54 THE PLANT WORLD 



streets from 9 p. m. to 5 a. m. except in cases of necessity, and took a 

 list of those having fire-arms in their possession. I was also informed 

 that several of the Filipinos had had law-suits with Chamorros, and that 

 among them was the principal cabinet-maker of the island, who had a 

 fine plantation and was a thrifty man, in spite of his fondness for cock- 

 fighting. By order of the Governor the names of the better class of Fili- 

 pinos were taken off the list, and orders were issued for the arrest of the 

 others, who were confined in the tribunal for safe-keeping to await trans- 

 portation to Manila on the Nanshan . In the evening I received calls from 

 two poor women, wives of arrested Filipinos, who brought with them 

 their little children and with tears begged that their husbands might not 

 be taken from them, saying that they were good men and had never 

 been law-breakers. Upon investigation I found that these men provided 

 well for their families. The name of one man had been placed on the 

 list by mistake. Martin Dumanal, a respectable rice planter, had been 

 arrested in place of Martin Pagal, a man of bad character. Took their 

 names off the list, and as I had been authorized by the Governor to use 

 my own discretion in the matter, I released them. 



Tuesday, September 5 . — The Filipino ex-convicts, fifteen in all, were 

 marched down to Piti this morning and embarked on the Na7ishan for 

 transportation to Manila. A number of women collected at the jail, some 

 holding little children in their arms and weeping, running after the men 

 as they marched out of town and handing them little baskets and bags of 

 food. All the Filipinos looked decent. At the last moment two of them 

 received clean shirts and trousers from women, so that they might not go 

 on board in the working garments in which they had been arrested. 



Busy all morning signing passports for people about to leave on the 

 Nanshan and \h& Jan-ho-77iaru, the Japanese schooner, which will stop at 

 the island of Saipan, north of Guam. The little Spanish doctor goes to 

 Manila. He came to me this evening saying that he was afraid his son 

 would desert him at the last moment ; that the boy was in love with a 

 Guam girl, and declared that he would not leave her. He begged our 

 assistance in case the boy should refuse to go with him. The Governor 

 has refused to let the friars remain ; they all seem to be in great distress 

 on account of leaving the island. 



This day moved into my new house. After having arranged my fur- 

 niture and books I light my lamp (kerosene, from the store of Shebata, the 

 Japanese trader) and fall to work on the Guam vocabulary and phrase- 

 book I am compiling. In this work I am greatly assisted by Father 

 Palomo and Don Juan de Torres, from whom I take rough notes, to be 

 written up when I get home. While I tap away on my typewriter my 

 dog begins to growl and there is a knock at the door. 



[to be; continued.] 



