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 Approach of the White Men—Sufferings in the Mountains—Jealousy of Settlers—Prairies set on Fire—Survivors of the 30,000 rescued by White Men from California. 255

CHAPTER XVI.

Cozens' Start from Merilla—First Encounter with Apaches, and Murder of Laws—A Bear Hunt—To the Ruins of Le Gran Quivara—Two Mules stolen—Back again to Merilla—Cozens and Cochise, an Apache Chief—Cochise offers to act as Guide to the Encampment of his Warriors—The great Mirage known as Greenhorn's Lake—A Chaos of Rocks and Precipices—Following an Indian Trail—Down the Ravine to the Apache Valley—First Sight of Apache Village with Huts built on truncated Mounds—Excitement among the Apaches—Cochise explains Cozens' Presence—Eager Welcome—Arrival of Magnus Colorado, the great Scalper—Trying Interview between Magnus and Cozens—Eternal Friendship sworn—A blood-stained Baby's Frock—Scalp Dance and its attendant Horrors—Back again to Mexico—Second and third Trips to the North—With Jim Davis the Emigrant's Friend, to the Navajoe Country—Ascent of the Sierra Madre—Encounter with a Panther—In the Zuni Valley among the blue-eyed Indians—Ruins of Zuni—Encounter with Navajoes—Jim Davis's Story—Re-capture of stolen Cattle—A fall of Three Hundred Feet—Marvelous Preservation of Cozens—Nursed by the Zunis—Murder of Stewart's Family by Apaches—Escape of Stewart to Zuni—His Death of a broken Heart—Return of Cozens to Mexico. 258

CHAPTER XVII.

Crisis in British America—Consolidation of its various Parts into one great Colony—Decay of the Hudson's Bay Company—Establishment of an International Boundary Line—Journey of Palliser—Admission of British Columbia to the Dominion, and Conditions of that Admission—Surveys for Railway—Fleming's Expeditions—Dispute between the British Government and the United States—Joint-Commission sent out to determine the Boundary Line—Results obtained by it. 269