Ny years. For their loved ones will never return again To greet them
through life's pleasant way, For they are laying in the grass-covered
graves where they fell, And are sleeping long ages away. But though
death has overtaken those heroes so brave Who fell for their Country's
fame, Yet their memory shall always live on the breasts Of their
comrades, whom they perished to save. THE BATTLE OF MACIU. A MUCH NEEDED
REST. The troops were given five days in which to rest and recuperate,
for the reader can easily imagine the hardships, privations, and
sufferings which are undergone by soldiers while on the march,
especially where there are no roads of any description, save the narrow,
rugged, and, in many places, impassable trails, which are met with all
through the island of Mindanao. Therefore it was practically necessary
that, after six days of continual marching through the thick brush of
this island, they should be given ample time in which to attain that
standard of physique which is th
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