The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-09

were accustomed to employ so success
fully against the spaniards, they were
killed in large numbers, as our men did
not run, but simply shot them. Now,
| SO many of these men have been killed
there are fewer to gun, and they are
not able to get the dead away quite as
well as they did formerly.
If your servant goes away for a day
| or two you can be certain that he Is
| with the insurgents and in some fight.
| 1t is too common to excite comment
| here when an officers servant who has
been absent for several days is found in
| the insurgents uniform killed, or Is
| brought into our hospital for treatment.
| ! asked my boy if he had ever been an
| Insurrecto. He smiled and answered:
| An, Senior, me no care Combatte."
| You see an Insurrecto is big man, If
he comes into Manila he will be nothing
| but Carametta driver, or work on the
| roads or the docks for forty cents
| day, and loses all his importance, his
| social standing so to speak.
| AS for the women, they are not hand
some, but have magnificent figures;
| this comes from the habit of carrying
everything on their heads, making them
very straight. Their faces are homely,
| and the teeth and gums of most are
disfigured by chewing betel nut. This
! gives the whole mouth the appearance
of being red, and is simply disgusting.
| AS rule they are very vrtuous and
always at work, usually washing.
They wade into river-there are small
rivers veryWhere-select some place
where there is big stone dip their
clothes into the water and then pound
them OH the stone for all they are
worth Mind you, they do all this
without ever wringing out the clothes
so that the water is flying in all direc-
lions. They are certainly a very clean
ly race, to my mind their one redeem
ing feature.
Yesterday we had a very exciting
cruise around the south shore of the
lake. We did not take the troops as we
simply wished to get the lay of the land
before starting another expedition.
Captain 2 MacGrath and Lieutenant
Brown came aboard and we started off.
We kept about one thousand yards
from the shore, so that we could see all
that went on, and yet not tempt the
natives to fire We found the shore one
long line of trenches and full of SOL
diers with guns. We could see back
from the shore company after company
humping down to support those already
in the trenches However, they did not
fire on us, and although we could have
Killed great many of them, we had no
Intention of firing unless they fired at
US Now come the exciting part. We
nhGlrIyiv,ry ,x,i,-
looking trenches near where Captain
MacGrath desired to make a landing
with the troops later, when suddenly
the whole shore famed up, and l wish
you could have heard the scream and
whistle of the missels that came all
around us. 1t seems they had a Nord-
enfeldt gun there in an embrasure. We
at once answered them with all our ord
nance, and we had beautiful little
scrap for about ten minutes. Sergeant
Stevens handled the six FOUNDER on the
lower deck and ! the one on the upper.
/ always take this gum as / can see
everything that goes on from that point
and direct the movements of the boat.
l have never been under artillery fire T.
before; / didn't have much time to
think about it anyway as / had my
ship to handle and my gun to fight 1
Ihe sound, as you probably know, is
entirely different from that made by I
bullets. 1t is very exciting work fight \
ing gun, especially when you see one
of your shells burst right In a bunch of
the enemy. At our second shot the 4
sergeant and both put a shell right in
the embrasure where the gun was We /
heard no more from that gun. In ten
minutes we silenced them completely. 1
We did not land, as the force on the
gunboat is altogether too small for
such work.