The Plant World 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



Official Organ of 

 The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



OF America 



Vol. VI MARCH, 1903 No. 3 



Extracts from the Note-Book of a Nat- 

 uralist on the Island of Guam.— IV.* 



By William E. Safford. 



Friday, September 1, 1899. — A few nights ago a young man was acci- 

 dentally shot while hunting deer. The deer are very abundant on this 

 island and cause great damage to corn and to young coconuts. He was 

 lying in wait for them near his own cornfield. Hearing a slight noise, he 

 got ready to fire, when a shot was heard and he was struck with a bullet. 

 He thinks that some one mistook him for a deer and on finding out the 

 mistake ran away for fear of prosecution. He was carried to town the 

 next day and the little Spanish doctor was called upon to dress his 

 wound. This he did as well as he could without antiseptics of any kind, 

 washing the wound carefully with hot water and thoroughly cleansing it ; 

 but the wounded man's temperature had already begun to rise, and blood 

 poisoning had probably begun. There was no medicine of any kind in 

 the town and no medical ofiicer from the ship. Several marines com- 

 plained of being ill, and said that they were not in fit condition for work. 

 Dr. Grunwell, of the Yosemite, was accordingly ordered to Agafia, and 

 came to live on shore last Tuesday. He went with the Spanish doctor to 

 visit the wounded man, and said that the doctor had done all that could 

 have been done for him with the means at his disposal. The building 

 used by the Spaniards as a military storehouse has been converted into a 



• Continued from February issue. Begun in September, 1902. 



