s I have said, in the middle of the road, and on the
following day, April 1st, we fell like a plague on Noveleta, into
which only one company entered with their arms in their hands, since
all the rest of the column carried them 'at rest' in fulfillment of
the promise above cited.

"During the firing we had the protection of artillery, and we ate
our ration without breaking ranks.

"The entrance into Noveleta did not cost more than a loss of fifteen
Europeans, but more than thirty of the natives.

"Noveleta was attacked three days after it had been taken without
other result than the leaving upon the field a number of the mutilated
bodies of the natives, which were buried by our valiant men with
respect, not for what they had been before then, but for what they
represented at that moment.

"On the day after taking Noveleta, the important town of Cavite was
taken, which was bombarded by our marines till they saw the division
coming, which had all our men except four companies, which remained
defending Noveleta.

"The column returned the next day from Cavite and then set out for
New Cavite, where we took rations for four days of biscuit and wine,
setting out the same day for Noveleta, and on the sixth the division
started to attack San Francisco de Malabon, last point of Cavite
Province in which there was an insurrection. This point was well
fortified, and this is what was the death of them.

"In an hour or seventy minutes, the enemy was dislodged, leaving more
than fifteen hundred bodies behind the trenches. There was one corpse
whose head fell more than two hundred feet from its body, carried
off by a ball of artillery. This picture was terrible to look at. We
could not look in any direction without seeing a mass of bodies, some
in pieces and others burning up as if they had been a mass of straw.

"We lodged that afternoon, and night in the houses which remained
standing, and on the following day set out for the suburb of San Juan,
which had been abandoned when they saw that San Francisco was falling
into the power of the Chasseurs.

"On leaving San Francisco, we were able to salute the Flag Regiment,
No. 70, composed of natives, whose flag was now adorned with the
seventh stripe of San Fernando.

"In the same town was found a prisoner of the enemy and wife of the
man who had been captain of the 'Guardia Civil,' who had died there
when the insurrection of San Frerelledo broke out.

"We set out, as I have sai