

unfed to make her 

 rip with war suppliea. but wa* .1 



third (rip. t .t wa* 



roe FrirmU" was again pre- 



iii taking n 



eeeding on a w taking on buanl at 



nition. Proceeding around thr . < ul*. 



she attni.t 



the San Juan was flred u|n b* 



-h |mtn>l b..t*. The Ore was returned, and 

 image the fllibutr made her escape. 



rida mid wa* U 

 * day* later thr Daunt- 

 less 



authorities, who had 



notified by UM legation 



time UM eraser- Isabella 1 1 "arrived from Porto 

 Hico, under order* of the Governor Geoer 



Bermuda " then sailed to Port Antonio, Ja~ 



re she was detained by the eath* 

 g expected that her 



. On May 30 the tuf - Al 

 the schooner" John D.Umg. 

 .j-h... and met the 



tppaaoui -uville, picked up tv 



ion . MM conveyed 



Cuba, Ian lla*. 



-?. the steamer -Uurada" again 

 Bade a successful trip with Carlos Koloff in com- 

 nian-t ' 40 men with an 



important cargo of munition* and 



iea, tak.nv 

 place thr.-.- lines of torpedoes in the entrance to 



<ise there should u . 



torn. point seemed to be )<-fi in the pos- 



s**si< rebels, but whm thr authorities in 



ftmjfc tjsJail Bate iby !> >| .u, ,- >. On bei 

 return the -Laurada" was libeled in Wilmii 

 On March 8 another expedition wa- y the 



steamer " Monarch " in IVn^i ', was de- 



tained twice b> Mnrblrhead."and the 



\fi.-r the failure of 

 went to sea an 



in the Gulf, took on board an -\ 



(fortla, I 



in ilrbarking in I'inar <1- r iwrt 



of the cargo waa captured by the Spaniards a 



MfHinrr - 



an-h " mailr h-r thinl trip t Cuba. < >n h-r n-tnrn 



el was to take an i-\| -hti. n u In. h was be- 



prepared at Miami, ami. hitting receiTtsl in- 



that .he wotihi ronl at llahiit H.-n.la, the 



nutli advine<l to m-nd a 



> tailed her there and brought her t<> 

 '' 



Th- ptijuner - Hermuda," having secured .1 nen 

 register in Halifax, attnnpi*-*! t<> H-IM in tf 



.n that carried Koloff to Cuba, Feb. 27. 

 MinM in - 



militia, but *n> n*>i per- 

 il hi-r rnptain hnl male 



oath I hut ho woiilil m.t tnke part in nny fllibustar* 

 an oath i-l taken I 



On April :i. uj-.n rompUtnt 



consul in JackM>nville. t! 



.-" seiied N" whirh 



^ the -Ilermuda" with ttl ami pro- 



ttter was not wind because she was 



1 tln thnt-mil.- limit. The rteanirr whirl. 



wa to tako thr nr lb*rniiida** was 



warned whih> lyinc at Femamlina, as were aim 



Sanp.. 



consequence none of them joined the - llcnnu-in." 



ttfcaoQTiUt ,n a |wial train for Palm lleach. 



".' niifhonrji-H were mUi^il that ' 

 waitiiif; at thr 

 Cted. Afterwani Kmilio NuAex lanlel from the 



i by the healf 



" Hcnn u< i MOind several dars. 



loaded with coal and provisions* nd ailiMl 

 ana, where she was searched by the ttominican 



w supplies, 



.untie*" 

 made l w o i MI*, to ( 'uba. landing her cargo sueoess- 



fliibosteting trip, but. bring iiiirnsil by the 



. ovcrtrd her cargo and was 



red. The last reported filiburfr 



n wa* tha , 



the " Dauntless." 



II. o.banJaata rk. M to the belief 



that Mai 



landed for what 

 they supposed would be the fall oampaigB. This is 



the expeditioo laodeToo the Han Jaaii river, 

 whi. -h was in charge of one Betaocourt. who re- 

 n wa% UndM to allow 

 r Fmlericks to fire and ctnk 

 lnih patn.l Ut. which came into tf 



means -of collecting in a sbor 



of money necessary to send to Cuba in the next 



months arms and munitions of war in the 



possible quantity." In ignorance of 



E >:.",:. U 



sugar in-: uba as a means of 



fund*, nn.: lifth a decree in UK 



ng work on the comiag 



crop in Cuba.* 4 Then it was proposed to permit 

 secretly M the least possible number of plantation*; 

 I." imposing upon them a tax of -50 cents 

 for each bag of sugar worked out, paid in advance 

 immediate! v in American money." It was also 

 provided tfiat planters who had previously made 

 sugar in violation of the decree should be forced to 

 pay at the rate of 50 cents a bag for thr 



. . . :, ;-.. ,.;.. f 



.- 



making 



another crop: and to all planters who re- 

 thcee decrees the 



tee, in the name of the refmBfeT" (fte reepert of 



ihan force* f,, r their property and the protec- 

 ting the crop and the prepa- 

 v to grind I , lat< . \ ^ -. J 

 vj. IBM 3 KM . ... Kaj -. bfl 

 Estrada Palma. it was declared that " o 



nee is used to supply TOO with arm* and am 

 on. Prom the 81st of June to the 6th of Julv 



. - .- .-- . -. ;...-' ' . .-, .- , 



400 Mansers, nearly 2.000 pounds of 



. -. ... ,. ...... 



i to pieces against the scarcity of fund 

 which threaten^ state of affairs 



we most solve the problem in this way : The cam- 

 paign of the approaching dry season may U deci- 

 sive in our .r army should find itself well 

 provided with arm* and ammunition. In this case 

 the enemy's army, so far from training the least ad- 

 vantage, would suffer considerable losses, and them 

 when the end of the campaign arrives with no fa- 



