On the Trail of Geronimo — page 66: what you’re looking at

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58 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. standing a good deal of battering ; but that fearful descent of three hundred feet down the gorge in company with the destroyed stage had been too much for this particular one. It had split apartas if it were a watermelon, and the little canvas bags lay strewn around like leaves in autumn. «'There’s a fortune for some one if it was but known,” said Dick, as he allowed his match to flicker out; “but Buck will bring help to the spot as soon as he looks after Zach.” The lieutenant now naturally asked himself the question whether it was not possible to find his way out of the gorge. He had reached the bottom without help, with no hurt worth mentioning, and it would seem that some path ought to lead to the level ground above. At any rate, he decided to make search, for there was no telling when Buck would be back, and action, even if unattended with any result, was preferable to staying idle in one spot. Naturally, the youth took a course up the gorge, that is, toward the station whence Buck Bragg had gone for help. The task was anything but an easy one. He was obliged to climb over bowlders and move GOmMmiGbdooks (CO)