It must be borne in mind that the country…

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It must be borne in mind that the country was aroused, troops and citizens were scouring the roads in all directions in search of the fugi- tives; but they had entirely disappeared and no trace or trail of them could be found. During the day they concealed themselves by burying their bodies, at night they emerged and pur- sued their journey to the west. Their sufferings from hunger and thirst while crossing the plains of Kansas and Colorado must have been fright- ful. They had no means of carrying water, made no fires, and such food as they could find they ate raw. Roman tells how they added a hog to their commissary although Apaches have a su- perstitious objection to pork. It must have been at an isolated station on the railroad in Kansas. “It was dark,” said Roman, “we come to one house, all dark and still, Apache hungry, hog in little house, Apache tie string around hog he no say que ! que ! Apache no like hog some time, good hog, Apache him hungry.” They had no knives or other weapons and skinned the hog with a piece of tin and buried the skin, the meat they ate raw. And so they kept in sight of the railroad track until they came to where they could see the mountains of New Mexico, then they knew where they were. They left the railroad and made a bee line for the Mescalero reservation.