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Chapter I
The Man under the Hub
H
E is a gray little man. His
clothes do not fit well, and,
perhaps, if you saw it in a
photograph, his figure might
seem old and ordinary. But the moment he turns his keen eyes on you,
they strike like a blow from the shoulder. You feel the will, the fearlessness, and the experience of men that is
in those eyes, and their owner becomes
a giant before you.
He is a farmer by birth, the son of
a farmer, with an Anglo-Saxon tenacity
of purpose, and a sense of honor as
clean and true as the blade of his little Santo Domingo machete.
When the revolution broke out in Santo Domingo, he served as a lieutenant in the Spanish
army against the land of his birth, in her struggle
for independence.1 He was fighting for rank, I
have heard him say ; but the example of the Domin-
1 " Not so much to serve Spain as in reality to combat one of the many political
bands that in that time divided San Domingo, did General Gomez become one of
those that proclaimed the re-establishment of Spanish rule on that Island.'' So wrote
an eminent Cuban whom I questioned on this point.
119
' Gomez' little
Santo Domingo machete.''
| 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 | 00000156 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | Chapter I The Man under the Hub H E is a gray little man. His clothes do not fit well, and, perhaps, if you saw it in a photograph, his figure might seem old and ordinary. But the moment he turns his keen eyes on you, they strike like a blow from the shoulder. You feel the will, the fearlessness, and the experience of men that is in those eyes, and their owner becomes a giant before you. He is a farmer by birth, the son of a farmer, with an Anglo-Saxon tenacity of purpose, and a sense of honor as clean and true as the blade of his little Santo Domingo machete. When the revolution broke out in Santo Domingo, he served as a lieutenant in the Spanish army against the land of his birth, in her struggle for independence.1 He was fighting for rank, I have heard him say ; but the example of the Domin- 1 " Not so much to serve Spain as in reality to combat one of the many political bands that in that time divided San Domingo, did General Gomez become one of those that proclaimed the re-establishment of Spanish rule on that Island.'' So wrote an eminent Cuban whom I questioned on this point. 119 ' Gomez' little Santo Domingo machete.'' |
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