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MANILA UNDER THE AMERICANS. 
After leaving the Walled City I returned to the Club along the 
Lunetta sea front, passing a redoubt (marked by a black spot on the 
map) in which were two Krupp guns, about 9" or 10" calibre; whether 
either of these had been fired by the Spanish I was unable to discover. 
At the Club I met several officers of the Centurion , and we all returned 
to the ship together at 6*30 p.m. 
THe outposts. During the next two days most of my time was 
occupied in visiting the outpost lines. An order 
had been issued on board ship that no officers were to go beyond the 
American outpost line unless accompanied by a resident; I took this 
order to apply to myself also. I first procured a map of Manila and 
its surroundings, I also tried to obtain some photographs of the place 
and incidents of the war, but could get nothing, everything had 
been bought up. 
On Monday, 30th, I lunched with a British resident, who lived some 
distance outside Manila, at a suburb called St. Ana : he drove me out 
to his house ; it was an interesting drive because we drove out through 
the American lines into the Insurgents lines. He had a very com¬ 
fortable house situated on the river, where his wife and family seemed 
to be quite happy and not the least anxious about themselves. A 
large force of Insurgents were quartered close at hand ; the General 
occupied a house next door to their own. My host informed me that 
they were far less subjected to restrictions living among the Filipinos 
than the British subjects living in Manila. After lunch my host had 
to return to his office in Manila and I commenced my tour of the out¬ 
posts south of the Pasig river to Malate fort. 
From the left bank of the Pasig river the American outpost line 
runs along the left bank of a small stream, fordable by infantry at al¬ 
most any point on the outskirts of Pandacan and Paco. In the accom- 
danying map the American outpost line is shown thus ••-— .. — •• 
and the Insurgent line thus-. From Paco to Malate fort 
the line follows the track of a country road. The Insurgent line runs 
along the right bank of the stream as far as Paco and from there skirts 
the edge of the wooded country. Picquet patrols are employed by both 
parties with strong supports at the roads running in and out of Manila; 
where these roads are far apart, block houses are used for the supports, 
these were erected originally by the Spanish and some of them are 
now in the hands of the Americans and others occupied by the 
Insurgents. Between Paco and Fort Malate the Insurgents have put 
up look-out posts among the trees in the woods. About three-quarters 
of a mile out to sea from Fort Malate the Monitor Monadnoc is anchored 
to protect this flank. The Insurgent left rests on an old iron hulk 
stranded on the beach, the hulk is occupied by supports. When I visited 
t Malate fort I found an artillery subaltern in charge; 
Malate Fort * he showed me round the work—a redoubt built of 
masonry about the same date as the Walled City, probably originally in¬ 
tended to command the approaches from the south. A rifle gallery runs 
round the south and west fronts, this is now a good deal damaged by 
the recent bombardment. The walls show faint signs of ancient scars 
