The Plant World 



A MOiNTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



Official Organ of 

 The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



OF America 



Vol. VI MAY, 1903 No. 5 



Extracts from the Note-Book of a Nat- 

 uralist on the Island of Guam.— VI.* 



By William E. Safford. 



Sunday, September 10. — To-day received a visit from Captain Dunlap 

 of the Solace, accompanied by several officers and ladies. The Solace ar- 

 rived yesterday from Manila, having stopped at Iloilo on her way to land 

 and take on passengers. The distance from Cavite to this island by the 

 route usually traveled by steamers is nearly fifteen hundred nautical 

 miles ; from Guam to Honolulu it is a little greater than three thousand 

 miles, more than twice as far. 



Went with the party to visit the village of the Caroline Islanders, sev- 

 eral photographs of which were taken. The natives of Guam say that 

 when visitors come here they do not seem to care to visit the ranches of 

 the natives and see how they live, but they go to this village composed 

 of the huts of a lot of naked savages and take photographs back home, 

 which their friends think are pictures of Chamorros. In this way wrong 

 impressions of the island and its people are scattered abroad. The con- 

 trast between the Carolinos and the Chamorros was especially striking 

 to-day. The former, with beautiful physique, but with great skeins of 

 beads depending from their ears, and their half-naked bodies painted with 

 yellow tumeric and red arnotto, looked indeed like savages ; while the 

 latter, tastefully clad in their Sunday clothes after the manner of the Fil- 



* Continued from April issue. Begun in September, 1902. 



