StNicholas [serial] . rews could be re-moved and in the watchesof the night its spirits letout. However, the night be-fore the battle, after thedecks were cleared, to aman the old guard ralliedabout their standard, vo-ciferously declaring, NoDutch courage for us; wewill fight a sober , with something ofthe air that characterizes aburial at sea, they slid thechest overboard. It was in the very excite-ment of war, while we wereout beyond the reach of theenemys shells, that I feltimpressed as never beforewith the perfect workingsof the human, as well asof the mechanical, parts ofa man-
StNicholas [serial] . rews could be re-moved and in the watchesof the night its spirits letout. However, the night be-fore the battle, after thedecks were cleared, to aman the old guard ralliedabout their standard, vo-ciferously declaring, NoDutch courage for us; wewill fight a sober , with something ofthe air that characterizes aburial at sea, they slid thechest overboard. It was in the very excite-ment of war, while we wereout beyond the reach of theenemys shells, that I feltimpressed as never beforewith the perfect workingsof the human, as well asof the mechanical, parts ofa man-of-war. While we breakfasted, Bill Bart-ley was securing a piece of sheet-iron over a holea Spanish shell had put in our side, and, lest theenemy on our return might gloat over the sightof our bandaged wound, it was even painted be-fore we went back to complete the destructionwe had begun. I do not believe that one half of the horrorsof that day can ever be told; and for deeds of 1908.] THREE YEARS BEHIND THE GUNS 605. ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF SPAIN S WRECKAGE. courage and daring—on our own ship, in the hot-test of the fight, a cleaning-stick broke inside oneof the main batteries guns, and it had to betrained in, in order to poke the broken bits out;it was its officer who went outside of the spon-son to do the deed, although by a word he couldhave sent any man from his crew, and he wouldnever have been thought a shirk or a writes more about the life and doings ofone monarch than of all his subjects, but that isno reason why I, in this my private journal,should not jot down these simple facts about peo-ple in lowly station. Before high noon a white flag hung from theshears on Cavites wall, and an hour later, whenAdmiral Montejo, under a similar flag, came onboard, he would have parleyed with the littleCommodore; but Dewey demanded stoutly, Do you surrender? Conditionally, was the answer. Our cap-i-tan he die, he speaka fighty—fighty for Spain. It s either surrende
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