On the Trail of Geronimo — page 226: what you’re looking at

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

214 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. an arrow from his bow absolutely without noise at all. I have seen it done, and tried to find out the explanation, but failed.” «Where have you seen it?” asked Lieutenant Dick in some curiosity. “Three years ago when matters were quiet, I visited most of the Apache towns. Geronimo and I are old acquaintances. While he was specially friendly, he took a bow from the hands of one of his sons, and with a grin said he would show me how to fire it without noise. I placed myself at his side, and may say I never was more astonished in all my life.” “ By what ?” “He told me to shut my eyes, and call out when his arrow left the bow. I held my eyes closed until I got tired; when I opened them I asked why he did not shoot. He pointed with a grin to a pine fifty feet off, and there was his arrow buried to the head in the solid wood. “ I then stood near himand watched him closely,” added Joggens. “He sent a second shaft after the first with no more noise, and repeated it several times. I looked at his hands, and studied every movement, but could not see the least difference GOniGdooks (CO) mM