The perpetual night had no moon or stars. There were, however, all manner of beasts and birds. Among the beasts were many hideous, nameless monsters, as well as dragons, lions, tigers, wolves, foxes, beavers, rabbits, squirrels, rats, mice, and all manner of creeping things such as lizards and serpents. Mankind could not prosper under such. All creatures had the power of speech and were gifted with reason.
There were two tribes of creatures: the birds or the feathered tribe and the beasts. The former were organized under their chief, the eagle. These tribes often held councils, and the birds wanted light admitted. This the beasts repeatedly refused to do. Finally the birds made war against the beasts. The beasts were armed with clubs, but the eagle had taught his tribe to use bows and arrows.
The serpents were so wise that they could not all be killed. One took refuge in a perpendicular cliff of a mountain in Arizona, and his eye changed into a brilliant stone may be seen in that rock to this day.
They were gone nearly a year, Gen. Miles often not knowing even where they were or whether or not they had been destroyed by the enemy. On the night of Aug. Miles hastened there and met the chief on his way north under guard of Lawton. The old warrior was surrounded by about bucks, squaws, papooses, and dogs. They had little else than their blankets and tent poles, and as Gen.
Miles afterward stated in his memoirs, 'The wily old chief had evidently decided to give up warfare for a time and live on the Government until his tribes gained sufficient strength to return to the warpath. Miles writes: 'Every one at Washington had now become convinced that there was no good in the old chief, and he was, in fact, one of the lowest and most cruel of the savages of the American continent. He and his bucks were accordingly sent to Fort Pickens and the squaws and papooses to Fort Marion, Florida.
It was finally decided to keep Geronimo confined as a prisoner of war. His desire to get back to the West was so pitiful, however, that he was transferred to Fort Sill, where he spent the remainder of his days. Wood tells an interesting anecdote of an incident which occurred one afternoon when he was guarding the old chief while Lawton went in search of his command, the location of which he had lost soon after the surrender: 'About 2 o'clock in the afternoon the old Indian came to me and asked to see my rifle.
It was a Hotchkiss, and he said he had never seen its mechanism. When he asked me for the gun and some ammunition I must confess I felt a little nervous, for I thought it might be a device to get hold of one of our weapons.
I made no objection, however, and let him have it, showing him how to use it. He fired at a mark, just missing one of his own men who was passing. This he regarded as a great joke, rolling on the ground and laughing heartily and shouting, 'Good gun. Miles, in his memoirs, describes his first impression of Geronimo when he was brought into camp by Lawton, thus: 'He was one of the brightest, most resolute, determined-looking men that I have ever encountered.
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