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Page 13 - Company was to re-open the old mines, or work new veins, and extract the immense quantities of silver with which they were credited by Mexican tradition. In Mexico, where mining is the main occupation of all classes, tales and traditions of the enormous richness of some region, always inaccessible, are handed from generation to generation, and form the idle talk of the entire population. The nearer an ancient mine may be to the heart of the Apache stronghold, the more massive the columns of native...
Page 3 - I was told that the safety of all the passengers demanded that I should keep awake; and as the only means of effecting this, my neighbors beat a constant tatoo with their elbows upon my ribs. During the journey from the Rio Grande to Tucson my delirium increased, and the only thing I have ever remembered of that part of the route was the sight of a large number of Indian campfires at Apache pass. My first recollection after this, is of being awakened by the report of a pistol, and of starting up...
Page 32 - If it is said that the Indians are treacherous and cruel, scalping and torturing their prisoners, it may be answered that there is no treachery and no cruelty left unemployed by the whites. Poisoning with strychnine, the wilful dissemination of...
Page 299 - ... barbarian talking in the familiar words of Confucius, the old men bowed approvingly, and a number of boys jumped forward to show us the way. This scene will appear more impressive by contrast, if we suppose a couple of Chinamen, followed by a crowd of a few thousand American men and boys, and if we suppose the two strangers to turn and quote in good English the similar passage of our Lord's sermon on the mount. The reader may form his own opinion as to the success of such an experiment.
Page 208 - ... shock, and a staggering motion of our boat, and we were again steaming up the channel. Going to the stern I could see but one of the four Chinamen, and he was motionless in the water. Among the faces of the foreigners on the crowded decks there were few traces of the feelings which every newcomer must experience after witnessing such a scene. The officers of the boat looked coolly over the side to see whether the bow and paddles had suffered any damage, and such remarks as were made on the occurrence...
Page 32 - There is only one way to wage war against the Apaches. A steady, persistent campaign must be made, following them to their haunts — hunting them to the " fastnesses of the mountains." They must be surrounded, starved into coming in, surprised or inveigled — by white flags, or any other method, human or divine — and then put to death. If these ideas shock any weak-minded individual who thinks himself a philanthropist, I can only say that I pity without respecting his mistaken sympathy.
Page 110 - They go neatly and well clad, wearing a black silk hood upon their shaven heads, and a light hat over it to defend their faces from the heat of the sun. Their behavior is, to all appearance, free, yet modest, neither too bold and loose, nor too dejected and mean. As to their persons, they are as great beauties as one shall see in this country. In short, the whole scene is more like a pretty stage comedy than the begging of indigent poor people. It is true, indeed, their fathers could not send out,...
Page 299 - The effect of this exhortation was as remarkable as it was unexpected by me. In an instant the character of the crowd was changed : the hooting and pelting had stopped to hear the barbarian talking in the familiar words of Confucius, the old men bowed approvingly, and a number of boys jumped forward to show us the way. This scene...
Page 14 - And this happened under a United States flag of truce. At this time three of the most powerful tribes of the nation were concentrated at Apache pass, and when Cachees arrived among them, a war of extermination was immediately declared against the whites.
Page 1 - One can scarcely picture a more desolate and barren region than the southern part of the Llano Estacado between the Brazos and the Pecos rivers. Lying about 4,500 feet above the sea, it is a desert incapable of supporting other plant or animal life than scattered cacti, rattlesnakes, and lizards. Our route, winding along the southern border of this region, kept on the outskirts of the Comanche country. Here we were constantly exposed to the raids of this fierce tribe, which had steadily refused to...