went to work in the mess barracks of the Japanese as a pot-boy,
 
at his own request. Thereafter he was known to officers and men
 
alike as The Pig. In some manner The Pig curried favor with the
 
Japanese and succeeded in buying four sacks of sugar for a total
 
price of forty pesos--two Filipino pesos being equal to one dollar.
 
     Each of The Pig' s sacks of sugar contained 105 canteen
 
cups of sugar. Sugar was avidly desired by all the prisoners 
 
because, as strange as this way seem to well-fed Americans, it
 
made the deadly diet of plain boiled rice more palatable. The
 
Pig sold this sugar for two pesos per cup for the first three
 
sacks and, his conscience perhaps beginning to bother him, the
 
remaining sack at one peso per cup. On this deal, therefore, he
 
collected a total of 735 pesos on a 40-peso investment. He thus
 
became the Coresus of the camp.
 
              When the scant food we were allowed to buy from the 
 
outside finally came under control of the prisoners, it was at 
 
first distributed equally to each of the three groups in the
 
prison camp. This brought about an incident which caused much
 
bitterness in Group One--my group--and caused a number of officers 
to swear that they would have an understanding with a certain 
 
high-ranking officer, after the war, if they were still alive.
 
I will not give this officer's name, rank or service,
 
and the incident is related only to show to what lengths men 
 
can be driven by hunger and privation. The conduct in this case, I
 
might add, was a decided exception to the spirit which pervaded
 
the prisoners as a whole.