So their soldiers slept along the platform and trucks rolled by them all night, shaking the boards on which they lay by an inch or two.

About four we heard that Shafter was coming and an officer arrived to have his luggage placed on the Seguranca.

I left them all on the pier carrying their own baggage and sweating and dripping and no one having slept.

Their special train had been three hours in coming nine miles.

I hired a small boat and went off to the flagship alone but the small boat began to leak and I bailed and the colored boy pulled and the men on the transports cheered us on.