Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1899 — and 15 wounded, some very bad. [ARTICLE]

and 15 wounded, some very bad.

If I coaid tell half about this country you would make up your mind at once that it is no place far a white man to be. The temperature of this climate is about 90 degrees and the heat is so intense, especially out in the sun that it is unsafe to be ont much. As I have not time to tell yon all about the many sights and the ways of native living, I will brmg my letter to a close for this time, but will try and write something more important next time. But as I have said before there is no way of getting news from the different regiments and it is almost impossible for me to write anything. Tomorrow is Sunday and about 100 of us are going out for a little sport with the insurgents, several officers have joined the crowd and we all have formed a cavalry troop mounted on horses, water buffalo or on oxen which are good travelers, we are all well armed with swords and rifles and intend to capture some of these rebels that stay near our lines and fire every night at the boys on outpost duty, a.steam launch is going to carry a gatling gun up the river and not let the rebels cross, and we will go around and come in behind them and I believe we will get a few of them. But don’t get uneasy about me for they can’t hit me, they may scare me to death, but that is the’ only way they will get me. So trusting all is well, and with kind* regards to one and all, I remain as ever, Yours Truly,

LEONARD L. JESSUP.