The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-23

very liresome and trying fer our crafts
w.re small and had y BE- propelled in the
OLD style of padding. which is fsr,Iliar
u The Indians Of olden times On our
wy to Basey We had two OF our canoes
10 swamp ard four wounded men and one
able bodied man were drowned. IA tho
canoe in which ! reached Basey thsrs
were - men. two of whom had lied on
the way from the scene Of the massacre.
We lsfr Baianziga about O'Clock on
Saturday and about o'clock sunday
morning we arrived in Basey. showing 10
YOU how iofg it took Us and what endur-
ance it must have been. without water
food or rest. ard besides weak from loss
of blood. Not one man out of seventy
one Al Bslanziga escaped without a slight
injury. and most Of Them Were severely
wounded.
Yes tie war is over in the F. I.
don't think. To tie people who are not
in this dreadful place it seems cruel the
way We treat these people. but I think I
would be satisfied TO go cut here and be-
gin with the first hombre j see and Kill
them IS / come TO them.
There VIII never De q government es-
tablished here until this generation is
wiped of the face of the earth: ara Then
it viii not be safe to so cBt without YOUR
gun on yog. just as it used 70 De in
the west, as The eastern people think.
Well. nevertheless. If the war is ever
the Ninth Regulars rose a man almost
every day CO L" of this regiment
went on a two-days hike ana had one
man shot through the Heart the 18th "
last month TIE black scounlrels win
not light They simply hre d hot or
strike one blow with bolo. as the case
nav lee. and rs for their dirty lives.
They sc. no quarter from the Ninth
though.
There vas a native scout told one Of
our men that A negro told him that there
would be few OF the Ninth reach The
states alive. sud they seem successful in
carrying out their threat. for in the last
TWO or thre months the Ninth has lost
very heavily But this does net discour-
ase Is IN the least Although life is
sweet We give Il FOR the cause We think
is right
Ssmar as I have seen IT, Is gust
bunch OF mountains. almost impossible.
ami among them live 81 tribe or neoplc
must can ssvases. Although snere vss
ore officer who tod tie soldiers thar
they were our little brown friends. Z
Would pits them II they tried tn make
friends with NE III the mountains for
would 7ut them where thcs would Dee
buenc" loIlhr7s I rot very loa- aS1
heard n Doctor sly that the only good
PHILIPPINES were dead ones. a13 shat Is
Wfat ] think tce. are il IS my Po'icy %
MAKE them All Eo,sl- I ;hi-k Il the soi-
5iers were ONLY turned loose ovs- here
that the lsssrrrecticn wol.id soon cease. I
tfink the people OF this gisce~.re treated I,
too soed. and as long a. eoo1 treatment I
continues so long VIII eonunue she IN
surrcctior
This letter + not written from heais3y I
hut from what I actually have seen since /
ny soIourn in TITS island ana cssers /
which I have seen.
arr yours trliIy
Corporal E,ihers p peGnaennsa I
c.. &C. STA Infantry. 4
Calhas.ts- Sallar. - i
a Survivor II ~ massatrf ~ CO. q. /.
9Th Infantry. az BslaaziEa- Sarrsv. p. 81 !
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