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Don Pedro Duarte has gone security for the payment of the damages, and 

 Bruno will continue to work on Don Pedro's ranch until the debt is can- 

 celled. 



Saturday, September 23. — To-day I granted the first divorce, in accord- 

 ance with the Governor's recent order. Of course it will not be recognized 

 by the church authorities, and the divorced couple when they remarry 

 can only go through a civil ceremony before the justice of the peace. 



A complaint having been made by a citizen of Agaiia that one of the 

 crew of the Yosemite while ashore on liberty last Sunday had come to 

 his house in a state of intoxication and had grossly insulted his wife, a 

 warrant was this day issued for the arrest of the said man, a seaman of 

 foreign birth named Hans Hansen. He will be tried by a military com- 

 mission of which I shall be president. 



Thus far our men have gotten along very well with the residents of 

 the island. The only thing which can possibly endanger the public peace 

 is drunkenness. Men who have been cooped up on board ship for months 

 naturally seek recreation on coming ashore, and it is not surprising that 

 some of them will drink more than is good for them after a long period 

 of forced abstinence. I am sorry about Hansen. In his normal condi- 

 tion he is peaceful and law-abiding, and he is very penitent. He must be 

 punished, however, as an example for the rest and as an indication to the 

 natives that their rights are to be respected as strictly as though they 

 were citizens of one of our own communities. 



The presence of our ships in the harbor with large crews on board of 

 them, and of the two companies of marines now in this city, is making 

 itself felt. Eggs and chickens are becoming scarce, difficulty is some- 

 times experienced in getting sufficient meat, and as there is nothing re- 

 sembling a market, we have to depend upon the good will of the natives 

 for our vegetables. Forunately for me, Susana is a good provider. Not 

 a beef is killed or a deer brought to town by a hunter but Susana hears 

 of it and secures a piece for me. The other day she asked me why I did 

 not buy some chickens and start a ranch of my own, so that I need not 

 depend upon others for fresh eggs and fowls. She has already planted 

 a peculiar kind of string bean along my garden fence i^Psophocarpiis 

 tetragonolobus) , with tender green pods having four longitudinal ruffled 

 wings. These the people here call " seguidillas." 



[to be continued.] 



C. G. Lloyd's Mycological Notes Nos. 12 and 13 have recently ap- 

 peared. No. 12 contains an account of the species of Bovista and Mycen- 

 astruDi, No. 13 contains Catastoma and Mitremyces (Calostoma), besides 

 some miscellaneous notes. The accompanying plates are issued 

 separately. 



