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old member oi‘ my troop) telegraph the Quartermaster at Camp Overton for the launch 
in order that they could return. The sending them back being at the advice of 
Dr. Coffin. 
We marched this day about eight miles getting into the Subano country and made 
camp on Maquinagay river near the rancher ia of Bat to Danunto . 
On talking with 
him through Gallardo, wh6 is a good interpreter, it was ascertained that Americans 
had been to this place before. 
At this camp I '"'fas struck with immense . leaves of the Elephant’s ear plants 
growing about, and one which was measured was 7-| feet long by 4 feet 7 inches wide. 
June 15th: After about 2u hours* march we came to the rancharia of Catagan, 
E& t, to Ariib, and rested here for about one hour. 
It mieht be of interest to state that from this place on no civilized man had 
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ever before trodden, and. that the people are all Subano s until Cumularang, near 
Dumaquilae Bay was reached. The people of Cumularang are Maguindanao Moros, and 
the town being so near the bay had been visited before our advent by the Spaniards 
and an American official or two, though we were the first United States soldiers 
there. 
Anib volunteered to accompany us to Malindang as a guide and we proceeded 
on our journey camping this night on the Malubug River making a distance of i miles 
fer the day* The travel was now hard as it was in the mountains. 
At this camp one of the cargodores found a poor grade of honey made by b-es 
considerably smaller than ordinary house flies. 
June 16th: Our march was a hard one, up, up, up, as we were ascending one 
of the highest peaks in the Philippines, and also one on which no white man had 
ever before been. At 2:00 P. M. we made a dry camp at an altitude of about 7000 
feet and I calculate that we marched only about 5 m i le s this day, this on account 
of our rough and steep route. On this mountain there were many immense trees the 
