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.

ATROCITIES OF THE APACHES.
It seems that Mrs. Paige was at her tather's home, when
a party of Indians made their appearance, and seizing Mrs.
Paige and two sisters, made off with them to the mountains.
Oin their way thither they encountered Paige and three other
Americans, who instantly gave fight, but were finially overcome and massacred by the Indians. Mrs. Paige, who was
sick at the time of her capture, was unable to keep up with
the party, so they knocked her in the head with a club, and
supposing her dead, threw her body over a precipice.
When she recovered her consciousness, she found herself
lodged in a tree which grew out from the side of the
precipice. Disentanglillng herself from this position, she
managed to get down the declivity and away from a trail
which she there found. Here she remained for sixteen days,
living on such roots and berries as she could find, and this,
too, within sight of her father's house.
"It was terrible," she said, "to be dying of hunger and
thirst, and too weak to summon aid or to get to it."
She still lives in Arizona, or did, two years later, when
I saw her,- a stout, hearty woman. Her sisters were never
heard from.
Mrs. Paige's experience is not dissimilar to that of many
others in Arizona; and from it we can judge what the
frontiermen and their families are often obliged to endure.
Leaving old Pennin,gton and the remnant of his family
on the Calabasas, let us return to our camp on the Rio
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