The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-08-04

few seconds we aimed many strokes al
each other, which each of us tried to
avoid as well as he could / think, how
ever, that fortune was turning against
already entered rather deeply into my
right arm, when with my left hand | took
from my belt large-siZed pistol. / dis
charged it full at his breast; the ball and
the wadding went through his body.
For few seconds Cajoui endeavOred
still to defend himself; struck him with
all my force, and he fell at my feet; then
wrested from him his dagger, which / still
retain. My people came out of the mud
hole and Joined me. Compassion soon
replaced the luminosity we bore against
Cajoui. We made a sort of litter; | ban
daged his wound, and we carried him
more than six leagues in this manner to
my habitatiOn, where he received all the
care his state required. Every moment
L expected him to die; every quarter of an
hour my people came to tell me how he
was; and they kept saving to me:
Master, he cannot die, because he has
the anten-anten upon him; and it is very
lucky that you have some of it too, and
that you fired at him, for our arms would
have been of no avail against him."
| laughed at their simplicity, and ex-
pected from ore minute to another to hear
that the wounded man had breathed his
last, when my Lieutenant brought me,
two inches square, saying to me:
Here master, is the anten-anten l
found upon CajOui's body"
At the same time one of my men an
nounced his death.
"Ahw said Alila, "if had not taken the
anten-anten from him he would be still
alive"
| searched the small book through and
through; prayers and invocatiOns that
had not much sense were therein written
in the TagaleSe language. A good friar
who was present took it out of my hands.
as | had, but by no ms; he rose up
and went into the kitchen, and in short
time after came out and told me that he
had made an auto da-fe of it.
My poor Lieutenant almost cried with
vexation, for he considered the little book
to be his property, and thought that in
possession of it he would be invulnerable.
| should also have wished to have kept it,
as curious specimen of Indian super
Stifion.
The next day l had much trouble to
persuade my stout friend, Father Miguel
to bury CajOui in the cemetery. He main
tanned that a man who died with the
anten- anten upon him ought not to re-
ceive Christian burial. To make him
accede to my wishes it was necessary TO
tell him that the anten anten had been
taken from Cajoui before his death, and
ALILA IN DANGER.
A few days after Cajoui's death it was
my faithful Atlas turn to encounter
danger not less imminent than that to
which l had been exposed at the time OF
my combat with the bandit chief. But
Alila was brave, and, although he had no
firearms did not frighten
him.
Large vessels-real NOah's arkS-
freighted by various merchants, sailed
every week from the town of Pasig for that
of Santa-Cruz, where every Thursday a
large market was held. Eight daring and |
brigands went on board one of |
these vessels; they hid their arms among
the bales of goods. The ship was scarcely |
out at sea when they seized them, and
a horrible scene of slaughter enSued.
All who had resisted them were butch |
cred, even the pilO: was thrown overheard;
at length they plundered the passengers |
of the money they had upon them, took |
every article of value they could find, and,
loaded with their booty, steered the YES
sci to a deserted spot on the shore, where |
they landed.
l had been informed of this nefarious |
enterprise, and went with haste to the |
spot where they landed. Unfortunately !
arrived too late, for they had already |
escaped to the mountains, after they had |
divided the spoil. Notwithstanding the |
slight hope | entertained of Overtaking |
them, | set off in pursuit, and after a long |
march l met an Indian, who informed me
that one Of the bandits. not SO good a