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up three non who encoded in the affdir. He was given 10 minutes 
in which to do this. After 12 minutes* artillery firing began* 
followed by Infantry advanoe, and three cottas were entered and 
burned within 16 minutes, and the Patto killed. With the*? 
oottas 8till burning the column, at 12i45 continued to advance on 
Taraoa, At 4 P. M. we camped at Malungan, on the Taraoa River, 
after shelling the place and shooting it up with heavy Infantry fire. 
A number of oottas were taken and put to the torch after having 
been fired upon. There was a good deal of return firing, but no 
Amerioan was hit* 
April 6, 1904. Colonel Marion P. Maus, with two troops of the 14th Cavalry 
and two companies of the 22nd Infantry, from Camp Marahui, ar¬ 
rived from Pehtad for conference with Oonl. "Wood, at 6 A. M. 
He was accompanied by Major Bullard, governor of the Lake Lanao 
District. The 2 troops of oavalry joined Colonel Oerrard's squad¬ 
ron aorose ths Tnraca River. The two companies of Infantry aoted 
as escort to Colonel Maus, returning to his camp at Pehtad, The 
main a amp at Halungan (Ampuenako's cotta), on the Taraca “iver, 
wae broken up at 8 A. M., and the Taraca cottas were successively 
reduced and burned In the direction of Leke lanao. About toon 
the ootta of the Sultan of Taraoa was, and many others at 
the mouth of the river were taken and burned by General Wood's 
main ooluxan, while a oavalry advance was synchronously made ijPi 
on the right by Colonel Gerrerd's cavdlry, on the right bank 
of Taraca RiverJ While Major Maney's battalion paralleled these 
lines on the left, reducing many large oottas and meeting with 
considerable resiatanoe. His loss comprised one nak killed. 
