AMONG THE APACHES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8167, 19 August 1887, Page 3

AMONG THE APACHES.

An Indian ra’d is thus related by the writer of ‘Among the- Apaches’ in the Century Magazine :—'A military train of a score of waggons, guarded apparently by only a small nlatoon of cavalry, b; rs down through Apache P.a >, where Cochise had some two or three hundred warriors in waiting, and their eyes glistened, with deVght as they looked at the chance tf an easy capture of the bard bread, roolassev,' sugar, and tobacco on which they might revel for weeks. They made one wild yelling charge on the train from every quarter, when, instead of savage luxuries, there cams from each waggon a blinding, o r ashing volley from nearly a score of well-armed infantrymen. Cochi.-e’s warriors were sint flying brek like surf, and, as thsy flad up the steep sides ot the canon, Were picked off like squirrels in a tree. Cochise d’ed some nine or ten years ago a natural, death, a singular death for one who had been so active in the trade of death. However much they nny have hated him in that frontier land, even their legislature honoured him with a conspicuous county, showing that their hatred could not conscientiously descend Into contempt. Alter Cochise came Victirio,. whose fats has been noted. Then Nana led them for a brief period of time, then came Nachuz, son of Cochise, who rules the Chitioahua baud. Juh (pronounced Hoo) was a noted leader, and met bis death in a way that was scarcely heroic. Blindly drunk with mezeal, be attempted to ride from a Mexican town to bis village, his bead buried in his hands, and hie elbows and the responsl- - of get ing home resting on the psny’s shouldir-. As they crossed a shallow stream, the horse, believing it was his turn, leaned forward. for a drink, and Job was precipitated into the water, and there, with his face in that kind of liquor that he had not followed closely enough in his he was drowned.