The Journal of Fletcher Ames Hatch

Being an account of my experience while at work for the Philippine R.R. Co. After you have read these pages, don't talk to me about all engineers having a snap.

If anything happens to me this book is to be sent to my brother Israel Hatch, RD#1, Rockland, Massachusetts, USA.

[transcribed from the original diary by Wynona B. and Jon-Richard Little, 2007]

Fri. Aug. 3rd


Ran two mi. of topog. And meandered the Guimaghou River for about a mile. Transit party struck a swamp and only ran 2000 feet. I got through and got into camp by 3:30. Rained a little in P.M. Big cloud of grasshoppers on the hacienda. There is an American ex-soldier on this hacienda working as a foreman at a peso a day.

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