On the Trail of Geronimo — page 118: what you’re looking at

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108 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. way down the precipitous side of the gorge, until at last the whole party stood at the base, not far from where Geronimo and his warriors had kindled the campfire the night before. Near the spot a brief halt was made, and the immense carcase of the orizzly bear was viewed with no little wonder. “T have seen a good many of the animals in Lower California,” said Joggens, ‘* but I don’t think any of them were as large as that.” “Tt took some of the strongest bombarding by the whole company to bring him down,” remarked the lieutenant. ‘I should have been in a bad fix but for the Apaches.” “Not much worse than ye were with the same,” said Windstrom, “for it was only jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire.” ‘¢T think if I had been in your place,” added Ray Bedford, “I would have taken the bear instead of Geronimo.” ‘¢So would I, had I known what I since learned, and yet you can see how much worse it would have resulted for me.” “There’s no forecasting such things,” was the remark of Walter Braxton; “the safest rule for a COMmCcooolkks (C©)