On the Trail of Geronimo — page 150: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

140 ON THH TRAIL OF GERONIMO. Apaches themselves, who, like all their race, prefer to make their attacks just before dawn, when their foes, if unwarned, are sure to be sleeping the most soundly. Butit was necessary to get the men in position, so that the blow, when it should fall, should be irresistible. By and by those in the rear found themselves closing up—proof that the front had halted. Joggens and Windstrom had stopped, and the cap- tain, the heutenant, and the doctor gathered around them. “ Here is the spot,” whispered the New Eng- lander, whose keen sight told him, despite the darkness, the precise place where the ascent was to be made to reach the plateau where Geronimo and his men had gone into camp early in the evening. It was the custom of the bodies of cavalry, when pushing through the Apache country, to take with them several native scouts, who at times rendered valuable service. ‘The stealthy, serpent-like indi- viduals were more capable of following their own race into the mountain fastnesses and through the wild canyons than any Caucasian could be; but that person who deliberately turns against his own CoOnniclooo S