flag."

This permission to destroy the Turkish navy single-handed strikes
one as more than generous, for the Cretans had no navy, and
before one could begin the destruction of a Turkish gun-boat it was
first necessary to catch it and tie it to a wharf.

At the close of the Cretan insurrection MacIver crossed to Athens
and served against the brigands in Kisissia on the borders of
Albania and Thessaly as volunteer aide to Colonel Corroneus, who
had been commander-in-chief of the Cretans against the Turks.
MacIver spent three months potting at brigands, and for his
services in the mountains was recommended for the highest Greek
decoration.

From Greece it was only a step to New York, and almost
immediately MacIver appears as one of the Goicouria-Christo
expedition to Cuba, of which Goicouria was commander-in-chief,
and two famous American officers, Brigadier-General Samuel C.
Williams was a general and Colonel Wright Schumburg was chief
of staff.

In the scrap-book I find "General Order No. 11 of the Liberal Army
of the Republic of Cuba, issued at Cedar Keys, October 3, 1869."
In it Colonel MacIver is spoken of as in charge of officers not
attached to any organized corps of the division. And again:

"General Order No. V, Expeditionary Division, Republic of Cuba,
on board _Lilian_," announces that the place to which the
expedition is bound has been changed, and that General Wright