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THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL the top they rested. From there the column wound its way around the shoulders of the mountains, up and down, finally emerging in the pass. It was late in the afternoon and turning cold. They had marched fifteen miles and climbed four thousand feet. Miles have shrunk for the passengers of car and plane, but wherever men travel on their own feet, they are still distances to be reckoned with. There were two officers and some men awaiting them in camp. They had been upon the mountain the day before to view its defences, which appeared to them formidable. After surmounting the long slope to the crater, they were forced to follow its edge for some distance. They soon found a ledge of rock barring further progress, but by throwing a rope over a projecting root, they managed to surmount the ledge. When they climbed up the rope, their legs dangled over the abyss of the crater. One of the officers, as he climbed up the root, noticed that it was loose in its socket like an old tooth. The sight was not reassuring and he had dark forbodings when he reflected that they would return that way. Later, other things drove this from his mind. As they scrambled up the side of the mountain they encountered another cliff, sixty feet high. This appeared to be the mountain's main line of resistance. One walked along the face of the cliff on projecting tree roots, hoping that they were sound and tough. Above this cliff lay others and beyond them the top of the mountain, a jungle of peaks separated by yawning canyons, strewn with boulders as large as houses. The officers avoided floundering through these by walking through the tree tops, like monkeys. The boughs, draped with heavy green moss which was the growth of centuries, offered themselves as an aerial sidewalk. Sitting down to rest, one of the officers looked between his legs and discovered that there was nothing but space beneath him for two hundred feet. He moved on hurriedly. They finally emerged on the highest peak but one and perceived the summit. The two peaks were connected by a saddle—a sharp and serrated edge. On the left lay the crater; on the right an equally precipitous mountain side. They rolled rocks either way and listened to them thunder down the thousand-foot slopes. When the reverberations died away they decided it would profit them to be careful. Either side would make a magnificent tomb, but they were not looking for tombs. They sallied forth along the knife-edge, clinging to shrubs and rocks. It was slow progress. Once in a while it was necessary to bestride it as one does a gymnasium horse, inching forward on the hands. Thus they reached the summit. It was now with some foreboding that they now awaited the arrival of the battery. 452
THE COLUMN ON THE CHINA SEA TRAIL CAMP SANCHEZ, FORMERLY CAMP SEVEN, IN ZAMBALES PASS THE SLOPES OF PINATUBO ARE IN THE BACKGROUND.
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Page 21 and 22: A FABLE BY LIEUTENANT J. L. CHAMBER
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