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Updated: July 24, 2025
Officers of the U. S. Asiatic Squadron: Acting Rear Admiral George Dewey, commander-in-chief; Commander B. P. Lamberton, chief of staff; Lieut. T. M. Brumby, flag lieutenant; Ensign H. H. Caldwell, secretary.
But the Wet was to be devoted to the building of a strong holding-yard, a "trap," and a "wing," so as to be able to get going directly the Wet lifted; and knowing the run well, and the extent of the brumby mobs on it, Mac then and there set to work to calculate the "sized mob" that could be "got together after the Wet," listening with interest to the account of our brumby encounters out east.
Ye'll maybe know him Jim Gray; big, slab-sided chap he is, with his nose sorter twisted like, where a y brumby colt kicked him when he was a kid. y good thing for him it was a brumby, or unshod, anyway; he'd a' bin in Queer Street else, I'm thinkin'. Jever meet him down that way? I admitted that I never had, but promised to look out for him. 'Aye, ye might, said the bullocky.
I order him off duty, and shall recommend him within twenty minutes to the P.M.O. for leave of absence at his own expense. If you know of any general who dares override the P.M.O. I'll show you a brass hat in the wind. Come on; d'you want to bet on it?" "Will the P.M.O. fall?" asked Grim. "Like a new chum off a brumby. Signs anything I shove under his nose.
Meanwhile, according to arrangement, the moment the white flag was shown, General Merritt, who occupied the steamer Zafiro as temporary corps headquarters, sent General Whittier, with Flag Lieutenant Brumby, ashore to meet the captain general and discuss first a plan of capitulation.
“A division of the squadron shelled the forts and entrenchments at Malate, on the south side of the city, driving back the enemy, our army advancing from that side at the same time. “The city surrendered about five o’clock, the American flag being hoisted by Lieutenant Brumby. “About seven thousand prisoners were taken. “The squadron had no casualties, and none of the vessels were injured.
Lieutenant Brumby, immediately after the terms of capitulation had been signed, hurried off to lower the Spanish flag in reality to lower all Spain's flags in the Philippines by taking down one. He was accompanied by two signal men from the Olympia. This little party found its way after great difficulty into Fort Santiago in the northern portion of the walled city.
So long as we could do so, we must take Tommy with us, who might yet be saved. This, however, was not to be, for on the 28th we again encountered sand-ridges, running at right angles to our course, and these proved too hard for the poor brave brumby. About midday he at last gave in, and with glazed eyes and stiff limbs he fell to the ground.
Brumby horses being one of the problems of the run, and the destruction of brumby stallions imperative, as the nigger-hunt was apparently off, the brumby mob proved too enticing to be passed by, and for an hour and more it kept us busy, the Maluka and Dan being equally "set on getting a stallion or two."
My uncle the Bishop had his shovels there: and they used for a considerable period to cover this humble roof with tiles," said F. B., tapping his capacious forehead; "I am sure he might have had Brumby," he added, in his melancholy tones, "but for those unlucky lies. She didn't want money. She had plenty. She longed to get into society, and was bent on marrying a gentleman.
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