He then picked out five hundred of the best men and horses, and, taking his pack-train with him, he started south for the Canadian River, distant about forty miles, leaving the rest of the troops at the supply camp.

This part of the force was reported as making fair headway, having only a pack-train as transportation.

It was therefore as mobile as it could be made without a pack-train.

A stranger with a small pack-train called at his place that evening and passed the night with him.

Two of our party, Hauser and Stickney, had dropped behind and passed towards the north to get a shot at an antelope; and when they came up they reported that, while we were observing the Indians on the plateau across the river, there were one hundred or more of them watching us from behind a high butte as our pack-train passed up the valley.

Thursday, September 1.We did not break camp till nearly ten o'clock this morning, the pack-train crossing Cascade creek at its head, and coming into the river trail about two miles above the upper fall.

First Chapter: The Great Wind Strikes Second Chapter: The Pack-Train in Luzon Third Chapter:

SECOND CHAPTER THE PACK-TRAIN IN LUZON

When Pack-train Thirteen finally took the field from the big corral, to carry grub and ammunition to the moving forces and the few outstanding garrisons, Bedient had already been tried out and found excellent as cook of the outfit.

In the fall of 1899, David Cairns, the youngest of the American war-correspondents, stood hungry and desolate in the plaza of the little town of Alphonso, two days' cavalry march below Manilawhen Pack-train Thirteen arrived with provisions.

The Pack-train had spurred to the rescue of a small party of sick and footsore, making their way to garrison.

He told her he was cook of Pack-train Thirteen, just now quartered in the main corral.

Pack-train Thirteen had rubbed itself out in servicewas just a name.

It had been slow coming, but ruthlessly now, he traced his way back from one breach to another, and finally to that night in the plaza at Alphonso, when he had been enabled to see service from a unique and winning angle, through the pack-train cook.

Bedient and I rode together with an American pack-train, when there was fighting, there in Luzon.

When we reached the camping-place, early in the afternoonthe pack-train did not get in until nearly sunset, just ahead of the rainno spiders were out.

The pack-train came in about sunset; but we ourselves reached the Juruena in the middle of the afternoon.

In a large pack-train much time and labor are lost every morning collecting the mules which strayed while grazing.

In transit by pack-train these two cases would form but one mule load.

Taking service with them, he was soon helping to drive a pack-train along one of the narrow trails that crossed the lonely pine wilderness.

He gives an interesting anecdote of one man engaged in helping such a pack-train, the bell of whose horse was stolen.

Every man who has had the misfortune to drive a pack-train in thick timber, or along a bad trail, will appreciate keenly the following incident, which occurred soon after the party had set out for home: * *

The mountains were very steep, and it was painfully laborious work to climb them, while chopping out a way for the pack-train.

The troops showed the utmost patience, clearing a path for the pack-train along the sheer mountain sides and through the dense, untrodden forests in the valleys.

The men, rifle on shoulder, drove the pack-train, while some of them walked spread out in front, flank, and rear, to guard against the savages.