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Marching with Gomez
and rolled cigarettes for themselves, while Firmin
sidled back to the kitchen.
After breakfast, forks and spoons and plates were
given to the asistentes to be washed, and books and
papers were spread once more over the tables.
Cisneros returned to his own room, and the Cabinet divided itself among the remaining chambers,
one of which served as the Department of War,
another the Department of Finance, and a third the
Department of Foreign Affairs. A few busy letter-
copiers resumed scribbling in the main hall, and
others took to their hammocks on the porches for
a morning nap.
The only excitement of the afternoon was the
departure of a despatch bearer to one of the smaller
towns, where he had means of entering and purchasing things through an arrangement with a corrupt
Spanish colonel of the garrison. He could buy
encargos and bring them back, and the young
officers of the staff wrote their orders on little stray
slips of paper. I wrote one that was typical of the
rest. It read as follows : —
4
pounds
coffee.
2
pounds
sugar.
4
bundles
of cigars.
2
quarts
rum.
I
pound
chocolate.
I gave the despatch bearer a gold piece to cover
purchases, and proportional expense of corrupting
the Spanish colonel, and that was the last I saw of
| 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 | 00000273 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 228 Marching with Gomez and rolled cigarettes for themselves, while Firmin sidled back to the kitchen. After breakfast, forks and spoons and plates were given to the asistentes to be washed, and books and papers were spread once more over the tables. Cisneros returned to his own room, and the Cabinet divided itself among the remaining chambers, one of which served as the Department of War, another the Department of Finance, and a third the Department of Foreign Affairs. A few busy letter- copiers resumed scribbling in the main hall, and others took to their hammocks on the porches for a morning nap. The only excitement of the afternoon was the departure of a despatch bearer to one of the smaller towns, where he had means of entering and purchasing things through an arrangement with a corrupt Spanish colonel of the garrison. He could buy encargos and bring them back, and the young officers of the staff wrote their orders on little stray slips of paper. I wrote one that was typical of the rest. It read as follows : — 4 pounds coffee. 2 pounds sugar. 4 bundles of cigars. 2 quarts rum. I pound chocolate. I gave the despatch bearer a gold piece to cover purchases, and proportional expense of corrupting the Spanish colonel, and that was the last I saw of |
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