The Plant World 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



Official Organ of 

 The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



OF America 



Vol. VI AUGUST, 1903 No. 8 



Extracts from the Note-Book of a Nat- 

 uralist on the Island of Guam.— IX.* 



By William E. Safford. 



Sunday, October 1. — As I sat this morning after breakfast looking 

 across the plaza at the tangled mass of vegetation near the door of the 

 palace, Susana came in to clear off the table. "Susana," said I, "do 

 you know when the palace was built ? " " Surely, seiior ; it has not been 

 very long. It seems only yesterday. Don Enrique was Governor ; t every- 

 body liked him ; and as for his wife, she was an angel — a lovely Cuban 

 lady. I don't know why it is, seiior, but we have all noticed one thing — if a 

 Governor brings his wife to Guam it 's a sure sign that he is a good man 

 and that he will be kind to us. Perhaps it is because he is good that his 

 wife would be willing to come here with him. If he were bad and ill- 

 natured she would rather stay in Spain. We have been having a terrible 

 time with the governors. Don Angel de Pazos, a cruel, disagreeable, 

 overbearing man, was assassinated by one of the palace orderlies. Don 

 Francisco Olive, who came next, was a hard worker, but he did not seem 

 to think much of the Chamorros and he did nothing to make us better. 

 Then came Don Enrique ; he brought his dear lady. I can not tell you, 

 senor, how good and kind she was. She treated us all as though we 



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



t Don Enrique Solano, Colonel of Infantry, Governor of the Mariannes from 1887 to 1890. He and 

 his wife are highly spoken of by J. Cumming Dewar, who visited the island in 1889, while the palace 

 was in process of construction. See his "Voyage of the Nyanza," London, 1892. 



