There is no danger of getting shot, as the province into which we go, the Santa Clara province, is owned and populated and patrolled by the Cubans.

It is no more Spanish than New Jersey and the Spaniards cannot get in there.

We have the strongest possible letters from the Junta, and I have from Lamont, Bayard and Olney and credentials in every language.
We will sit around the Gomez camp and send messengers back to the coast.

It is a three days trip and as Gomez may be moving from place to place you may not hear from us for a month and we may not hear from you but remember it was a much longer time than that before you heard from me when I went to Honduras.

Also keep in mind that I am going as a correspondent only and must keep out of the way of fighting and that I mean to do so, as Chamberlain says we want descriptive stories not brave deeds-- Major Flint who has arranged the trip for us was down there with Maceo as a correspondent.