The Plant World 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF POPULAR BOTANY 



Official Organ of 

 The Wild Flower Preservation Society 



OF America 



Vol. VII AUGUST, 1904 No. 8 



Extracts from the Note-Book of a Nat- 

 uralist on the Island of Guam.— XXL* 



By WilIvIAm K. Safford. 



Tuesday, February 6. — This morning, while at breakfast, Susana sud- 

 denly exclaimed: " Look, sefior, the signal is up! A vessel has been 

 sighted." She handed me my glasses, and without rising from my chair 

 I looked up at the signal station on the brow of the hill behind the town, 

 and there hung the signal — a vertical form, signifying a steamer. My 

 first impulse was to sit down and write letters, as most of the ships stop 

 but a few hours to get the mail ; but my work had to be attended to and 

 there were already twenty people waiting outside my office across the 

 plaza, some with land titles to be registered, others with petitions of vari- 

 ous kinds, and others with complaints against some neighbor for infring- 

 ing upon their land or for having killed a pig or cow found destroying a 

 plantation. The land cases I act upon myself, the petitions I submit to 

 the Governor, and the smaller cases I turn over to the native justice of 

 the peace, Don Luis de Torres. 



The steamer proved to be the U. S. transport Warren, with General 

 Wheeler on board. He is accompanied by his secretary and Mr. William 

 Bengough, a correspondent for Harper^ s Weekly, who is on his way home 

 from the Philippines. General Wheeler's mission is somewhat unusual. 

 He has been ordered by General Otis, the military Governor of the Philip- 

 pines, to visit this island and investigate the conditions existing here, the 



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



