The Roosevelt book; selections from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt . and two or three newspaper corre-spondents were, and in consequence the first re-ports sent back to the coast were of a mostalarming character, describing with minute in-accuracy, how we had run into an ambush, packers with the mules which carried the-rapid-fire guns were among those who ran, andthey let the mules go in the jungle; in conse-quence the guns were never even brought to thefiring-line, and only Fred Herrigs skill as atrailer enabled us to recover them. By patientwork he followed up the mules tracks in
The Roosevelt book; selections from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt . and two or three newspaper corre-spondents were, and in consequence the first re-ports sent back to the coast were of a mostalarming character, describing with minute in-accuracy, how we had run into an ambush, packers with the mules which carried the-rapid-fire guns were among those who ran, andthey let the mules go in the jungle; in conse-quence the guns were never even brought to thefiring-line, and only Fred Herrigs skill as atrailer enabled us to recover them. By patientwork he followed up the mules tracks in thefor-^st until he found the animals. Among the wounded who walked to the tem-porary hospital at Siboney was the trooper,Rowland, of whom I spoke before. There thedoctors examined him, and decreed that hiswound was so serious that he must go back tothe States, This was enough for Rowland,who waited until nightfall and then escaped,slipping out of the window and making his wayback to camp with his rifle and pack, though hiswound must have made all movement very pain-. > ?zom t/) I-o (5 o O </)DCUO V cs Pi I •« i bo \ 3 ;o I -a ! o?o. 3 bo I •2 I o I •o B O X u C5 DO o QC B n E u u n o z U O O V » Some Rough Rider Heroes 103 ful to him. After this we felt that he was enti-tled to stay, and he never left us for a day, dis-tinguishing himself again in the fight at SanJuan. Next morning we buried seven dead RoughRiders in a grave on the summit of the Brown reading the solemn burial serv-ice of the Episcopalians, while the men stoodaround with bared heads and joined in singing,Rock of Ages. Vast numbers of vultureswere wheeling round and round in great circlesthrough the blue sky overhead. There could beno more honorable burial than that of these menin a common grave—Indian and cowboy, miner,packer, and college athlete—^the man of un-known ancestry from the lonely Western plains,and the man who carried on his watch the crestof the Stuyvesants and th
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