instructions to have the operator ( an old member of my troop) 
telegraph the Quartermaster at Camp Overton for the launch in 
order that they could return-The sending them back being at the 
adivce of Dr. Coffin. 
We marched this day about eight miles getting into the 
Subano country and. made camp on Maquinagay river near the ranch- 
eria of Ratto Danunto. On talking with him through callardo, who 
is a good interpreter, it was ascertained that Americans had been 
to this place before. 
At this cam I was struck with immense . leaves of the Ele¬ 
phant's ear plants growing about, and one which was measured was 
7i feet long by 4 feet 7 inches wide. 
June 15th: Aster about 2-J hours march we came to the ranch- 
aria of Catagan, Datto Anib, and rested here for about one hour. 
It might be of* interest to state that from this place on no 
civilized man had ever before trodden, and that the people are all 
Subanos until Cumularang near Dumaquilas 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 out tourney camping this night on the Malubug 
river making a distance of 7 miles for 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 bees 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 miles this day, this on account of 
our rough and steep route. On this mountain there were many im¬ 
mense trees the resin of which copal, has a gigh commercial 
value, being used in the making of varnish. 
