. Geronimo's story of his life . ty (about seventeen years of age),started to build up the fire, when a moun- 65 GERONIMO tain lion crashed through the tepee and at-tacked her. The suddenness of the attackmade her drop her knife, but she fought asbest she could with her hand. She was nomatch for the lion, however; her left shoul-der was crushed and partly torn away. Thelion kept trying to catch her by the throat;this she prevented with her hands for a longtime. He dragged her for about 300 yards,then she found her strength was failing herfrom loss of blood, and she called to theother women for
. Geronimo's story of his life . ty (about seventeen years of age),started to build up the fire, when a moun- 65 GERONIMO tain lion crashed through the tepee and at-tacked her. The suddenness of the attackmade her drop her knife, but she fought asbest she could with her hand. She was nomatch for the lion, however; her left shoul-der was crushed and partly torn away. Thelion kept trying to catch her by the throat;this she prevented with her hands for a longtime. He dragged her for about 300 yards,then she found her strength was failing herfrom loss of blood, and she called to theother women for help. The lion had beendragging her by one foot, and she had beencatching hold of his legs, and of the rocksand underbrush, to delay him. Finally hestopped and stood over her. She againcalled her companions and they attackedhim with their knives and killed him. Thenthey dressed her wounds and nursed her inthe mountains for about a month. Whenshe was again able to walk they resumedtheir journey and reached our tribe insafety. 66. Asa Dkklugie, Wife anu Children UNDER DIFFICULTIES This woman (Francisco) was held as aprisoner of war witli the other Apaches anddied on the Fort Sill Reservation in face was always disfigured with thosescars and she never regained perfect use ofher hands. The three older women died be-fore we became prisoners of war. JNIany women and children were carriedaway at diiFerent times by Mexicans. Notmany of them ever returned, and those whodid underwent many hardships in order tobe again united with their people. Thosew!xG did not escape were slaves to the Mex-icans, or perhaps even more degraded. When warriors were captured by theMexicans they were kept in chains. Fourwarriors who were captured once at a placenorth of Casa Grande, called by the Indians Honas, were kept in chains for a yearand a half, when they were exchanged forMexicans whom we had captured. We never chained prisoners or kept themin confinement, but they seldom got away. 67 GERON
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