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.

THE OA THAN T.RAGED Y.
his family, left the Pimo villages, bound for California.
His outfit consisted of two yoke of cows and one of oxen,
with three wagons. His stock were jaded and worn by the
long and tedious journey across the plains, and he had pushed
on as far as the Pimo villages, hoping to be able to replenish
his exhausted supply of provisions, as well as find company
to cross the almost desert country that for two hundred miles
ties between the Pimos and Fort Yuma. But it had been
a bad year for the Pimos, and they had nothing to spare;
indeed, were fighting hard to keep the wolf away from their
own doors. With starvation staring him and his family in
the face if he remained with the Pimos, he determined to
attempt to reach Fort Yuma, where he hoped to find plenty
of provisions and an escort. He pushed on, therefore, out
into the desert, hts family half starved, and his jaded cattle
scarcely able to drag the wagons through the deep sand that
surrounded them on all sides.
For seven days they toiled on, their only comfort at night
the thought that they were a little nearer their goal. After
being obliged to unload their wagons at the foot of every
little eminence, in order to induce the weary cattle to make
the ascent, the afternoon of the eighth day found them at
the foot of a rocky bluff. Here unloading the wagons once
again, they wearily toiled along, till at last its summit was
gained. Halting here, Mr. Oatman gave himself up to the
most gloomy forebodings, and the terrible prospect before
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