Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Americans would not dare to follow SIN
Lleutenants Burr and Humphrey came
o eoo,r. Ihat tran with band of the brigade
right into the mountains to seven miles
beyond where L now am. At Dfmundan
lhey hao light with the insurrectos. Killed
q "u'noer OF them and captured their guns.
A Sample Mountain Trail.
description Of this trial will give YOU
some idea of these mountains of Iuzon 7,
mas been cut with bolos right out Of The
tropical vegetation. rode for miles through
IT, my horse tramping in the bed of a
stream or mountain water, grazed by the
sharp oamboos on each side, and with from
iity 10 sixty feet of tangled bamboo above
my mead. 1t was like going through an
avenue or cave cut out of the forest The
tlme we came through it yesterday was ar
hlsh noon. and that the noon Of the from
almost dark. - was
The roof Of the path was so low that T
Hdd 10 mug my horse to keen from being
torn on him. AS We logged along 7 now
an anu uien TOOK out my note book and tried
" name d description, only to find a hig
rope or bamboo catching me hy tha necL
hanging branch "
e l Ca cannot describe the vegetation. Tangle
slus OF US were great ropes of green so tied
ana twisted together that Won couId not
possipIy crawl through them without an ak
or bolo. Through this tangle rising m
ward Tor distance of 100 feet witbout a
orahch We're silver trunked trees of The
tihesI hardwood, some OF them almost 900
uyitb i h.nr now we would pass fern trees.
with branches fifteen feet long and with
leaves as delicate in their texture as the
hnest lace. There were orchids everywbara
ana strange plants, the names OF which L
w iot KNOW: 1t was a perfect Jungle of
vegetation, the only path being The iit,Ia
narrow alley cut out above the stream
along which We travelled. '-'
The Natural Wonders of Iuzon
Inc scenery was wonderfully beautiful
Our trall led us in and out OF tho i,,ngla
rom one amphitheater of rocks to another
NOW we would be between walls of clifrs
hundreds OF feet high and not farther anart
than the sides OF an average roadway. and
now We would come out of these into a.,
open space covered with this tail grass sur-
rounded by walls of earth and rocks Sor,a
W ., me aihpnltheaters contained ten acres OF
GROUND. Ihey were free from trees and
SO 1ortihed by the rocks that firteen l,s1Ir
rectos might have held the passes 20 a.,
AGAINST an army. The Filipinos had no idea
that our men would venture into thasa
mountains. and they Were SO tarrifoa ~
ance. 4e iesist-
1t Makes One Uneasy.
III makes one uneasy to travel throueb A..
country like this. for you can never ,arr
"heh an enemy may be hidden I'm a
ciump or bamboos. Murders are en- fro
Quent that you can never know when your
TURN Is coming Last week I was I'm n
country hlled with brgands II was tbe
iand or our friends, the Macabebes, and
there were ladrones upon every side play-
ing upon these natives and our troops. I
RODE up the Rio Grande river in little
dugout not more than fifteen feet long and
TWO feet in width. 1t was SO narrow that
1 had to sit very straight TO prevent oyer
turning the boat. I had two Macabeba
guards and Lieutenant Chadwick with me
we RODE Tor seven miles up the river so
close TO the shore that we could almost
touch the bamboos which hung ont over
the streams. Lieutenant Chadwick warn
ed me that II there was firing / should
snroW myself fiat In the boat. 1t was
dark and we moved without lights for soer
We might attract the fire of insurrectos'
We reached Calumpit and did not think
OF danger until about 2 o'clock that
night. l was sleeping in bamboo shack
In banana plantation about two miles
from our regular troops, with Lieuten-
ants Chadwick and Geiger, guarded only
by small company OF Macabebes. About
midnight we were awakened by a sound OF
firing. The officers sprang from their beds
and Chadwick said: Those guns are REM
ingtons! The camp must be attacked by
insurrectosv -
are right across the river and they will be
here In a momentw
AS he said this there was another VOL
ley, and then a third. Geiger lit match
to find his shoes and Chadwick d.
him and knocked 1t out. saving he would
draw the fire to our shack. I crawled
around In the dark to find my shoes and
clothes, for was in my pajamas and a
fair mark for bolos.
At this moment a soldier came to the
coor and said that he had heard terrible
screams down the river and that he thought
the guards must be attacked by bolo men,
We dressed rapidly and took our re-
volvers and started out. There was no
further firing, however, and after a walk
through the bananas in the Immediate
vicinity Of the hut we went back to
bed. The next day we discovered that
a band Of ladrones had assaulted and mas
sacred some peasants across the river not
three hundred yards from where we were
and from where they could easily have
shot us while we slept. They must have
been near the banks of the river when we
came up in the boat, and in the dusk could
easily have shot at US and gotten away.
II is such things that make one uneasy
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