[27] Of course my host’s name was not Jones, but Jones will do.

[28] Spanish for man.

[29] A Philippine campaign expression for losing one’s nerve and wanting to quit.

[30] Otis’s Report, p. 133.

[31] War Dept. Report, 1899, vol. i., pt. 5, p. 35. In this handsome commendation General Lawton also included Maj. Charles G. Starr, one of the best all-round soldiers I ever knew.

[32] See Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, vol. ii., pp. 1068 et seq.

[33] Otis’s Report, p. 115.

[34] An interesting account of this experience is given by General Funston himself in the October, 1911, number of Scribner’s Magazine, in an article entitled “From Malolos to San Fernando.”

[35] Otis’s Report, p. 136.

[36] War Dept. Report, 1899, vol. i., pt. 4, p. 138.