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the betel pepper, and the areca palm, These are undoubtedly of 
Malayan origin and bear Malayan names. They probably found their 
way to the Malayan islands after the departure of the people who 
spread over the eastern Pacific islands, but before the separation of 
the settlers of Guam from the parent stock. It is interesting to note 
that the Guam name for rice (fae, or fai) is more closely allied to the 
Java name (bai) than to the Philippine (palai). Besides rice, the betel 
pepper, and the areca palm the natives of Guam took with them a 
textile screw pine (/andanus tector/us), which has to be propagated by 
cuttings, as only one sex occurs on the island, and it consequently 
does not fruit. On the other hand, the eastern Polynesians took with 
them a number of plants unknown to the ancient Chamorros, such as 
the paper mulberry, the kava pepper, the candle nut, and the so-called 
chestnut of Polynesia (/tocow edulis), all of which are of East Indian 
origin. 
ENDEMIC NAMES.—One of the most striking facts connected with 
Guam plant names is the occurrence of some which are, as far as can 
be ascertained, quite different from those of any other region. Such 
are the names of the several forms of yam (nika and dago), bananas 
and plantains (chotda), Cycas (fadang), bamboo (piao), and the various 
species of screw pine (aggag, pahong, kaf6). The name for breadfruit 
(lemae) bears no resemblance to that used by the Polynesians (ulu), 
and the name for the taro plant (suni), which I have been unable to 
find elsewhere in the Pacific or the Philippines, I believe to be identi- 
fied with ‘*sunge,” or *‘songe,” its name in the islands of Madagascar 
and Réunion. . 
LITERATURE.“ 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
A list of books in the Library of Congress relating to Samoa and 
Guam, with references to periodicals, was compiled under the direction 
of Mr. A. P. C. Griffin and published in 1901. A second list, with 
important additions on the Marianne Islands, was published two years 
later under the same auspices, forming a part of the Bibliography of 
the Philippine Islands (pp. 138-144), Washington, 1903. 
EARLY VOYAGES. 
MaGELLAN.—Pigafetta’s narrative of Magellan’s voyage, containing 
an account of the discovery of Guam, was published in Italian at 
Milan in L800. The best English translation is that published in vol. 
52 of the Hakluyt Society publications. A critical account of the 
editions of this work is given in Winsor’s Narrative and Critical His- 
tory of America, vol. 2, pp. 613-617. Herrera’s Historia general de 
los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas i tierra firme del mar oceano 
“Tam indebted to Dr. Ainsworth R. Spofford for reading the proof of the following 
notes and list of works consulted, 
