The island seems to have been where the sharp-shooters were placed—on the ground, behind trenches, and in the trees. We understand from the prisoners that these were always stationed in couples, and that the orders were that whenever one was killed or wounded his companion was to bury or carry him off the field. T have told in a previous letter and dispatches how continually we have found the sand with fingers or boots protruding: heaped ina trench, and elsewhere, When L searched the island yesterday I found profuse proofs of other burials beside these—of new dead not included in any estimate, Here I found grave-shaped mounds of such fresh appearance and sug-ined them. They lo! when we touched these they cai of the earth and were seen to ba tree-twiga and branches cut from trees and stuck in the mounds. At some distance back in the island we found " very large trench, of a size to hold twenty bodies. It emitted indubitable proof of its contents. As we understand the tue ties of our enemy, these graves are apt to be those of their humbler soldiers. We know that they carry of in carts and across their saddles the bodies of
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