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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
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ight when I was ambushed by a squad of the enemy.I had no idea any one was near when I was challenged and heard the click oftheir rifle-locks. I knew I was captured, and I said in Spanish I surrender.I told them that I was on my way to the Spanish lines to give up, and I stuck tothe story. They believed it. I was taken to Puerto Piincipe and tried by amilitary commission. I was very decently treated and released on parole.I worked my way to Havana and sought General Lee. I was in the uniformof a rebel, and was a pretty seedy looking specimen. The Spaniards staredat me on the streets, and a gang of kids followed me around shouting, ■Mam-beciaX^ which means rebel. No one bothered me, though. I dropped intoGeneral Lees office, and he sized me up with the remark: Are you a rebel?I said I was. Well, said he, I was a rebel thirty-five years ago, but Inever was as tough looking as you are. I had no money and he furnishedme funds to buy clothes and get to New York. I had not time to wait to
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306 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. have a suit of clothes made, and the only thing I could buy was an ice-creamsuit, straw hat and tan shoes. I landed in New York on Janiiary 10, 1898,rigged out in that outfit. It was very cold and I was a curiosity. There is very little danger from yellow fever, said Colonel Funston.There was some of it in the Spanish camps when I was in Cuba, but therewas little of it among the Cubans, Malaria and dysentery is what playedhavoc with the Spaniards. They drink rum and eat fruit, and the two com-bined in the Cuban climate will kill anybody. The Americans must leaverUm alone when they go to Cuba. They must take the advice of those whohave been there on this point. It will not do to use liquor, especially withthe fruit. The Spaniards have Jamaica rum, and when they go out on themarch nearly every fellow stows away a quart or more among his effects.Marching through the country they find the lucious mangos and bananaswith other fine Cuban fruits. Many times the

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