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.

HONESTY OF THE INDIANYS!I
until we could procure mules to take the place of those of
which we had been robbed. The fourth day, towards
night, three Indians came in, driving four of the sickliestlooking mules it had ever been my lot to see, which they
offered us for fivefanagas of corn each. We purchased
them, and some time afterwards learned that they had been
stolen from a station of the overland mail company, some
hundred miles or more west of Tucson, about five months
before.
During the time we were encamped here I had an excellent opportunity to examine and admire the wild and magnificent scenery of the Chiricahui Mountains, and also to
become acquainted with the character of Cochise and some
of the Apaches, who were spending the summer in this
vicinity, as its convenient locality enabled them to attack
and rob any weak band of emigrants that might be passirng
on their way to California.
After the experience of the first night, through the kindness of Major De Rythe, Assistant Superintendent of the
overland mail, we were permitted to put our animals in the
stone corral of the company, and thus secure them from the
visits of our Apache friends.
While here, a man named Frazier, with his family, consisting of his wife and four children, passed through with
two two-horse wagons, on their way to San Diego, where
they intended to settle. The oldest child was a boy,
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