The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-30

 1 ican money) for the men. and twenty | cents for myself, and want of exercise
 most of us became i'll with the prevalent diseases of the country, some having to be sent to the hospital. l wrote seVeHNl | letters to the preSidente and also to | General Tino to allow us exercise in or der to keep the men in health. l also requested them to allow me books, so l that l could occupy myself in some way. None of these requests was grant, ed"
 On September they were hurried off 1 to Bengued, in the province of Abra, and they were kept in strict confinement there for six Weeks but afterWard they had the liberty of the town, as the Span- iards had until General Tino got there and had them closely confined again | After the battle of San Quentin Pass on December 5, where Tino was defeated
 they were again hurried off to the north | to be hidden in the mountains.
 | Then began an exciting chase. All | though Gilmore and his men did not
 knod of it, Colonel Hare and Lieutenant | Colonel Howze, with 14O picked cavalry
 men, were hot in pursuit of the party 1 Hoping however, for rescue, Gilmore
 and his sailors left signs behind them
 and Hares men found now and then | chalked on a cliff or the face of rock,
 such messages as 'Gillmore" or Gill
 more and party" to guide them.
 We traveled at night writes Gill;
 more, "by torchlight, through water
 grass up to our waists, though jungles where we had to cut our paths at times,
 and canyons, with very little to eat but | rice and at times q small quantity of l pork. At this time we were allowed I pack-h horses to carry the effects of the party, and I was allowed a pony, which l used to ford the different mountain streams. The country, however, be-
 came so rough that we could not drive
 our horses further-even the Tagalog
 lieutenant in charge of the party had to abandon his. We then killed the horses for food, as we had not had meat to eat
 for several days.
 "Then we started for the real climb ing of the mountains, which are any where from three to five thousand feet in this portion of the island. After hay | ing gone over two or three mountain ranges We came to the source of a large river and, being rafted across, camped for the night about three miles below the mouth. Here the Tagalog lieuten-
 ant came to me, and, through an inter
 preter, informed me that he had orders from General Tino to execute us After hesitating for about minute he told
 me that his conscience would rot per init him to do so, but that he would l l~o. 1px, ;,, t,,e, Aex,r were then among the savage tribes of the island, whose hand Is against every
 mans, told him that 1t would be bat ter for him to execute us rather than leave us to be killed by the savages or to starve to death, as we had been
 starving for four days at that time. He said he could not do. so. l then request
 ed him to give me two rifles and am
 munition, by means of which we could protect the partyfroin the sayages. He
 refused, and went off with his men, leaving us alone on the rivers bank.
 We then kept strict guard that night in our camp against the savages, and in the morning followed the trail of our former guard down the river for about three miles. When we arrived on the Ddllk OI tllG TlVSf WE SdW III lIle ulStdIlce
 the savages with their war bonnets and their shields. There was q biz open space here, covered with large stones very much like cobblestones, and here
 we camped, judging that if we had to fight the savages we would fight them with these stones, try to disarm them,
 and then fight them with their own
 weapons. I divided the party into
 halves, sending ten men across the
 river to get bamboo to make rafts as
 1t was my intention to raft the party
 down the river.
 'Tt1e savages, on finding that we did
 not intend to fight them, allowed three of their number to come, without arms, toward us. We made friends with them and they assisted us in building seven rafts We required three more, and the savages assured us that they would come around early in the morning and build them for us, However, the next morning they showed warlike signs, and we were expecting to be attacked that day, when to our joy and surprise, Col onel Hare and his party rescued us. This was In the early morning of De- cember 1S''