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form by squadron or battalion, the troopers sitting 

 steadily in the saddles as they made their half-trained 

 horses conform to the movement of the guidons. 



Over in Tampa town the huge winter hotel was 

 gay with general officers and their staffs, with women 

 in pretty dresses, with newspaper correspondents by 

 the score, with military attaches of foreign powers, 

 and with onlookers of all sorts; but we spent very 

 little time there. 



We worked with the utmost industry, special at- 

 tention being given by each troop-commander to 

 skirmish-drill in the woods. Once or twice we had 

 mounted drill of the regiment as a whole. The mili- 

 tary attaches came out to look on English, German, 

 Russian, French, and Japanese. With the English- 

 man, Captain Arthur Lee, a capital fellow, we soon 

 struck up an especially close friendship; and we saw 

 much of him throughout the campaign. So we did 

 of several of the newspaper correspondents Rich- 

 ard Harding Davis, John Fox, Jr., Caspar Whitney, 

 and Frederic Remington. On Sunday Chaplain 

 Brown, of Arizona, held service, as he did almost 

 every Sunday during the campaign. 



There were but four or five days at Tampa, how- 

 ever. We were notified that the expedition would 

 start for destination unknown at once, and that we 

 were to go with it; but that our horses were to be 

 left behind, and only eight troops of seventy men 



