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demonstration of grief for the dead, yet the family is soon comforted, 
firmly believing in the immortality of the soul and of the ultimate 
happiness of the departed. The body is accompanied to the church 
and to the cemetery by the men, who go on foot, the women remaining 
at home. Asa rule the coffin is carried by four bearers, four others 
walking behind them to relieve them. At the cemetery the body is 
either placed in a boveda, or vault, the entrance to which is closed hy 
a stone and sealed with mortar, or it is buried in consecrated ground. 
Usually the niche in the boveda is rented for a certain period of time, 
at the expiration of which the bones are removed and buried. 
SporTS AND PASTIMES.—Sunday is observed by all as a holiday. 
Nearly everybody attends mass in the morning. Before the arrival 
of the Americans it was customary to have cockfights in the after- 
nvon, and the government received a regular income for its share of 
the receipts of the cockpit. Sunday cocktights were abolished by 
a general order of the governor, and thus a check was given to the 
passion of gambling, which with some of the natives amounted to a 
vice. The natives have no other sports except hunting for deer with 
dogs and guns. The boys amuse themselves with various games of 
Philippine origin. Kiteflying is popular, especially in the trade-wind 
season. In this sport some of them are experts, causing their kites to 
fight one another in the air, like fighting cocks, 
INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM. 
MANNER OF SECURING LIVELIHOOD.—The people of Guam are essen- 
tially agricultural. There are few masters and few servants on the 
island. Asa rule the farms are not too extensive to be cultivated by 
the family, all of whom, even the little children, lend a hand. Often 
the owners of neighboring farms work together in communal fashion, 
one day on A’s corn, the next on B’s, and so on, laughing, singing, and 
skylarking at their work, and stopping whenever they feel so inclined 
to take a drink of tuba from a bamboo vessel hanging to a neighbor- 
ing coconut tree. Each does his share without constraint, nor will he 
indulge so freely in tuba as to incapacitate himself for work; for 
experience has taught the necessity of temperance, and everyone must 
do his share if the services sre to be reciprocal. In the evening they 
separate, each going to his own rancho to feed his bullock, pigs, and 
chickens. After a good supper they lie down for the night on a 
pandanus mat spread over an elastic platform of split bamboo. 
None of the natives depends for his livelihood on his handiwork or 
on trade alone. There are men who can make shoes, tan leather, and 
cut stone for building purposes; but such a thing as a Chamorro 
shoemaker, tanner, stone mason, or merchant, who supports his family 
by his trade is unknown. In the midst of building a stone wall the 
man who has consented to help do the work will probably say: ** Excuse 
me, Sefior, but I must go to my rancho for three or four days; the 
