Show ATTACKED BY WORDS IN THE philippines prospector RELATES TERRIBLE experience IN ISLAND OF MINDANAO ban francisco beating terrible bears r s on his face head arnis arms anc back rounds mado made by bolus bolon in lh ha hands handa of murderous moro bandits hal hai vey A six a mcie shadow of his hl farmer sif return returned od leont the phil the other lay day on the trans trana port sheridan with a tale of awful suffer sufferings inus six went to the philippines in fit a man but returns reduced ti tc 95 pounds the privations lie wen beni through account for this lie was I 1 prospector and in abill last gamt set B out ou from prang in the island of mindanao in fit search boarch of gold which he says bays car 44 fi ji al I 1 IF ig the moro struck mo me on the head had bo be found la in great abundance in fit the in perlor gerior tramping for lays he be came lost in a dense jungle ills pio visions gave out and there was nc water near ile he crept into a deserted hut and lay doa down n to die lie ile thinks he must have lain there ihne days the illee and insects devouring ma its hands handa and fare face one evening boien the moor was waa shining brightly six awoke frair life his delli tum to find two savage looking bending over hem lie ile was mas powe powerless iless to do anything ant bing one of them drew his bolo said six I 1 I 1 could see bee the blade glisten ing in the he moonlight which ameo into he hut through the blaken walls I 1 could move neither hand band nor toot t r itte merely rely watched the blade the na tives lives held a parley and then one ad danced and struck me on the head I 1 1 could feel the hot flow of blood anc aag then lost consciousness six was found a day or two later by a surveying party gasping out life hit life hundred fiet away aiom the hut ilow how ho he got there he did not know ile ho was nas carried by hs his rescuers back bach to and from to manilla mandla where he ha lay in a hospital for 26 dab the moros moroa evidently thought they had killed himi him A poll pod ion of hl bli scalp had been laid open thero there was a long gash extending from his nose back to the left led ear act osti ats back bach was another horrible aund and hit bib light arm was almost severed ili hit vitality mas aa wonderful and he wa finally brought back ficia the brink ol 01 0 the grave but a bicken man when I 1 went oer mer said six as aa he be tottered iod down tho iho gangplank ol 01 the Sheil dan 1 I weighed pounds look at me now I 1 am going back it t my home in illinois to spend the re maunder of my life god but it it good to got get back |