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.

JIM DAVIS.
GraDde, where we shall remain only long enough to give
our overburdened animals time to recruit before we start
down the river. The next day being a fine one, a portion
of our party started on foot to visit a celebrated spring,
known as the Ojo del Mertu, about five miles distant from
our camping-ground; and on their return, more fortunate
than I, they succeeded in killing an antelope, a portion of
which they brought ilito camp.
The night passed without incident worthy of note, and
the next day found us en route for Mesilla. We had hardly
been two hours on our journey before we encountered
"Jim" Davis. Now "Jim" Davis is a character, even in
Arizona,- a small, wiry, hatchet-faced, red-haired Yankee
from the State of Maine. "Jim'.' came to Arizona iii'52,
and has retained all the shrewdness and smartness that he
possessed before he left the pine forests of his native State.
Like most Maine men, he possessed the demon "swap" to
a great degree. It had grown with his growth and strengthened with his strength, till finally it had earned for him the
sobriquet of "The Emigrants' Friend." "Jim" believed
ill emigration as firmly as the old emigrant commissioners
of Castle Garden believed in it when they made their thirty
thousand dollar per annum fees. He thought with honest
old Horace, that'twas every man's duty to "Go West,"
and firmly believed in every man doing his duty. He took
good care that no emigrant train should reach Arizona until
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