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158 "I heard through one of the wounded rebels that the notorious General Adoz was in to-day's fight," went on Gilbert. "It's a pity we didn't capture him."

"It's a pity we can't capture General Aguinaldo," said the major. "It seems to me this rebellion would come to a short end if he was taken."

While the fight was going on through this jungle and on the hillside, the gunboat Helena and the monitor Monadnock had been shelling Las Piñas and Paranaque, and the country between, continuously, trying to drive the rebels inland, into the reach of the army. Out on the water this was hot work and drove many a sailor to the hospital bay. Captain Nichols of the Monadnock was overcome and died of the heat late in the afternoon.

The Sunday to follow was one of well-earned rest, and our friends did little, but lay around in the shade, discussing the situation. It was learned that many of the Filipinos had slipped past the outposts during the darkness and were hurrying southward in the direction of the Zapote River. From the private secretary of General Pio del Pilar, who had deserted his employer, it was learned, through General Otis, that the Filipino army of southern Luzon