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and terrifying I do not know. but the Spaniards
retreated. made a little stand at a trench half
way TO Malate and then ran back into the last
ditch before Malate. And Malate lsthe last out
post in front of Manila on the south.
After we had xamined the battery and the
trench near the road we walked along behind
the trench to the little group Of huts at the line
near the beach. AS we went down the line the
Fillpinos fell in In squads Of from one to eleven
and presented arms. ItNreminded one OF the
old Continentals who stood in their ragged
regimentals flinchinG not. Beyond this cluster
OF huts the Filipinos said was the danger zone.
They made signs to us TO get down behind the
breastwork and crawl down to the beach. They
set the example and we followed II. From be-
hind their old dirt-nlled boats we had n good
view Of the Spanish work, about two hun
dred yards away. The Spaniards kept well
under cover. Phey had learned that precau-
ton from experience. for when the Filiplnos
do shoot they try to hit, and they succeed with
disconcerting frequency. Ammunition is too
difficult for them to get to be lightly wasted.
We souatted there for ten or fifteen minutes
and the glasses failed to reveal any movement
behind the Spanish line. Then eight or ten OF
them sent US q warning to keep on lying low.
1t was entirely unexpected and quite un-
seen. l was watching the line closely
with good glasses, but saw no indica-
tion OF the fire. Smokeless powder is
difficult to detect on q rainy day. The
bullets went very high. for we did not hear them
whistle. and for once the treetops ESCAPED. l
looked back when the report reached us and
saw that four or Eve OF the Filipinos who had
got tired Of souatting Town were standing up.
They laughed when I looked around, and one
said alto, alto" high, too high. Yes. indeed,
much too high. Nowhere near close enough
to make q Filipino duck.
It was getting we'll on toward dusk when We
left the trench and started back. There was
only one place we had not examined, and only
Noriel's urgency kept us from that. 1t could
not be made to seem to us that such fire as the
Spanish was dangerous. Just beyond the line
Of bamboos that crossed the field in front OF
the insurgent trench stood the shell Of a big.
white. iron-roofed house. which looked as II it
might have been a place to dry tobacco or a
barrack. 1t had been riddled with the bullets
Of both sides, but it offered such a fine view Of
the Spanish work that some of us wanted to
sneak up to 1t and have q look. The best
view Of the Spaniards we had had, except
that on the beach. had been from the top of
the battery for the smoothbores. There the
bamboo was a little thinner than further down
toward the beach, and the glasses brought the
Spanish line out fairly clearly, but not with
such distinctness as was desirable. But Noriel.
who had come up to the front by this time. said
1t was too dangerous for us to go to the house.
and 80 we turned back. As we walked down
the road to the barricade. where we had left the
caromettas, the Spaniards sent q volley after us
that still further crippled the poor tree tops,
but hurt nobody.
When we got back to Paranaque It was
almost dark. and we went to the house where
We had had soup to stop for the night. Supper
was something of a repetition of the dinner at
pinAda hut if addad difLne Ne nnco0 and 0roat
is the fame Of dulce de cocoa throughout this
land. 1t is made OF fine shreds OF c~ocoanut
boiled In sugarcane syrup until 1t is about the
consistency of marmalade. And now that the
commissary's store has sold all its blackberry
jam there is a great cry for dilce de cocoa.
Noriel said they made 1t in a province four days
from here. and II the supply he ordered
for US is not delivered very soon we
are going to ask Admiral Dewey and
Gen. Anderson to send out Q scouting
party TO bring it in. That might've slept on
the floor all in one room. each with a sleeping
mat and two pillows. one for his head and one
to put between his knees. Noriel turned in
with the rest Of us, but young Capt. Guzman
sat UP and spanked the daughter of the house.
They sat in the room where we were all trying
to sleep. and talked in ordinary tones. and it
was after midnight before we could get sufl-
GENTLY used to it to sleep. The girl was stir
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whether she sat up all night or does not re-
Quire much sleep. For breakfast they gave US
rice boiled until 1t was a gummy gelatinous
mass. They eat it with sugar and shredded
cocoanut. but Americans would use it with
grape and canister to clear roads or stop ,
charges.
In all the time the Americans have been
here. or rather in all the time the revolution
has been going on. for Aguinaldo came two
weeks or more after Dewey's victory. this was
the first time that Americans had been up to
the insurRent lighting line since the Spaniards
had been driven from Cavite Viejo. below
Bakor. 1t was in consideration OF this that
when we got ready to start back from Para
hague. Gen. Noriel gave each OF us a Spanish
flag. taken somewhere along the road as the
surrendered or fed. Mine was
at Paranaque.
Gen. Anderson was glad to get our report.
and the next day he sent Lieut.. Mccain. bril-
gade Adjutant. to make further examination
Of the country about Pineda. Lieut.. Calkins.
navigator Of the Olympia. and 1 went along.
This time we did not delay with Noriel and
Filipino hospitality. but went straight to the
front. We found Lieut.. Col. Cables get
ting the smoothbores into the battery. and as
we started back he asked us to report 10
AGuinaldo that the guns were In position at
80 that afternoon. This day We turned off
from the GAMMA Real at the first barricade
went into the country. following the
around Manila. The trenches are not
continuous. but really q series of detached out
works from a quarter to half a mile apart.
Usually they are simply barbados across
or little roadways that lead through
D country elsewhere impossible. AS we sat
to rest at each breastwork the FilipInos
us that they had another still further on.
Each time the Spaniards were in view behind
heir barbados. which always faced the insur-
gent works at from $50 to 300 yards. All day
here was desultory firing. and once or twice it
was pretty close. There was one place whore
4 Spaniard had crawled up from his line TO an
Did stone pile not more than twenty yards from
he left front of the insurgent works. From the
We could see very plainly a dozen
Or more Spaniards behind their barricade. $50
down the road. They were standing
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