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.

NO TASTE FOR "INTERVIEWING."
And when I replied, "A live Apache," with a yell and a bound he sprang
towards the corral of the overland mail company, and no
threats or inducements could bring him forth until Cochise
had departed.
I gave Cochise a supply of tobacco and some whiskey,
and he disappeared almost as suddenly as he came.
We had drawn our wagons a few rods below the corral,
close by a little spring that bubbled out from between the
rocks, where we intended to spend the night. No particular guard was kept, as we were so near the protection of
the mail company that we apprehended no danger. Yet
during the night two of our mules were stolen, and so
adroitly, too, that the thieves left no traces behind them. I
was strongly inclined to suspect Cochise, though he indignantly denied the charge, asserting that he was a brave, and
not given to stealing. Nothing could have exceeded the
ludicrous scene that ensued in the morning, when I charged
the loss of the mules to Jimmy's carelessness, and announced
that I should have to send him out to recover them.
"Howly Mother I" says Jimmy. "And what would they
be doin' while I was gettin''cm back?"
When informed they would probably be taking his scalp,
he exclaimed, "Och, Captain, dear; shure if I was you I'd lit the
mules go. We don't nade'cm at all, at all."
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