On the Trail of Geronimo — page 278: what you’re looking at

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264 ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. them. The Apaches could have felt no fear of a pursuing party, even if it numbered ten times as many as themselves ; for, among the wild fastnesses of the mountains, no body of white men could fol low them successtully. One of the most common artifices of the Apaches, when pressed hard, is to divide. Thus a party of a dozen will separate in two equal companies, and their pursuers, of necessity must do the same or concentrate upon one. In either event, the Apaches soon break again and continue this until the whole dozen are scattered and all following a different course. Before dissolving into their original elements, the Apaches fix upon some rendezvous miles away. The pursuing cavalry or foot soldiers thus find them- selves completely baffled, for that man 1s not yet born that can run down a single Apache, who 1s capable of trotting fifteen hundred feet up the slop- ing side ofa mountain without a perceptible quick- ening of his pulse Connicloooks (C(O) mM