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During the forenoon the command moved down the Taraca valley. Major 
Maney's command diverging to the left, cavalry on the right bank, infantry 
and artillery on the left, the latter commanded by General Wood, I 
accompanied the middle column, and, at 9:30 A. M., saw a lusty, shaven More 
jar a ment a do leap from a ditch in front of us and attack a soldier, the last 
of the advance guard, whom he struck thrice with camp! Ian raised high 
end gleaming in the sunlight— -a grand sight# The soldier, though surprised, 
parried each blow successfully, and was wouMed only in the pants which 
dropped down around his legs. The More, who had long chin whiskers and 
was a fine physical specimen, was quickly shot, I took his new sarong, 
and his campilan was given to the soldier who was attacked. 
During the morning. Major Maney’s battalion had operated on the south, 
more or less rarallel to the Taraca River* He lost one man (Private Oliver 
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(?) Newcomfee of m K” Company, 17th Infantry (Hobbs’s), whose head was blown 
off as he scaled the wall of a More fort. Sergeant Lewis of the Hospital 
Corps had a campilan cut, delivered by s>. Moro Sultan, which severed the 
shoulder through clavicle and spinous process of scapula. Both were 
carried to Colon® 1 Mosses camp, Lewis is expected to recover (which he did). 
/Spril 6, 1904. Marched from Malungan to Galauan up the Taraca Vallyy, On the way 
I was slightly burned on the leg by a falling bamboo cinder, but chiefly 
injured in the pants and drawers, TThen v;e had followed the Left Fork of 
the Taraca River to a point further than which horsescould not be safely 
handled, the command halted, while a detachment was sent forward to destroy 
forts and houses. They saw 4- Moros entering the foothills who stopped to 
fight, but probably all escaped. I went out from Galauan, into an open 
marsh to shoot birds, and soon discovered tracks of fleeing Moros and at last 
the main trail of men, women, carabao and ponies, made by their beaten and 
retreating forces. I at once showed General Wood the main Moro trr ii, whic . 
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