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having been baptised. He told them that the padres were people despised 

 and looked down upon by the Spanish, who had sent them into exile for 

 that reason to this island ; and he said that surely the water was poison- 

 ous, though some of the more robust might resist its effects. As many 

 of those baptised had indeed died shortly afterwards, and as the mission- 

 aries taught that they were sure of salvation, it looked to the natives as 

 though the padres really wished them to die. Henceforward, instead of 

 receiving them joyfully in their villages and retaining them there as guests 

 almost against their will, the natives greeted the missionaries with scowl- 

 ing faces, and calling them murderers threatened them with their spears. 

 They no longer offered them bread-fruit, and at their approach mothers 

 would catch up their babes and fly with them to the woods for safety, or, 

 if the little ones were sick or dying, they would conceal them in their 

 houses as best they could. In their zeal the padres would often baptise 

 the children in spite of the threats of the fathers and the tears and prayers 

 of the mothers. It was under circumstances of this nature that Padre 

 Sanvitores lost his life. While baptising a child at Tumhun, the bay in 

 which the leper settlement is now established, he was killed by the child's 

 father, a chief named Matapang, aided by one of his retainers. 



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Tuesday, Septeviber 19. — Took a walk to-day along the beach where, 

 among other things, I saw growing Scaevola koenigii, a shrub with 

 fleshy leaves and white flowers shaped somewhat like those of the genus 

 lyobelia ; Tournefortia argentea, a shrub with silky -hairy leaves and 

 scorpioid branching inflorescence belonging to the Boraginaceae ; the 

 common " goats-foot convolvulus " (^Ipomoea biloba), with glossy leaves 

 notched at the apex and purple trumpet-shaped flowers ; Parithim tilia- 

 cezim, from the inner bark of which the natives make ropes ; Thespesia 

 popiibiea, with flowers very much like those of the Paritium (both like 

 yellow hollyhocks); and Erythrina indica, a tree with trifoliate leaves, 

 not now in bloom. 



At the the town of Aniguag I noticed a fine specimen of the ' ' cabo 

 negro " palm, Arenga sacc/mrifera, and a tree which the natives called 

 "lumbang," which at first I did not recognize, but which proved to be 

 the candle-nut ^Aleurites viohiccana), the well-known " kukui " of 

 Hawaii. Of this species there are very few trees on the island of Guam. 

 It is evidently of recent introduction and its name is of Philippine origin. 

 In a thicket I came across several undershrubs, including a malvaceous 

 plant with lobed leaves {.Urena sinuata) and a species of Sida. 



After carrying my specimens home it occurred to me to examine the 

 Urena to see if the leaves had glands like those of the closely allied Urena 

 lobata of Samoa, a plant which once excited my interest in the subject of 

 extrafloral nectaries. There they were, a distinct vaginate gland in each 



