United States

[Before it was sent, this letter was read to and approved by every officer of the regiment who had served through the Santiago campaign.]

[Copy.]

CAMP WIKOFF, September 10, 1898.

TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR.

SIR: In answer to the circular issued by command of Major-General Shafter under date of September 8, 1898, containing a request for information by the Adjutant-General of September 7th, I have the honor to report as follows:

[The following is the report of the Associated Press correspondent of the "round-robin" incident. It is literally true in every detail. I was present when he was handed both letters; he was present while they were being written.]

It has been suggested to me that when Bucky O'Neill spoke of the vultures tearing our dead, he was thinking of no modern poet, but of the words of the prophet Ezekiel: "Speak unto every feathered fowl . . . . . ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth."

 LE JEUNE'S VOYAGE. - HIS FIRST PUPILS. - HIS STUDIES. - 
 HIS INDIAN TEACHER. - WINTER AT THE MISSION-HOUSE. - 
 LE JEUNE'S SCHOOL. - REINFORCEMENTS.

 IROQUOIS PRISONERS. - PISKARET. - HIS EXPLOITS. - MORE PRISONERS. - 
 IROQUOIS EMBASSY. - THE ORATOR. - THE GREAT COUNCIL. - 
 SPEECHES OF KIOTSATON. - MUSTER OF SAVAGES. - PEACE CONFIRMED.

 LE JEUNE JOINS THE INDIANS. - THE FIRST ENCAMPMENT. - THE APOSTATE. - 
 FOREST LIFE IN WINTER. - THE INDIAN HUT. - THE SORCERER. - 
 HIS PERSECUTION OF THE PRIEST. - EVIL COMPANY. - MAGIC. - 
 INCANTATIONS. - CHRISTMAS. - STARVATION. - HOPES OF CONVERSION. - 
 BACKSLIDING. - PERIL AND ESCAPE OF LE JEUNE. - HIS RETURN.

 UNCERTAINTIES. - THE MISSION OF JOGUES. - HE REACHES THE MOHAWKS. - 
 HIS RECEPTION. - HIS RETURN. - HIS SECOND MISSION. - WARNINGS OF DANGER. - 
 RAGE OF THE MOHAWKS. - MURDER OF JOGUES.

 PLANS OF CONVERSION. - AIMS AND MOTIVES. - INDIAN DIPLOMACY. - 
 HURONS AT QUEBEC. - COUNCILS. - THE JESUIT CHAPEL. - LE BORGNE. - 
 THE JESUITS THWARTED. - THEIR PERSEVERANCE. - THE JOURNEY TO THE HURONS. - 
 JEAN DE BREBEUF. - THE MISSION BEGUN.

 MOHAWK INROADS. - THE HUNTERS OF MEN. - THE CAPTIVE CONVERTS. - 
 THE ESCAPE OF MARIE. - HER STORY. - THE ALGONQUIN PRISONER'S REVENGE. - 
 HER FLIGHT. - TERROR OF THE COLONISTS. - JESUIT INTREPIDITY.

 THE HURON MISSION-HOUSE. - ITS INMATES. - ITS FURNITURE. - ITS GUESTS. - 
 THE JESUIT AS A TEACHER. - AS AN ENGINEER. - BAPTISMS. - 
 HURON VILLAGE LIFE. - FESTIVITIES AND SORCERIES. - THE DREAM FEAST. - 
 THE PRIESTS ACCUSED OF MAGIC. - THE DROUGHT AND THE RED CROSS.