The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-22
SAVAGE FLATTERY.
Speeches Made By the Apache Chiefs al
 Their Recent Surrender.


 Their Recent Surrender.
 The following is a correct translation of the language used by Chihuahua, Natchez and Geronimo, at the time ot the surrender. It was not only translat- ed by the regular interpreters present, but Captain Burke, who has been study ing the Apache language, attestsi its cor rectness. Chihuahua said: 'I am very glad to see you and have this talk with you. It is as you say, we shall always be in danger so long as we remain out here, but hope from this on that we may live better with our families and not do any harm to any one. l am anxious to behave, for l see the sun looking down upon me, and the earth listening, and I am thinking better. It seems to me that 1 have seen the one who makes the rain and sends the winds. He must have sent you to this place. l surrender simply to you because be- lieve in you and you have never lied to us. You do not deceive us. You must be our God. 1 am satisfied with all that you do. You must be the one who makes the green pasture, who sends the rain, who commands the winds. You must be the one who sends the fresh fruit that comes on the trees every year. There are many men in the world who are big chiefs and com- mand many people, but you, l think. are the greatest of them all, or you would not have come out here to see us. 1 want you to be father to me and treat me as your son. l want you to have pity on me. There is no doubt that all you do is right, because all you do is just the same as if God did it. Every thing you do is right, so I con- sider, so I believe you to be. 1 trust in all you do and say. You do not lie, you do not deceive; all you tell us are facts. I am now in your hands. l place myself at your disposition. 1 surrender myself to you. Do with me as you please. shake your hand. l want to come into your camp and stay with you. I do not want to stay at a distance. Iwant to stay where you are. 1 have roamed in the mountains from water to water, and never have I found the place where I could see my father or my mother till to-day. I see you, my father. I surrender to you now, and l do not want any more bad feeling or bad talk. l am going to stay with you in your camp. When ever man raises any thing, even dog, he tries to raise it right and treat it well. So want you to feel toward me. Don't let the people say bad things about me. Now surrender to you and go with you. When we are travelling together on the road, or anywhere else, 1 hope you will talk to me once in a while. think great deal of Alchisay and Kaetena. They think great deal of me, and hope some day to be all the same as their brother, and that you will think as much of me as you do of them. I would like you to send my family with me wherever you send me. 1 have a daughter at Camp Apache, and some relatives of myself and band at San Car los. Wherever you want to send me l wish also you would send them"
 General Crook briefly replied that he would, so far as his family were con- cerned, endeavor to carry outhis wishes.
 Chief Natchez then addressed the General. He said: ''What Chihuahua said I say I surrender to you just the same as he did. I give you my word; give you my body; I surrender. I have nothing more to say than that. When was free I gave orders, but now I sur render to you. I throw myself at your feet. You order and I obey. What you tell me to do 1 do.
 Geronimo's eloqueuce was as follows: 1.-Two or three words are enough. have but little to say. 1 surrender my self to you. Shakes hands with Gen eral Crook. We are comrades, all one family, all one band. What the others say I say also. Now give myself up to you. Do with me what you please. surrender. Once I moved about like the wind, but now I surrender to you and that is all. I surrender to you and want to be just as if I was in your pocket. Now I feel like your brother and Kaetena is my brother also. 1 was very far from here, almost nobody could get to that place, but 1 sent you word I wanted to come in and here l am. Whatever you tell is true. We are all satisfied with that, and l hope the day will come when my word will be as strong with you as yours is with me- "-Tucson (A. T) Cor. Sun Fra''- cisco Bulletin.