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fast for the men, and that over fifty have fallen out 

 from exhaustion." Wood replied sharply: "I have 

 no time to bother with sick men now." You re- 

 plied, more in answer, I suppose, to his tone than 

 to his words : "I merely repeated what the surgeon 

 reported to me." Wood then turned and said in 

 explanation: "I have no time for them now; I 

 mean that we are in sight of the enemy." 



This was the only information we received that 

 the men of L Troop had been ambushed by the 

 Spaniards, and, if they were, they were very calm 

 about it, and I certainly was taking photographs 

 of them at the time, and the rest of the regiment, 

 instead of being half an hour's march away, was 

 seated comfortably along the trail not twenty feet 

 distant from the men of L Troop. You deployed 

 G Troop under Captain Llewellen into the jungle 

 at the right and sent K Troop after it, and Wood 

 ordered Troops E and F into the field on our left. 

 It must have been from ten to fifteen minutes after 

 Capron and Wood had located the Spaniards be- 

 fore either side fired a shot. When the firing did 

 come I went over to you and joined G Troop and 

 a detachment of K Troop under Woodbury Kane, 

 and we located more of the enemy on a ridge. 



If it is to be ambushed when you find the enemy 

 exactly where you went to find him, and your 

 scouts see him soon enough to give you sufficient 

 time to spread five troops in skirmish order to at- 

 tack him, and you then drive him back out of 

 three positions for a mile and a half, then most 

 certainly, as Bonsai says, "L Troop of the Rough 



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