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the energetic measures taken to meet the situation 

 on the Isthmus and that 6,000 men were about to 

 be sent thither. 



Quotations like the above could be multiplied 

 indefinitely. Suffice it to say that it was notorious 

 that revolutionary trouble of a serious nature was 

 impending upon the Isthmus. But it was not nec- 

 essary to rely exclusively upon such general means 

 of information. On October 15 Commander Hub- 

 bard, of the navy, notified the Navy Department 

 that, though things were quiet on the Isthmus, a 

 revolution had broken out in the State of Cauca. 

 On October 16, at the request of Lieutenant-General 

 Young, I saw Capt. C. B. Humphrey and Lieut. 

 Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, who had just re- 

 turned from a four months' tour through the north- 

 ern portions of Venezuela and Colombia. They 

 stopped in Panama on their return in the latter part 

 of September. At the time they were sent down 

 there had been no thought of their going to Pan- 

 ama, and their visit to the Isthmus was but an 

 unpremeditated incident of their return journey ; nor 

 had they been spoken to by any one at Washington 

 regarding the possibility of a revolt. Until they 

 landed at Colon they had no knowledge that a revo- 

 lution was impending, save what they had gained 

 from the newspapers. What they saw in Panama 

 so impressed them that they reported thereon to 

 Lieutenant-General Young, according to his memo- 

 randum 

 that while on the Isthmus they became satisfied be- 



