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himself !" " I'm sure, Susana, that he could not have known they were 

 bad." " Well, he ought to have known it ; and what a big piece of tobacco 

 I gave him ! ' ' 



For supper soft-boiled eggs, fresh fish sent in by Don Gregorio, 

 Susana' s brother, broiled venison, coffee, and for desert some boiled custard 

 powdered over the top with cinnamon. Then to Don Pedro Duarte'sto 

 see how he has succeeded in his survey of an island in the harbor which 

 the government is about to buy from Don Antonio Martinez. Don Pedro 

 was Secretary of Government at the time of the seizure of the island by 

 the Charleston. He was taken to Manila, but was allowed to return to 

 his family on this island. His wife is the daughter of Henry Mille- 

 champ, one of the principal citizens of the island, and of Doiia Emilia 

 Anderson. Millechamp is the son of Richard Millechamp, an English- 

 man who settled in the Bonin Islands in 1832. An interesting account 

 of the colony established by him and his associates is given by James 

 Martin Callahan in his "American Relations in the Pacific and Far 

 East " (Johns Hopkins Press, 1901). Doiia Emilia is a granddaughter 

 of a Scottish mariner who came here in 1819 as a quartermaster 

 on the Urayiie with the Freycinet expedition. Dumont d'Urville, who 

 visited Guam in 1828 on the Astrolabe, was visited by Anderson, 

 who had been appointed captain of the port. He is described as a 

 fine-looking man, well-behaved, and speaking French pretty well. 

 He gave d'Urville information regarding the hydrography of the region. 



Dofia Emilia is one of the most entertaining ladies I have met. She 

 always has a number of interesting and witty anecdotes to tell of people 

 who have visited the island. When some of the oflficers commented on 

 Don Pedro's remaining on the island, he picked up one of his little ones 

 and said, " How could I take them away and where could I take them ?" 

 This is his home, and he will follow the destiny of the island. His 

 hands were much cut to-day from crawling over the sharp rocks of the 

 island he surveyed. He was accompanied by his wife and children, who 

 gathered clams and shell-fish while he was surveying. He brought back 

 some specimens of the island caper i^Capparis mariana^ and of a tree 

 called Chopang i^Ochrocarpus sp.), evidently belonging to the Clusiaceae, 

 with finely parallel-veined leaves similar to those of the Palo Maria 

 (^Calophyllum inophylluvi) . He also brought some odd-looking fish, 

 including mangrove-hoppers (Periophthalmus) and "torillos," tiny fish 

 with horns like a bull {Ostracion cormUiis L.). Home with the plants, 

 and Scale turns out of bed to put them in press. The caper flowers 

 are very handsome, large, white with brushes of stamens. Both the 

 unopened buds and the unripe fruit are made into pickles. Susana has gone 

 home after having taken formal leave as usual. Scarcely has she gone 

 when a boy comes to the door with a haunch of venison from Don Eulogio 



