A Message to Garcia致加西亚的信
In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion.
在所有关于古巴的事件中，有一个人常常令我无法忘怀，仿佛像近日点上的火星那样始终脱颖而出。
When war broke out between Spain and the United States,it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents.Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba——no one knew here.No mail nor telegraph message could reach him.The President must secure his cooperation,and uickly.What to do！
美西战争爆发后，美国必须要马上与古巴起义军首领加西亚将军取得联系。可加西亚将军当时在古巴的大山深处——没有人确切地知道他在哪里，也没有任何邮件或电报能够送到他手上。而美国总统必须要尽快地与他建立合作关系。怎么办？
Some one said to the President,"There's a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you,if anybody can."
这时，有人对总统举荐说：“如果有人能找到加西亚将军，那么一定是叫罗文的人，他可以帮你找到。”
Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia.How "the fellow by the name of Rowan" took the letter,sealed it up in an oil-skin pouch,strapped it over his heart,in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat,disappeared into the jungle,and in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island,having traversed a hostile country on foot,and delivered his letter to Garcia——are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail.The point that I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia;Rowan took the letter and did not ask,"Where is he at？"
于是，他们将罗文找来，交给了他一封信——致加西亚的信。至于那个名叫罗文的人是如何接过信把它装进油皮纸袋里，打封并绑在胸前藏好；是如何划了四天的小船，在夜幕降临的古巴海岸上岸并消失在丛林中；以及是如何在三个星期里，徒步穿过危机四伏的国家，到达古巴岛的另一端，将信交到加西亚将军的手上。这些细节都不是我要说的。我要强调的重点是：麦金莱总统将一封写给加西亚的信交给了罗文，罗文接过信后，并没有问：“他在哪里？”