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A FRONTIER DOCTOR
utilized to convey the scouts and their booty, some
twenty guns and other plunder, to Angeles. The surviv-
ors were listed and turned loose with a warning that if
caught again they would be shot.
One evening at dinner word was quietly passed for the
staff to be prepared to take the field at 9 P.M., with emer-
gency rations for one day, destination unknown. Later
we learned that with a detail of one hundred mounted
scouts we were booked for one of the night raids after
guns for which 'Grant's Mounted Scouts' had become
famous, a diversion welcome to all.
It is 9 P.M., and the column is off. Angeles was a large
pueblo, and in order not to excite the suspicions of the na-
tive populace not a move was made out of the ordinary
before 8.45, when horses were saddled, carbines and re-
volvers inspected, all with scarcely a sound until the
column dashed away at a gallop, toward a mountain
gorge twelve miles away, in a defile of which we hoped to
surprise a rendezvous. The rapid start was to prevent
advance warning by natives. We galloped a few miles,
then slowed down to a steady trot of about six miles an
hour.
It was a beautiful tropical night with a brilliant moon
just rising as we pulled out, almost bright enough to read
by. Would it were possible to describe the beauty of
moonlight in Luzon, but it must be seen and its softness
actually felt to be appreciated. The first ten miles led
through an undulating country broken at intervals by
clear rapid streams from the mountain, easily forded and
very refreshing to our horses. The trail, a very good one,
was fringed with the feathery bamboo, many varieties of
stately palms, different kinds of fruit trees, which, with
the many varieties of the famous hard woods of the Is-
lands, presented an ever-changing panorama of nature
beautiful to behold. At interval breaks in the forest were232
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Hoyt, Henry Franklin. A Frontier Doctor, book, 1929; Boston, Massachusetts. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143532/m1/282/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.