whereabouts, and at three o'clock in the afternoon the man returned to
tell us that we were to join the General in the plaza. On arriving
there we found the column already drawn up in the order of march, and
an hour later we filed out of the town down the same street by which
we had entered it that morning, and were cheered by the same people
who eight hours before had been firing upon us. We left five hundred
of Garcia's men to garrison the place and prevent the townspeople from
again changing their sympathies, and continued on toward Tegucigalpa
with Garcia and the remainder of his force as our main body, and with
the Legion in the van. We were a week in reaching Comyagua, which was
the only place that we expected would offer any resistance until we
arrived outside of the capital. During that week our march was exactly
similar to the one we had made from the camp to Santa Barbara. There
was the same rough trail, the jungle crowding close on either flank,
the same dusty villages, the same fierce heat. At the villages of
Tabla Ve and at Seguatepec our scouts surprised the rear guard of the
enemy and stampeded it without much difficulty, and with only twenty
men wounded. As usual we had no one to thank for our success in these
skirmishes but ourselves, as Garcia's men never appeared until just as
the fight was over, when they would come running up in great
excitement. Laguerre remarked that they needed a better knowledge of
the bugle calls, as they evidently mistook our "Cease firing" for
"Advance."

The best part of that week's march lay in the many opportunities it
gave me to become acquainted with my General. The more I was permitted
to be with him the longer I wanted to be always with him, and with no
one else. After listening to Laguerre you felt that a talk with the
other men was a waste of time. There was nothing apparently that he
did not know of men and events, and his knowledge did not come from