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USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
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Streams... 0.0.2... eee eee eee eee eee 53 
strongholds of aborigines .................. 107 
Succession, lwws........2.....20222202 22 eee 106 
Suicide of natives ......2...2.22.222222222-.. 16 
Sugar imported into Guam ................. 137 
made of coconut sap.......-. Loge eee eee 238 
Sugar cane 2.2... 2.22 eee eee 366 
OVIZID. 2.0 ee eee eee eee 153 
vernacular names of...............022200- 115 
Sula (sea birds) .....2.......02.20. 0c e eee eee 80 
Sumai village ...........0.00.... 00222202 ee eee 4 
population ........2....2..2.22..2.0225--- 187 
Sun, myth regarding................2-..0-. 110 
Sunday, observance ..............2.2.22-.-. 131 
Superstitions of aborigines .....22....22.. 109, 118 
Surface of the island ...........2....22222-. 46 
Surgeon-fishes. See Lancet-fishes. 
Surgeon-General of the Navy, report....... 121 
Surmullets called Salmonete.....0..... 220. 87 
Survey board appointed by Secretary of the 
NAVY 2.000020 2 eee ee eee eee eee eee 48 
Survey of island by Duperrey ..........-.-- 30 
Swamp called la Cienaga ...2..22222...22-. 34, 52 
Swamp plants 2.0.0.0... 2.022.220 eee eee eee 379 
Swan, Captain, a privateer ................- 17 
Sweet potatoes ...........2.....0.2...---- 145, 297 
unknown to the aboriginal inhabitants. .. 98 
Swift, edible nest. ..0000..02002020000.0000022. 79 
Sword grass for.thatching ................. 57, 150 
Synanceia thersites, a poisonous fish ........ 87 
Synapta, a holothurian.........2..2.220.... 89 
Synodus (lizard-fishes) ..........2.22-..---- 82 
Syphilis, inherited, among natives......... 121 
Tacamahae resin ............22....2.2.0.. 208, 289 
Tachogiia farm. .........2.2.....2222222.20-. 22 
Tahitian language ................0.0220022- 113 
plant names...........2....-2-.22-.----2-- 170 
Talage Bay . 2.0.0... 2 0.2 ec eee cee eee eee 47 
Talisai village, night attack. ......000.200.. 105 
Talof6f6 River. ...............2.2...222..--- 52 
Valley, fertility .............2022..2222.. 140, 144 
CAVOTUL. 0200 ee ee eee eee 52 
Tamarind .........0....0002-. 020 e ee eens 146 
Tanning materials ............... 126, 203, 357, 383 
Tapa (bark cloth) ......2..........22.2.--. 96, 189 
Tapioca 2.200... 2. eee ee eee ee eee eee 317 
TATO oo en ec cee eee eee eee 69, 207 
acridity destroyed by heat .......... 22... 69, 70 
cultivation ........2....0..222222222--5- 144, 207 
Guam name similar to that of the Mala- 
BASSY 2.0... eee eee eee eee eee 154 
giant, eaten only in case of necessity .... 144 
needle crystals (raphides)............... 69 
Tattler, Asiatic wandering ................. 80 
Telegraphic cable .....2......22..2.2.02-2--- 44,45 
Temperance of aboriginies................ 99, 103 
Temperature statistics for 1902 ............. 42 
Temples, absence ........--....----20--2-0- 109 
Tengho Mountain ..............---....2005 48,51 
| Terminalia nuts eaten by aborigines....... 98 
Termites (white ants)...............2...224 94 
Tern, snowy, a sea-bird ..................24 80 
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Sewers needed at Agafla ......220.0000.0... 136 
Shark 2.2.2.0... 0.2220 e eee eee 85 
Shells used for rattles and trumpets ....... 108 
Shipwrecked sailors, kind treatment....... 14 
Shoes, modern...........---......-..2+--- 128, 126 
Shore birds. .............. eee eee eee eee 179 
line of island ............2.0.20.-.--2-2--4- 46 
plants 2.2... 2.22... eee eee eee eee ee eee eee 53 
Shrines in modern houses................-- 124 
Sick, care by medical officers of the Navy.. 136 | 
Siganas, fishes.................--..2.02-- 85, 87, 88 
Sihig, a bird ..... 0.2... eee eee eee eee 79 
Sihig, a fish... 2... eee eee cee ee &8 
Silversmiths. .......2....222.00.2202 222 e ee 125 
Sink-holes on the island. ..............----- 52 
Skinks (small lizards)..........2.....2.2.2. s1 
Skulls of ancestors kept in houses.......--- 109 
carried in war........ 22222 eee eee eee eee 107 
Skulls, veneration... .............0.2.2.006 107,111 
Slings used as weapons..............-2...-. 20, 106 
Sloane, Hans, on the Gulf Stream.......... 73 
Smallpox ..... 2.222. eee eee eee ee ee eee 39, 122 
Snakes, absence ......22.0 2.222.222 eee eee eee s1 
Snipe ........2 2. eee ee eee eee eee eee 80 
Soap oranges used for washing......0....-. 227 
Soap made from coconut oil.....22....--- 147, 241 
Social institutions of modern natives ...... 128 
Soil exhausted by cultivation. ........... 139-141 
Soils of the island .........0.....2..0..2.220-. lil 
Solano, Padre, Jesuit missionary ........... 16 
Solenopsis, an ant ........--2-2.----2..----- 92 
Solomon Islands. ........-..-2..00.--20-000- 97 
song bird (Aerecephalus luseinia).........-. 79 
SONGS .. 00... eee ee ee ee ee eee eee eee eee 108, 110 
Sorcerers (makahna)..............--- 109, 111,112 
Soul (ante) belief in..............2...20.--. 109 
Spaniards criticised by Chamisso.........-- 29 
Spears and slings of aborigines. ...........- 106 
Spermatozoids of Cycads .................-- 72 
Sphinx moth larvee on tobaceo............ 91, 152 
Spiders ......... 22.22.0222 002 eee ee eee 94 
Spilbergen, Dutch admiral, visit........... 13 
Spirits of the dead........2.....2022.2200... 109 
Spitting, superstition regarding............ 112 
Spofford, Dr, Ainsworth R ................. 154 
Sports and pastimes ............0........- 107, 131 
Squatarola squatarola, a plover ..........-.- 80 
Stahl, Ernst, on raphides...............0... 71 
Standards of measure -.....2......-.....--- 138 
Starch, preparation ...................-.. 317,318 
Starch-yielding plants.......... seeeeeeeee 145, 876 
Starchy fruits..........22....222...02022200- 145 
Starfish 0.0.2... 2c e eee eee &9 
Starling 2.0.00... .. cee eee eee eee ee eee eee 79 
Statistics of commerce, population, etc..... 137 
Stavers, English captain .............2..... 36 
Stejneger, Leonard.....................2... 80 
Stengel, Xavier, Jesuit missionary ......... 22 
Sterile plants, propagation ...............-. 59 
Stizolobium gigantewm, a sea-bean .......--- 73 
Stonusodon, @ TAY... 2.6... 000. eee eee eee eee 84 
Stone implements, ancient................. 100 
Stone pillars. ............0.00200..0 2002s 97 
StormS.....-......-2-22--2-.-2.-2-----------0--- 4: 
Strand soil ................20..22--.-------- 139 
Strand vegetation ........ tote eee eee eens .- 53 
Terraces caused by successive upheavals.. 47,51 
Tetradrachmum aruanum, a fish ....2..2.... 83 
Teuthis lineatus, a beautiful lancet fish ..... 82, 85 
| Textile pandunus, uses..,..... res 61) 
