. Wislizenus, in his "Tour through Northern
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