The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-22

ly riches. The next dAr3l found that the
Indian had made n pipe out Of the she'll.
We struck Salscna The 18th, and there
received a message from Howe stating
that his command was stalled n; the foot
of the mountains and could so no further
on account OF having no shoes. We were
in he same fix. but Colonel Hare was
determined to go ahead, so we caught up
10 Howe that night about IL O'Clock and
left him next day. The trail led through
canyon and as we entered II we found
written on the rocks in large letters;
'DRiNIN '------- HGEn
ON THE WAY TO HE'LL"
This had been written by one Of tho
prisoners who al one time had been al
agent for the brewing concern mentioned
AZ noon on the 18th a message came from
Howe that he had received shoes and
would try and catch us, which he did at
about II O'Clock that night.
~
The evening OF December Is we ran into
small lgorrote village and surprised q
band of Insurgents, killed three. rescued
three of the American prisoners, destroyed
twenty-four guns and lot of ammunition.
Early the morning o; the 18th message
was sent back advising General Young
that we were hot on tho trail of Lieuten-
ant Decker, who was in charge OF the
scouts, reported that he could see the ball
ance OF he American prisoners
Word was quietly passed back for every
man 20 get ready for q charge hui to he
careful not to shoot any OF the Americans
Colonel Hare then. In loud voice yelled
American prisoners lie down." and with
cheer that shook the mountains we
charged into me open space. The Ameri-
can prisoners however, did no. lie down,
but. recognizing that old American yen,
rushed into our arms. The poor fellows
had been abandoned among the Wild Head
Hunters without food or arms Of any kind
and had we been n few hours later they
would probably have been killed We
divided our clothes and food, bur the sight
Of these wretched white men brought tears
had on Il very thin suit of clothes. his feet
We're bare and sore and his beard had
turned gray After lunch and a talk with
the guides 70 was decided that to 20 back
over the old trail would he Impossible, hnr
as the maps showed II TO be only a few
days from the sea II Was decided 10 follow
the river AZ the end OF the secoAd day
We ran out Of food. and at the same time
decided that the maps were not correct.
Colonel Hare then decided. II possible. tc
purchase food from the Head Hunters, ana
! il not possible. hold them up" Tho
| Head Hunters are tribe ~ natives gem
orally known as Igorro,es. but uncivllized
| like those nearer the sea coast, They spear
| the members Of other tribes and then de-
capitate the body. hoist the head on \
4 lance or throw II into a basket In their
! front yards That night we struck VIII
age. but there was not an ounce o. toad
I In Il. nor an Indian. We however. found
lot of palai (rice In ne head, which
we pounded out with the. aid Of sticks,
We worked all night on TVS only to NM
/ In the morning that we had barely enough
! for breakfast At daylight We began to
build RATS and BY night had thirty-two
but we lost ten. including the arms and
/ clothing OF the men on them. the next
| dav on account OF the swift current
/ Christmas day Colonel Hare made up his
mind 70 stop and rebuild the RATS. Wn
halted at deserted village and while ono
| half OF the men worked on the RATS the
other half pounded rice. Christmas din
ner consisted OF rice. Wild sugar cane and
cocoanuts Part Of the command had nc
shoes. part no trousers many had fevp,
ana almost every one had swollen feet
Through the oversight OF some one. I do
not know no. we did not have Christians
| tree that dav. either
December 2S we had two eases OF meas
les which had 20 be carried. Everything
was getting bIacker ard blacker. but we
| trusted 20 God and vent our guns cleals.
The evening or the aeih we rounded !
sharp turn and there before US was q