The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-05-31

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soon as we were all landed we crawled
under some brush to partially protect
ourselves from the rain and waited for
morning to appear.
The Vicksburg with all lights out
Immediately put to sea and we saw no
more Of her until the afternoon of the
25th. At daybreak we started for
Casiguran, distance OF twenty miles,
and reached there that evening, hav-
ing had to wade in the Bay about five
miles of the distance. When we went
into the town the natives hailed our
party with delight and congratulated
them on their capture of the prisoners.
We were Immediately put in a room
and guard placed over us and also
kept there two days and three nights.
The natives would come around and
peep in at us through the windows and
doors but offered no violence. Sago-
via would come in to see US at nights
tell us how things were progressing,
and get his orders for the next day He
succeeded in gathering together some
rice, some cracked corn, and having
two caribous killed TO take on the trip
and thirteen cargsdores to carry this
truck.
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which we could get any supplies and
what we received here was to last US
until we reached Pslanan( Aguinaldo's
camp, a distance of ninety miles. We
also wrote several letters to Aguinaldo
telling him we were coming and would
be there in six or seven days. These
letters we're all forgeries. We had
previously captured some OF Lacuna's
papers and it was a small task to
transfer his signature by means of
carbon paper and then ink it over
These letters were sent on ahead of us
by natives and reached there two days
before we did. On the morning of the
18th of March we started for Palanan,
crossing md recrossi' = the Casiguran
river seventy-four tie.es and reaching
the sea about noon. Our marching
from here was along the sea coast OF
the Pacific Ocean. We followed along
| this coast in the soft sand and for
miles over boulders from the size of a
PERSONS head to as large as a nipa
hoase. At high tide the waves were
all over these rocks and at low tide
they were slippery. Where the noun
tains came right down to the waters
edge We would have to cut up over
them pulling each other up and help
ing ourselves by small trees and roots
The getting down on the other side was
much more dangerous and We usec
long poles to keep from slipping. 1
rained every night and from coustan
wading we were wet continually. We
marched every morning at daybreaI
and would stop about eight O'Clock
and boil our rice or corn for break
fast. In about two hours we would
resume our march and keep going un
til five or six in the evening, having
two meals a day. One days marcl
was pretty much like the other and OF
the evening of the 22nd day we stopped
on the beach and knew we we're abou
six or seven miles from where Aguin
aldo was supposed to be. We were I
weak and tired lot of men and as on
rice and corn were all gone we wer
unable to get any further. We hat
all gone the limit and must have some
thing to eat. The natives caught
few fresh fish along the beach and on
lad caught an octopus. We roaste'
the fish over some Goals and ate ther
without salt, scales and all and ais
got little OF the octopus soup and
am compelled to say that | would no
care for it as regular diet. At thi
time General Funston had Hilari
write letter and send it to Aguinald
stating that we were out ofrations an
could proceed no further unless h
would send us some. The ration
came and also an order to treat tn
American prisoners well, but to leav
them at this place under a guard
For the rest of the party to come t
Palanan as soon as possible.
We knew then that Aguinaldo wa
within seven miles of us and that ban
ring accidents we would have him
prisoner the next day. We were a
, disappointed at the thought OF bein
left behind and we were afraid tha
sending the natives in alone the
might lose their nerve or in some wa
, mess things up. The General tinall
settled the whole affair by saying thi
! we would stay behind under guar
!, and would follow the main party
= half an hour. This we did and whe
we were half way there one OF IL
soldiers came running back al