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Updated: May 7, 2025
Here live the Governor of the province and the inspector of Constabulary with a detachment; their houses, with the cuartel and public offices, are disposed around a sort of parade, divided into an upper and a lower terrace. Aguinaldo marched through the place during his flight, and left behind seventeen of his men, sick and wounded. He had no sooner gone than these were all taken out and beheaded.
The next was to send and ask for an officer and twenty men from the Cuartel, on receiving which message the major commanding, standing on the dusty roadway in front of his men, grinned under his grizzled mustache and said, "Frost's got 'em again. Here, Gray, you go over and tell him to keep his hair on, that it's nothing but a fake alarm."
A pretty story for our troopers to tell when they get back to Albuquerque! I, Colonel commanding, will be the jest of the cuartel!" "Nothing of the kind, colonel! There is nothing to jest about. Your prisoner chanced to possess himself of your sword a thing no one could have anticipated. He did it adroitly, but then you were at the time unsuspecting.
Needless to say we were up betimes the next morning, May 2d, for the clans were to gather, and the day would hardly be long enough for all it was to hold. The day began ominously. As Kiangan is a sort of headquarters, it has a guard-house for the service of short imprisonments, a post-and-rail affair made of bamboo under the cuartel.
"And we, we will have charge of the attack on the cuartel, so that we can say to the members of the Guardia Civil that our father had sons." "How many will there be of you?" "Five! Five will be enough. Don Crisostomo's servant says that there will be twenty in all." "And if things don't turn out well?" "St!" said one, and they all became silent.
Unlike the pure Indians, they are a hot-blooded and excitable race, and drunkenness with them is utter madness while it lasts. Knives are drawn at the very beginning of a squabble, and scarcely an evening passes without one or two bodies of men killed in these drunken mêlées being carried to the Police Cuartel in the great square.
A colonel and a battalion of bare-toed infantry turned out and went back to the scene of the musicale with us, but the conspirator gang was gone. But we recaptured the phonograph with honours of war, and marched back to the cuartel with it playing 'All Coons Look Alike to Me. "The next day Mellinger takes me and Henry to one side, and begins to shed tens and twenties.
They babble of things which their employers would have kept secret, their tongues limbered by drams from square-shouldered greenish bottles, Dutch as dykes, which line the shelves behind the bar. The Cuartel is owned by a black man from Batavia who calls himself Vanderzee. His mother was a Kling.
The house, as already said, was a large, massive structure, having, like all Mexican dwellings of its class, a terraced roof, or azotea. What is also common enough in that country, it was surmounted by a mirador, or "belvedere." Standing less than half a mile distant from the soldier's cuartel, the commandant found it convenient to make use of it as his headquarters.
However, the really hard pressing came from the rear there were still the ax and spear and few soldiers from cuartel or trench who tried to bring food or water for the fighting men ever reported why they were delayed. At Caloocan, just outside Manila, they met the American Army early in February, 1899.
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