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terre," and a volume of " Summer Sermons from a Berkshire Pulpit," 

 by Phillips Brooks's friend, William Wilberforce Newton, with an in- 

 scription dated Pittsfield, January 17, 1888. 



Among the French books are Flau1)ert's ' ' Correspondence ' ' ; Dumas's 

 "Vicomte de Bragelonne," a book very dear to Stevenson; " Lettres 

 de Marguerite d'Angouleme," the contemporary and friend of Marot ; 

 Renan's " Souvenirs d'Enfance et Jeunesse," " I'Antechrist," "lesEvan- 

 giles, ' ' and ' ' le Cantique des Cantiques ' ' ; and ' ' I'Ensorcelee, ' ' by Barbey 

 d'Aurevilly, an author in whom Stevenson was much interested, and in 

 whose Norman stories he took great delight. I have also Stevenson's copies 

 of Maurice de Guerin's " Journal," edited by Trebutien ; Georges Sand's 

 Correspondence, ' ' almost read to pieces ; Flaubert's ' ' Education Senti- 

 mentale " ; and the " Poesies de vSulh'- Prudhomme." Other interesting 

 works, in Latin accompanied by French translations, are those of Horace 

 and Martial and the " Confessions de Saint Augustin," the first part of 

 the last work marked with a number of marginal comments, the latter part 

 uncut. 



I have shown my Stevenson books to many people, but I know of no 

 one who manifested more sincere reverence or more intelligent apprecia- 

 tion for them than Mr. William Bengough. After his departure from the 

 island he wrote me a very courteous note expressing appreciation for the 

 poor hospitality I was able to offer him and of his intense delight in my 

 books. My little home, he said, was like an oasis in a desert. The day 

 after his departure my faithful Susana said : " Jesiis! sefior, the gentle- 

 man did nothing but read and read. He read in every book on the 

 shelves. He did not want to eat, and when I went home for the night 

 he was still reading. I think surely he must have read the whole night 

 long ; and, seiior, it was not in one, but in all the books." 



Of our trip to Inalahan and the other villages in the southern part of 

 the island. General Wheeler has already written in his official report. 

 We were received everywhere with smiling faces. We found all the 

 villages neatly swept, and the houses sweet and clean. Those who had 

 flags of the United States displayed them, the rest hung out tiny white 

 ones. In several places we were met by the school masters and mistresses 

 with a company of little children dressed in white. As we rounded the 

 head of the bay of San Luis de Apra, I called General Wheeler's atten- 

 tion to the mangroves which form a dense thicket along the shore : 

 Rhizophora imicronata, Bruguiera gymnorhiza, the red-flowered Luninitz- 

 er a pedicel lata, and the great tree Heritiera littoralis, with keeled nuts. At 

 Agat we were invited to luncheon by a Spanish gentleman. On approach- 

 ing Umata we were met at some distance from the town by a committee of 

 leading citizens. Bells were rung, guns were fired, and every one gave vent 

 to expressions of loyalty to the United States and of respect to the ' ' Captain 



