THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 348 achieveda great victory over thehatedSpaniard, and were wondering why all these strange,bluecoated, white-skinned, big men were getting in the way."

They-did not get on very well with their new allies, the American regulars. The Cubans did not understand any kind of fighting but their ownirregular,indecisive skirmishinginthe bush. They left the heavy work of tackling General Linares behind his blockhouses and trenches for the new-comers. Intheir ownfashion they were ready enough to co-operate, and they didsome useful work,but it was not thesteady,systematic campaigning that the Americans expected of them, and the Cuban insurgent,whomthe New Yorkpapershadrepresentedas aconqueringhero, troopshad alreadybeen got into the boatsof the transports,and the steam launches of the fleet took themin tow instrings of four or five, and began puffing in towards Daiquiri pier. There wasno resistance. The onlydifficulty inlanding was that caused by the surf. The troops first landedbelongedto the 2ndDivision,commanded by GeneralLawton, oneof the volunteer officers of the Civil War. The 'first regiment actually landed was the 8th Regular Infantry, though the first manashore was Lieutenant Godfrey of the 22nd.

Lawtonpushed an outpost line into the hills, and set the engineers to strengthen thepier for the landing of artillery. He established his headquarters in what wasleft of the village. A handful of Cuban guerillas were already in possession. They had slipped in as soon as the Spaniards let go their hold of the place. More of them marched induring the day. Here is an impression of their appearance as sketched in words by oneof the English correspondents, Mr. Hands of the Daily Mail:— " Down the rocky path came a Cuban army. They limped along in single file. Their trousers were strips of tattered canvas, through made a very bad impression when it was realised that instead of charging with the machete, he preferred wasting ammunition at impossible ranges; that he gave no quarter,was ready to plunder, and never failedto put inhis appearance when anything was to be had either for the asking or the taking. From themomentwhentheSpanish and United States armies met in battle near Santiago, there was among the Americans a growing disgust for their allies, a growing esteem COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT which thinbrownlegs showed. Their knapsacks were bundlesof dirty canvas matting slungwith knottedends ofrope. A few woreboots, which, whenthey were acquired, were somebody's castoffs. Some woresandals madeof bits of canvas tied over their naked feet with string. Most were bare-footed, and their feet were sore and bleeding. They were much better armed than otherwise equipped, and evidently a proportion of the arms sent for their use from Tampa had reached them. There was something curiously Eastern in their white clothes and their small features and dark, wistful eyes, and when their leader came along perched on a donkey, and carrying a great broad-bladed machete, the Eastern suggestion was intensified. They shambled along in single file down the rocky path, along the track across the swamp behind, and wound amongthe palm treesin the valley, tillthey disappeared behind the shoulder of one of the hills in the second row. Iam sure they were quite persuaded that they had for their brave enemies.

The blockhouseon the hill was occupied and the Stars and Stripes hoisted on its flagstaff. Thelanding went on steadily all the afternoon. The greater part of Lawton's division was landed, and part of General Bates' brigade, belonging to the ist Division,besides a portion of Wheeler's dismountedcavalry. None of the artillery could yet be got ashore, the only guns landed beingamachine-gun battery. Nor was much of the transport disembarked. Sonic horses and mules were dropped overboard and made to swim ashore. Altogether,by evening, General Lawton had some 6,000 men landed, and had besides with him about 1,000 Cubans under General Castillo.

The Spanish detachments that had watched the hills and the coast villages were retiring westwardtowards Santiago. Linares haddecided that it wasuseless to fritter away his small force by trying to hold the numerous blockhouses to the eastward,nor did he mean to expose his