
MUNLING PHIEIPINGS: 
Lt. Gc. F: O'KEEFE, IST COLORADO INFANTRY. 
The campaign progresses just the same, 
notwithstanding the hot weather. At 
times the heat seems more than flesh and 
blood can stand, but somehow we 
“hunch” along and generally win. The 
natives on the South are putting up the 
hardest fight I have yet seen; but we shall 
different directions at once. Eternal vigi- 
lance is the price for breathing in this 
country. 
Our lines are now well extended, and 
we sweat blood trying to keep our work 
up. Sometimes we are obliged to return 
through a hostile country and that is par- 

PHOTO BY LIEUT. C. F O’KEEFE. 
THE AMERICAN FIRING LINE’AT MORONG. (Smokeless Powder.) 
The second and third men from the left have been hit, and are actually falling. 
get them eventually. There is some talk 
of our regiment going home soon, but 
I cannot tell where I shall go. I may not 
go with it. I may conclude to remain 
here and see the finish of this shooting 
match. Will send you a print whenever 
I have anything of interest. One never 
ticularly trying. It is wonderful though 
what chances a man will take on his life, 
for some trifling thing. I have seen 
men go after water, when it was almost 
a sure thing that some of them would 
pet ritee 
On a recent trip up the Rio Grande, 

' THE AMERICAN 
realizes the real blessings of peace until 
he has seen a year of such war as this. 
You get most damnably tired, sleeping 
with one eye open, keeping your back up 
against something solid, so no one can 
flank you, and trying to look in 5 or 6 
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PHOTO BY LIEUT C F. O’KEEFE. 
FIRING LINE. (Black Powder.) 
on the gunboat Covodonga, while pass- 
ing a point 100 natives raised up out 
of a blind trench on the bank, less than 
50 yards away, and poured a volley into the 
boat. They killed one of our gunners, 
but before they could fire again the rapid- 
