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108 Marching with Gomez
chete wounds, and was thickened and stiffened with
dried blood. The shoes and hat had been removed,
if not by the Spanish soldiers, by the poor people
living in the neighborhood, who never allow such
relics to go to waste. Another pacifico, I was told,
lay in the canes near by, but I did not have time to
look for him.
I saw the grave of M. Duarte and that of his
secretary, for after the massacre took place a Spanish
officer had given orders to bury them near the ruins
of their cottages. The remains of eleven of the
twenty-two victims were as I have described them,
and will so continue until the Spanish Government
sees fit to remove them, or so long as the insurgent
government chooses to preserve them as a relic of
the war; for protected from the moisture of the
rainy season by the cover above, they will be preserved in the pure warm air for an indefinite period
of time.
I have been told that a brother of M. Duarte has
presented the case to the French Consul, and that
disavowal of the assassination, with a comfortable
solace to the nearest of kin, is likely to follow.
I made it a point, in riding over the Island, to
inquire, in every district, about the latest Spanish
atrocities. The answer always was like this : —
" There were five pacificos macheted outside of the
town last week ! Two weeks ago ten were shot! "
Often bodies of pacificos, of all ages, obviously
laborers and farmers, lying in the canes on estates
where insurgents were supposed to have camped, or
thrown in the brush by the roadside, proved these
statements. Even at this time, when there was
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000145 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 108 Marching with Gomez chete wounds, and was thickened and stiffened with dried blood. The shoes and hat had been removed, if not by the Spanish soldiers, by the poor people living in the neighborhood, who never allow such relics to go to waste. Another pacifico, I was told, lay in the canes near by, but I did not have time to look for him. I saw the grave of M. Duarte and that of his secretary, for after the massacre took place a Spanish officer had given orders to bury them near the ruins of their cottages. The remains of eleven of the twenty-two victims were as I have described them, and will so continue until the Spanish Government sees fit to remove them, or so long as the insurgent government chooses to preserve them as a relic of the war; for protected from the moisture of the rainy season by the cover above, they will be preserved in the pure warm air for an indefinite period of time. I have been told that a brother of M. Duarte has presented the case to the French Consul, and that disavowal of the assassination, with a comfortable solace to the nearest of kin, is likely to follow. I made it a point, in riding over the Island, to inquire, in every district, about the latest Spanish atrocities. The answer always was like this : — " There were five pacificos macheted outside of the town last week ! Two weeks ago ten were shot! " Often bodies of pacificos, of all ages, obviously laborers and farmers, lying in the canes on estates where insurgents were supposed to have camped, or thrown in the brush by the roadside, proved these statements. Even at this time, when there was |
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