The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-18

Ilno had intended TO execute all the
I AfrnSrlcan prisoners: but the presidente
o ~ me Town interceding for US, the Gen
tral mad changed his mind He however
,ssueu strict orders that no one should
he US or communicate with us, and
men 'I hdi placed us ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
nifh DeIhS placed in one cell by them
I lives, ana / being placed in the upper
lily oI the Jail with the jailer's family.
Itre, owing to the Door food and our
allowances being cut down TO ten cents
theNlcah money! for the men and twenty
nnsf tor myself. and want of exercise
I Iiost Ol US became i'll with the prevalent
disease OF the country some having To he
LII 70 the hospital | wrote several let
~ Ut TO, 20 tne presidente and also to Gener-
al Ilno. To allow us exercise in order 10
http the men in health / also requested
o oneim 70 aloW me books. so that i could
tbeelPy myself in some way. None of
en.sc requests were granted. Here we
1 remained in strict confinement until Sou
tthDer 5th, when we were hurriedly sent
81 20 Bengued. in the Province of Abra
! ~ TINS place we were kent at first for
about six weeks, in strict confinement
Dut aiterward were allowed the liberty OF
~ sire t1"n, as were the Spaniards which
siyauy improved our health being now
a o. 10 take exercise. This continued un-
~ GSher;tl T1no arrived in town when
at,a P,aCeu US an In strict confinement
aEaih, ana on December 5th when our
nOops TOOK san Quentin Pass and routed
MS army, he hurriedly marched ms under
a strons guard, for the mountains in the
Colonel Hare and Lieutenant Colonel
rowe at this time, with "a body of nick
ca troops OF their commands were close
IN pursuit of Lieutenant CiilImore and his
men but the prisoners did not know If
Ihe writer continues:
We however, hoping that some of our
uCOps would be I'm pursuit left ali the
Slsns We could on the fences bowIders
ahd trees along the route. This march
undergo We Travelled at night nv torch
nsht, through water esyass up TO orr
waists. through jungles Where W We n had 0t to
SuL OGr paths at times, and canons with
very little to eat but rice and at times
a smaii quantity of pork. At this time
We were allowed pack-horses to carry
i lne SHects OF the party, and i was al
lowed a pony which l used to ford the
uIHeTent mountain streams The coun-
Iyi however, became so rough that We
could not drive our horses ftIrther-even
the Tagalog Lieutenant in charge of The
party had to abandon his We then kill
ed the horses for food as we had MOI
Itau meat 10 eat for several days We
then started for the real climbing of the
mountains. which are anywhere from
tin 70 I'VE thousand feet in this por-
uoh OF the island. After having gone
over Two or three mountain ranges we
Sdne 70 the source of large river and
being RATED across, camped for the n CHI
about three miles below the mouth Here
the Iagalog lieutenant came TO me and
hS a Jug an interpreter. informed me that
nute na -. oruets from General Tino to exc
eute US. After hesitating for about a
minute. he told me that his conscience
nOulu not permit him to do So bur that
ne would abandon us I'm the mountajns
AS we were then among the savare
tribes OF the island, whose hand is
hsatins ms. every mans, 1 told him it would
o. DStter Tor him to execute us rather
man leave us TO be killed by the savages
OF 10 starVe to death, as we had been
sediIElng tor four days at that time. He
sald ne could not do so. / then renuested
hlrn TO give me two rifles and ammuni-
tlon' Dy means of which we could pro
tect the party from the savages. He re-
u. n Will hi
US alone on the rivers bank"
Ihey then Kept strict guard that night
me morning followed the trail of their
three miles:
When we arrived on the bank of tho
river, we saw in the distances the cav,
ages with their war-bonnets and their
shlelds. There was a big open space
much like cobblestones and here we
cafnped, judging that if we had to fight
the savages we would fight them with
tnese stones, try TO dsarm them and
then night them with their own weapons
divided the party into halves. sending
zen men across the river TO get bamboo
70 make rats, as IL was my intention to
raft the party down the river. The saw
ages. on finding that we did not intend
70 hght them, allowed three of their
number to come, without arms toward
~. We made friends with them. ana
tney assisted us in lpildIng seven rats
We required three more, and the savages
carly in the morning and build them for
US. However the next morning they
showed waTlike signs, and we were ex-
ptCung TO be attacked that daV when
20 our JOY and surprise Colonel Hare and
us party rescued US This was in the
early morning Of December 18Th
This march of Colonel Hare's is really,
unIrecedented; for says IIeutenant
Gilmore, how he. with his brave men
loaded down as they were with ammun
ton and rifles, could have gone over the
ran that we did ! can not understand:
colonel Hare concluded to build RATS
ana raft down the river to the sea: and !
river; we spent the day in building RATS
-tulding thirty seven in all These
weak and sick. and also to assist the
main body or troops in crossing the river
IT the different points. The river was
full OF rapids. and the rafting throug
these rapids was difficult and dangerous
IN the extreme. There were many gal |
liant rescues made from drowning and
one never knew In the morning whether |
n" would he ave a. night After fifteen |
days OF this arduous travel being oblig /
TO live on the country Colonel Hare's |
party had exhausted their supplies we |
arrived at ArbaIuque townfCf consid /
cradle size at the mouth of this river
We're we were in a sorry state as W"
Command were really incapacitated for
walking their feet beng very much swol- !
len from the hard road over which thny
had Travelled without shoes Some of the |
mon were nearly naked and when the ma |
tives saw us they remarked that the |
Americans must be men of IRON Thev
had never believed that any body of mer ,
could march across mountains throuP' |
alive"
Fere their troubles ended as the gun
boat Princeton was AZ Apart only ten |
MILES on. and had stores of food To-
them. They then marched across 4
hparri. took the transport. and arrive |
- Manila, where they were turned over
- General ot's and then to their sep
arate organizations.