On the Trail of Geronimo — page 283: what you’re looking at

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

ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 269 While it was easy to select a course which wound around the immense rocks, yet such a path led up, down, to the right and left, and in every direction except a straight line. In some places a person was obliged to step upon bowlders and leap from point to point in order to continue his progress. Had the heutenant been following a single indi- vidual or even two or three, it would have been almost impossible to keep to the trail; but there were so many that as long as the twilight lasted he found little if any difficulty. “How easy,” he reflected, as he paused fora moment, “for one of them to crouch behind that rock over there or the one to the left or the one just beyond and pick me off without giving me a chance to dodge or help myself—” He suddenly caught his breath and leaped back, gun in hand, sure that a slight movement at the corner of one of the very masses of stones he was inspecting was that of an Apache drawing bead on him. But the hour was the one in which the active imagination sees enemies where none exist, and second thought convinced the lieutenant he was Comilcoooks (C(O) mM