On the Trail of Geronimo — page 261: what you’re looking at

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

ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO, 249 exterminating five United States soldiers. Death and wounds had resulted on both sides, when the red men withdrew from the fight with scarcely less precipitancy than that with which they had en- tered it. It would be hard to describe or understand pre- cisely how thiswas done. ‘The struggle seemed to be at its height, when it ceased suddenly, and the whites, who glanced around for foes to fight, found none within reach. They had made a dash in dil- ferent directions, and, by the time the thing was understood, they dropped in the sand, where it was almost impossible to draw bead on them, but from which position they could fire with fatal accuracy at their enemies. It was at this moment that the lieutenant gave the order for his men to imitate the tactics of the Apaches, and they obeyed so readily that it looked as if each had been brought down by a fatal wound. The white men nad not spent months, and in some cases years, in campaigning against the Apaches without learning much. Now that every one was stretched out in the sand, which felt hot enough to roast eggs, they were as favorably placed as their foes. The latter would have given their CoOnnicloo@