The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1905-10-12
Regros island.

were to be had for few cents. A large
bunch Of delicious bananas containing
twenty or more, cost but cent; cocoa
nuts cost nothing, in fact everything
that is required by one living on the
island is furnished by nature. Beauti-
full birds, monkeys, squirrels, caribous,
swine and goats are to be seen every
where. Every one attends the cock
fights and dances. During the holidays
the religious PROFESSIONS, which begin
at Thanksgiving and continue until
after Easter, are wonderful sight,
grand pageant, one worth going miles
to see.
One more thing I must mention here,
is that there are acres of ant hills,
which rise from three to seven feet
above the ground. They proved to be
equal to, or better than, the water cure,
when we wished contrary native to
confess his past devilment. While
roaming through the market 1 had
many opportunities to become ac-
quainted with their habits, in fact, if I
had not been detailed for detached
service when was, believe would
have become part native myself, for of
the many kinds of native dishes that
were prepared in that place, I could
manage to punish any of them, guinea
moos included, but just then corpor-
al and fifteen privates were to leave
on detached service, being one of the
privates. We were to take two days
rations consisting of canned salmon
and hard-tack, with little coffee and
leave under light marching orders for
Siaton, a small village on the extreme
southeastern part of the island, about
thirty miles distant. Our corporal
stopped us on the outskirts of the
town where we emptied our canteens
of the coffee and refilled them with
TUDOR, knowing that we would then be
able to hike better and quicker. A
| low uOuIo AoCOA WO ollIVOu at Ooy0yOu
where we had short rest, refilIed ouI
canteens, with tubor) and made
another start We arrived at Suma.
guete early in the evening, weary after
our days march. When say weary ]
wish to impress you with the fac,
that we had covered sixteen miles dur
ing the day with our rifles, two hun
dred rounds of ammunition and Other
equipments, in all about sixty pounds
and this in boiling hot sun, with oul
feet sinking several inches in the sane
at each step. l can now almost fee
the load of lead as it seemed to rest or
my hips that evening. Our feet were
in terrible condition, caused by sani
working through our leggings.
! Upon our arrival, our corporal sen
a muchacho to inform the president,
of our presence in his town and re
quest him to give us the use of th'
convent. He soon made his appearance
and when requested to open the con
vent, refused to do so. Our clay-eatin,
chief asked the corporal what h
meant by such request, and was in
formed that if we were not in the con
vent within one minute, he would pil
him (the presidente) to the door wit
his bayonet. This brought the desires
result, and we were upstairs within
few moments.
Il About ten o'clock we turned in afte
: placing sentries at the front and bac
. of the convent and third over tn
/ presidente, who we kept with us owe
! night. At that time it was commo
? occurrence to hear Of our men bein
D assassinated while asleep, and as
]. safeguard we placed a running guar
t on whenever possible. The next morI
d ing we were all sore and stiff from ou
8 previous days work, but we had
q march on, as we had only sixteen mile
: more to make. We crossed for
d streams shoulder deep and climbed tv
|, steep hills before we arrived at Siatol
4 Here our reception was very differel
from what It had been at Sumaguet
% The inhabitants, numbering abol
% four thousand, turned out on masse