HEADQUARTERS THIRD SEPARATE BRIGADE,

DEPARTMENT OF NORTH PHILIPPINES, Batangas, Batangas Province, P. I., December 24, 1901.

The following description of General Malvar has been compiled from the most reliable sources in Manila and transmitted to this brigade by the department commander :

Complexion rather dark, weighs about 145 pounds, about 5 feet 2 inches in height, short and heavy set, with unusually thick and heavy jawbones, hair black, with perhaps a few gray hairs, about 40 or 42 years old, wears a gold ring with a stone set on the third finger of the left hand, feet a little broad, wears a 5 or 6 shoe ( when wearing shoes ), has well - shaped hands.

His hair is liable to grow long in front of his ears, giving an appearance of small side whiskers. He usually wears a small black mustache, and while conversing with anyone is liable to bat his eyes in a peculiar way.

Goes about country with an Indian shirt and trousers cut off or rolled up to the knee ( to avoid detection ). If captured, will affect being a very simple, inoffensive, and ignorant native who knows nothing, and will give a wrong name. Mouth large, nose ordinary, but slightly resembling Philippine nose, eyes black. Sometimes chews betel nut.

He has a brother named “ Captain Potinciano Malvar, " practicing medicine in San Pablo, who resembles Miguel very much. If Dr. Malyar is not in San Pablo he is very near there, and probably on road to Alaminos at barrio Macampo, where he was captured and afterwards paroled. Miguel Malvar is said to have frequently visited Manila wearing a new United States campaign hat. He passed American troops with a rooster under his arm, and has ridden on a carabao through Santo Tomas and Lipa, stopping at Lipa to talk to the presidente, without being detected.

He is often in the vicinity of Alaminos, Rosario, a barrio of Tiaon named Castillo, and San Juan de Boc Boc, and occasionally visits his family near Santo Tomas. His wife is a large woman. She has a harelip. His father and mother live in a shack on Mount Maquiling, where they keep a place of refuge for him ( Miguel Malvar ).

When near San Juan de Boc Boc he is usually in the barrio called Santa Cruz. When the troops are hunting him he never sleeps twice in the same place, and some times changes his place during the night.

Malvar Description Circular By Gen. Bell Brigadier - General, Commanding.

Official copy : 3 MILTON F. DAVIS, · Captain, First Cavalry, Acting Assistant Adjutant - General. WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL ' S OFFICE, April 16, 1902.