30 USEFUL PLANTS OB^ GUAM. 



by (7iiudicli;iud in the Boliuiy of the Frcycinet Expedition, " and the 

 oTcater part of lii.s observations ui-e eni])odied in th(> narrative of the 

 expedition pnl)Iished ])y Freycinet hiniwelf/' The zoology was pub- 

 lished by Quoy and Gainiard. A narrative of the expedition was 

 published independently ])y the artist Jaques Arago, which abounds 

 in exago-erations. scandalous stoi'ies, and unkinil criticisms and ridi- 

 cule of the people whose hospitalit}' he had enjoyed. Its publication 

 naturally oti'ended the Spaniards, and the next expedition from France 

 to visit the island met with a very different reception at the hands of 

 the governor/ While waiting- for supplies from Manila a survej^ of 

 the island was made by M. Duperre}^ under the direction of Freycinet. 

 Existing maps were corrected and several charts of small harbors 

 were drawn. 



DUMONT d'uRVILLE's TWO VISITS. 



Dumont d'Urville made two visits to the island of Guam. On his 

 first visit, in Ma}", 1828, he came in command of the Astrolabe, which 

 had been sent out on an exploring voyage with special instructions to 

 look for traces of La Perouse. Attached to the Astrolahe were Lesson, 

 as pharmacist and botanist, who assisted d'Urvdlle in collecting plants, 

 and Quoy and Gaimard, as zoologists, who were the first to collect 

 specimens of the Guam reed-warbler, AcrocephaluH lusclnia,, the only 

 true song bird of the island, A most interesting narrative of this 

 expedition was written by Dumont d'Urville himself, and the zoology 

 was published by Quo}^ and Gaimard.'^ 



The Astrolabe anchored at Umata and was boarded by Jose Flores, 

 alcalde of the village. He told the captain that he had seen the ships 

 of Malaspina, who visited Guam in 1792, thirty-six years before. In 

 the roadstead d'Urville saw two ships which had been captured by the 

 Spaniards from the independents of Mexico and were now being taken 

 to Manila. Three years before this there had been a mutiny on lioard 

 some Spanish vessels \yir\g at anchor in the roadstead of Umata. The 

 squadron was commanded by Don Andres Garcia Camba, Caballero de 

 Santiago, afterwards governor of the Philippines. General Camba 

 had served in South America against the revolutionists and had been 

 captured at the battle of Ayacucho, December 9, 1824, in which the 



« Botanique du voyage autour du monde. See List of works. 



''Freycinet, Louis de: Voyage autour du inonde. See List of Avorks. 



c Sanchez y Zayan, Islas INIarianas, p. 230. See List of -works. The author calls 

 attention to the fact that INIedinilla, the governor of Guam at'the time of the Uranir's 

 visit, entertained the captain and all the Frencli officers for eight months, giving 

 them bed and board; but that his hospitality ''was very poorly repaid, according to 

 ol<l French custom, as may be seen in the l)Ook written by Arago, draftsman of the 

 expedition, a book which unfortunately has been translated into Spanish, although 

 the narrative of the commanding officer has not been translated." 



^Voyage de d^couvertes de I' Astrolabe, 1833. 



