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is spent on water, as they are constant
ly visiting the neighboring islands.
Leaving the coast you find the forests
to be all but impossible, having many
valuable varieties of trees such as
ebony, palm, teak, cotton, and bamboo,
all of which are surrounded by dense
underground. Large spiders of the
tarantula type are very numerous.
Lizards of many sizes and colors are
to be found; the ones most familiar to
the soldier being those which constant
ly emit the call suck ou" just as you
are dropping asleep.
Monkeys and numerous birds of
beautiful plumage help to make this
island paradise. Dates, figs, bananas,
mangos and cocoanuts, in addition to
fish, chicken and rice, afford the main
source of sustenance to the natives.
Vino and TUDOR are drinks In COM
mon use on this island, but unlike the
Visayans who seldom drank vino, and
then sparingly, the Moros would drink
of it until madness would ensue, when
they would leave on one of their pirat-
ical expeditions. 1t was with the saw
age tribes who inhabited the interior
of the island that we had to deal.
Constant hiking against these hos
tile Moros during which time we par
ticipated in several engagements,
always without success, seemed to
have the effect of making us more de-
termined than ever to succeed. I'm
like the Visayans they would not cry
I"Amigo" when we found them, but
would prepare to fight at once. Our
krags gave US the advantage so far as
shooting was concerned, but had we
permitted them to get within close
range, their bOlOs, swords, spears and
other weapons would have done much
damage. These bands would go on
expeditions for plunder, and if success
full, would treat those they captured
with cruelty, after which they would
kill the males and take the females for
slaves. The jungles, all but impenetra-
BILE with their numerous ravines and
steep hills, offered extraordinary ia
cilities for evading their pursuers, and
when you consider the immense amount
of nerve or fortitude that they possess
} when suffering or misfortune befalls
them, you can imagine few of
the many difficulties that we had to
overcome in order to convince them
that our Uncle Samuel meant bust.
ness. Quite often we would capture
several of them, but never could get
the information we desired. We would
then place some of them in the stocks
7 and the others would be escorted to
t the ant-hills, where the little red ants
would be permitted to playfully wan
8 der over their person, until the pa
8 tience of our officers would depart
and they would suggest the water-curt
D as last resort.
When advice, argument, entreaty
9 and milder forms of persuasion failed
r the water-cure generally proved sue
r cessful, the effect being such that th'
Q one undergoing treatment most alway
n saw fit to answer the question:
b asked at once, altho I have seen case
a where second application was nee
< essary, but these were rare. know o
d but two cases that tsiledito be affected
: by the "cure." They were sent to head
q quarters for other treatment.
r The "cure" may be applied in severa
d ways, but the method that our detach
q ment commander used, had been con
y sidered the mildest of all, and was tn
ir one in general use at that time. ]
IL was applied to the untamed an
10 fanatical savages in this manner.
gl The artful Moro would be placed i
d a sitting position with his head bent t
8, the rear; piece of bamboo about
y hslf inch IN diameter and a foot i
1T length would be forced into the uppe
If end of his esophagus, when a cantee
of water would be slowly emptied int
g. the bamboo. The bamboo being no
or low. the contents would pass throug
t. it and the esophagus, into the stomac
10 in very short time; the amount 4