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ipinos, looked civilized. Many of the Guam girls are quite pretty. Their 

 dress consists of a short jacket of thin muslin, with low-cut neck and 

 flowing sleeves often ornamented with lace edging, a trailing skirt usually 

 of bright-colored gingham of large checked pattern, a fine white hand- 

 kerchief over the head and often across the breast, and a necklace, usually 

 of coral with gold beads at intervals, around the neck, from which a cross 

 or medal is suspended. A few ladies dress in the European fashion, but 

 most of them say they can not endure the discomfort of lacing. The 

 shoes are made on the island, usually without heels. Stockings are 

 regarded by most of them a useless luxury. 



These people are kind, honest, and very hospitable. Indeed, they 

 will not let one pass without an invitation to enter their houses and take 

 some refreshment. To-day, when we declined an invitation of this kind, 

 one good woman disappeared for a moment and brought back some eggs 

 which she begged us to accept, refusing to take money for them. On 

 the other hand, when some of the visitors remarked upon the abundance 

 of chickens about a house, the owner immediate^ replied : " Yes, sefior, 

 I have a few, but I have a large family, and I need them for my use." 

 They do not seem to care for money ; indeed, there is little they need to 

 buy. Chickens and pigs thrive ; every family has its field of corn, its 

 tobacco patch, and perhaps a plantation of taro and yams. Coffee and 

 cacao thrive, and rice grows in several localities on the island. In the 

 woods grows the wild fertile bread-fruit (^Artocarpiis communis) , called 

 dugdug; and about nearly every ranch there are trees of the sterile form 

 of the same species. 



The seedless bread-fruit, called by the Chamorros lemae and by the 

 Filipinos runa, must be propagated by cuttings. Usually suckers, or 

 sprouts growing from the roots, are selected for this purpose. I know of 

 no tree which surpasses it in beauty or which impresses one so forcibly 

 with the lavish provision of nature for man and beast. I have already 

 spoken of the custom of the Carolinos and other Pacific islanders of pre- 

 serving the fruit in pits where it is allowed to ferment, and of that of the 

 Chamorros, who toast slices of it into biscuit. The fruit itself resembles 

 a huge osage-orange {.Toxyloyi pomiferiim) , either round or oval in shape 

 and of the size of a child's head. It is formed from the female flowers, 

 which are very numerous and are grouped in a head upon a spongy 

 receptacle. The male flowers grow in dense, yellow club-shaped catkins. 

 The leaves are very large, leathery and deeply lobed or incised. The 

 fruit is usually eaten green, when the pulp within is pure white. After 

 it ripens the pulp turns yellow and acquires a sweetish taste. It is 

 attached to the smaller branches by a short thick stalk either singly or in 

 clusters of two or three together. It is eaten either baked or boiled, and 

 with gravy or butter is almost equal to bread or potatoes. Cattle and 



