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108 while on the march. We found no difficulty in eating the beef obtained from Puerto Rican steers, although it was tough and bloodless; and we received salt pork often enough to furnish variety.

After the cessation of hostilities we began to get American beef instead of the native article, and, while it was by no means so impossible a food as its canned cousin, it certainly could not be called delicious. It smelled badly before it was cooked, was rigid and stringy when served, and had a rank taste, like — well like nothing else on earth. Our sick-list doubled at this time.

of the killed and wounded on the American side, at the battle near Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, on the 10th of August, 1898.

Fred Fenneberg, private in Company " D," Eleventh Infantry.

Lieutenant J. C. Byron, Eighth United States Cavalry, R. D. C.

John Bruning, corporal in Light Battery " D," Fifth Artillery.

George Curtis, private in Light Battery " D," Fifth Artillery.