The Plant World 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION SOCIETY 



OF AMERICA. 



VoL V. OCTOBER, 1903. No. 10. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF A NATURALIST 

 ON THE ISLAND OF GUAM.— U. 



By WiIvWam E. Safford.* 



IIvIrUSTRATED. 



TUESDAY, August 15, 1899. — Have received orders to relieve the 

 acting governor, Mr. William Coe, and to take up my residence 

 at Agaiia, the capital of the island, I have also been appointed 

 Judge of the First Instance, Eegistrar of Deeds and Titles, and am to 

 act as Auditor of the Treasury. For the present, while the Palace is 

 undergoing repairs, the Governor will remain on board the Yosemite 

 and I will have charge of the government in Agaiia. 



Mr. Coe is a half-caste Samoan, son of Captain Billy Coe, the well- 

 known pilot of Apia, to whose stories of adventure I have many times 

 listened when visiting him in the trim little cottage on Matauta Point, 

 where he used to sit day after day with his glass at hand scanning the 

 horizon for approaching vessels. Coe, the son, came here shortly after 

 the American occiipation, accompanied by his young wife, a sweet-faced, 

 gentle, brown-skinned woman, daughter of a Caroline Island chief. He 

 was appointed acting governor by the officer in charge of the " Nan- 

 shan," to relieve Don Joaquin Perez y Cruz, formerly Gobernadorcillo 

 of Agana, who had been entrusted with the government of the island 

 together with a junta composed of Kev. Jose Palomo y Torres, the 



* Continued from September issue. 



