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de la Cruz, a Philippine merchant living on this island. The orderly- 

 smells it, declares that it will not spoil before to-morrow and hangs it up 

 in the kitchen. Meat is kept from day to day by cooking and recooking it. 



I now finish a letter (from which the above extracts are taken), and 

 open a sliding shutter to let in the evening breeze. The air is fragrant 

 with the odor of the night-blooming jasmine {.Cestriini yioduryiuni) , two 

 large bushes of which grow at the door of the old church, whose tile-capped 

 belfry I can see outlined against the sky. The southern cross is bending 

 low to the westward, which reminds me that it is nearly midnight. 



Saturday, June 30. — William Coe, a half-caste Samoan who came to 

 Guam after the American occupation and bought land, has offered his farm 

 for sale. His wife, a Caroline Islander, died recently, and Coe has 

 decided to leave the island. To-day I received a note from him offering 

 to sell me his propert}'-. It reads as follows : 



Farm situated in Tutiihan with its appurtenaiices thereunto, $500 

 Mexican. — 255 coconuts, bearing ; 745 coconuts recently planted, not 

 bearing ; 10 breadfruit trees, 4dugdug (seeded breadfruit) trees ; 70 pine- 

 apples ; 6 " mummy apples ' ' (papayas) large size ; 150 banana plants (not 

 including sprouts); 321 coffee plants 2 years old; 5 orange trees; 3 

 soursop trees ; 3 custard-apple trees ; 1 large mango tree ; 1 dwelling 

 house; and 32 big and small chickens. The land contains about 24 

 acres." 



As I have all the land I wish I shall not buy the farm, but I think it 

 would be a good investment for any of the marines or bandsmen who 

 wish to settle on this island. 



Sunday, July 1. — I have been under the weather for a few days, threat- 

 ened with dysentery. Received a number of visits from natives who heard 

 that I was ill, among them Henry Millechamp and his wife Dofia Emilia. 

 Dona Emilia said that it was not her custom to call upon gentlemen , but that 

 I had been so attentive during a recent illness of hers that she wished to 

 return my visits and show some appreciation . She brought me a jar of sour- 

 sop dulce. Dofia Regina Sigiienza sent me some delicious pickled caper 

 pods. Dofia Emilia did not look well, but she was very bright and 

 cheery. She is much disturbed on account of a recent order of the 

 Governor in which he prohibits religious instruction in the schools 

 and orders all crucifixes and sacred pictures to be removed from the 

 school-rooms. She is a devout Catholic, and can not understand why 

 the Colonel has prayer-meetings and tells the people that Father Palomo 

 is teaching them false doctrines. 



Monday, [uly 2. — I handed in to-day the treasury accounts of this 

 island for the fiscal half-year ending June 30. We now have in the 

 treasury $10,426.89 Mexican silver ; but I find that if it were not for the 

 large sale of postage stamps ($3, 567.00) and import duties ($6,545.72) our 



