CHAPTER XXX. 



Indian Campaigning Apache-Yumayas The General gives his Views 

 " Eminently practical but desperately dangerous " We make a Start 

 Tunas The Lava Beds The Programme Indian Trick. 



A NARRATION of active military operations against savages 

 would hardly be interesting to the reader, neither would it 

 recall sufficiently pleasing memories to the writer to 

 induce him to say much on the subject. It would be but a 

 monotonous recital of long fatiguing marches and hard 

 fare; of nights passed in the saddle, and days in conceal- 

 ment ; often in pouring raiu, without tent and without fire, 

 and living on cold water, hard biscuit, and raw bacon ; for 

 operations against the American indigene, to be successful, 

 must be surprises, and the smoke of a camp-fire would in 

 the pure clear mountain or desert air be visible for twenty 

 miles, while to travel by day would be to ensure being ob- 

 served by the Indian scouts. And all for what ? If 

 successful, to surprise an unsuspecting camp of semi-nude 

 savages, kill as many as possible, and destroy their stores. 

 If otherwise, and a slight carelessness, folly, or bad luck, 

 has informed your watchful and subtle foe, that you are 



