The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-08-25

troops made landing.
After while tug cams for us
Gen. Lawton's. Then things were
lively; there were three cOscOes OF lis
tied onether, with high wind, no
| anchor and quite sea, but we finally
got fast to our tue and started for the
seat of war, and kept going until the
water near shore was too shallow for
| the tue, which cast of. The wind be
gan to blow us back faster than we
had come and soon the water was ten
feet deep. Ahont that time some one
remembered that the amigoes, native
boatmcn employed Ivy the government
should he told to pole in shore. The
same thought came to many others.
\ II the officers and halt the enlisted
men began telling the natives what to
do Your American soldier has mas
tered Spanish and likes to show it, but
it is rarely that yon come across one
that Spaniarl can understand, much
less native This. though. he does
not attribute So mach to any failure
on his part, but lays it to the malicious
cunning OF the native Then he talks
had English in its complctest sense.
Our natives couldn't understand, al
though hundred men were trying to
| get them to at one time Finally the
| sign language WAS rcsarted to and the
word ''tierra" Gland or earth). The
natives faces heamed with intelligence
| at last, and they showed the end ofthe
anchorless rope as cvilance of their
hrlp.essnesS to anchor. The captain
| and lieutenant then rolcd us in and We
| let them do it, They had gotten out
| of enongh work at other times to war
rant our pleasure in seeing them sweat.
When the coScr ran aground, as it did
presently, we waied ashore with onr
| traps, through water three or four feet
| deep. went to our places on the eX-
tremc right, and waited for something
| to turn up, while We watched our two
| consorts. drifting down the lake as fast
as the wind could drive them. Now
| and then. words of strong diSpraiSe
would iloat to us across the waters. as
| the ignorant Filipino tried to convince
the Americana that yoa couldn t reach
bottom in 40 lect OF water with 80
foot pole.
News came that Santa Cruz had
surrendered. We were happy. Not
having any private quarrel with the
natives ourselves and scarcely believing
it to he public one We were told
to be ready for supper, and had just
made up our minds to spend the night
where we were when the order was
given to advance in extended order
lbatl!c i0rmation) on u left wheel.
Our company (F) was on the extreme
right flank, ard, of course, had to cover
more ground than the other command.
The orders were for the men on the
right to advance in quick time, the
pivot regulating itself by or advance,
but, instead of doing this. The wings
started off so fast that they overlook
the sharpshoutrrs who wrr" sent ahead
as skirmisherS. and we had to 90 heltcr-
SHELTER rs fast rs DE Lord would let
us. in an rndeavnr to hold our position
While We were making wheel the
| centre made Il straight advance. with
| the result that the men were punched
| in places like 4 flock OF sheep; so that,
| between going over fences made by
| weaving bamboo strips into the stems
of trees set like hedges along the fields
so that a eat could not Get through,
| going between the openings in bamboo
clnmps and through cocoanut groves
and all the other obstacles that exist
in this S"mi-trnpical island, formation
was about lost. Two ct oar companies
were crowded ont oi their place in the
| line. owing to the forward advance os
the regiment on our left. and altogether
We were in pretty bad shape. " hen
we came out. thoroughly exhausted
into a large newly plnwcl field where
We were Strengthened ont into some
thing like order l,y the order, BY the
right flank" That is, each man in the
line turned to the right, and marched
OF until he had his interval, then, 10y
facing to the front, we were again III
extend,,l order. BY this time all OF
us were thoroughly ont of temper, tol
Il Wa growing dusk, and we didn
| know where we We're going to get OF
at. Now and then 4 few struggling
| shots would he heard to or left, but
to Us ii seemed as though our marcl
was to be an unevcnttul on In this
though, we were wrons. Rr tormeo
we resumed on. advance, hut had bare
" gone twenty steps when there was
sputter Of Mausrrs and Ermingtons
to our left Then our rifles began t'
pop, and few stray balls came along
close enough to bn dangerous, and We
all laid down. Something in the all
seemed to he whispering that the
natives were ''adjacent.' And now
came one of those instances that /: