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to torture any non American by their apparent surprise and reluctant manner to at our impartiality in caring for the wounded and sick. Their fever wasted faces have lit up as rosy as the luxuriant valleys when I have dressed a gunshot wound or given them a cup of water. My admiration of these Spanish foes is complete, for if they are as consistent in their life as in the manner they must be a charming race of people, They are polite and dignified and effusively courteous, assuring you that they will be "buenos Americanos" which of course you are never to believe for one moment. I admire their frankness and at the same time reserve and prepossession. They acknowledge in deed and word that they are the vanquished with such a good grace that you can forgive them anything of the past and take them into your circle and share with them your small store. We try to be a generous victor, that with the conquering of