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n! , d0 a photograph of Capt. Me Coy, Col. Herbord, and myself, which he 
sent me later from Hong hong . 
Command marched from Camp Vicars to Sauir on Lake Lenao. 
April 2p 1904# 
The country t». mostly cogonals, -nth patches of bamboo and cultivated 
Contract Surgeon Connor distributed one Hospital Corps men to 
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each organization and kept the rest, except my orderly, with him, attached 
to Captain Cray’s command. , 
1 acquired, at Vicars, a private Moro cargadore named Mah-bah- tin-dig, 
a name that soon became familiar in the camps. At Sauir ducks were 
numerous when I first arrived and some fine mallards were shot and recovered 
by Mahat indig. While we were eating our ducks, at Sauir, tno -rot , 
firing on our camp, about sundown, and wounded two soldiers, one slightly, 
the other severely, Nathan Earned, Art if. Co. "E", 23rd Infantry, Age. 39; 
B. P. Pa.; Service 7 1/12; G. S. W. Remington, 45; Thorax, left side, severe; 
ballet palpable under skin over ribs in axillary line; 3 ribs fractured. 
This soldier was transferred to Marahui , v<i.thout : - Dei8r * 
I wrote the 
following order: 
Private Edgar L. Rook, Hosp. Corps, will accompany patient Artificer 
Nathan Earned, Co. "H", 2Srd Infantry (Bonnicastle’s) to camp at Taraca 
River (across Lake Wo), reporting to Commanding Officer, presenting 
General Wood’s compliments, and requesting that pa tie tit be t. ens or ted, 
properly guarded, to hospital at Camp Marahui, as soon as practicable. 
No Moro boats should be allowed to approach en route to T *rec* River, 
and the vinta used should be kept well off snore. 
"By command of Ma j . Genl. Woou, 
” Langhorne , 
"Chief Staff." 
This man finally recovered. 
