/. D. Hague on the Guano Islands of the Pacific Ocean. 241 



It is not unlikely that the lizards which abound on the inhab- 

 ited islands of the Pacific were brought here by these people^ 

 and the rats, possibly, came from the same source. 



Other Islands. — As already observed, the discovery of these 

 deposits of guano, the extent and value of which ^ ■ - ■ 



ted, in' 



ter. Under the act of Congi 

 taction to the discoverers and occupants, under certain conditions, 

 of such newly found deposits, nearly all the islands found on the 

 charts within ten degrees north or south of the equator and 

 within 150° and 180° W. were represented as possessing deposits 

 of guano, and claimed by parties who evidently knew but little 

 of their true condition. 



. A list, forty-eight in number, comprising nearly all of these 

 islands, was published in the New York Tribune, in March, 1859, 

 and was copied and discussed by Mr. E. Behm, in his interestmg 

 and valuable article, entitled *'i)as Araerikanische Polynesien,'* 

 printed in Peterraann's Mittheilungen, for 1859. 

 . 9f these islands, a number of which I have myself examined, 

 It is safe to assert that some, although having a place on the 

 charts, do not really exist, while many are of very doubtful ex- 

 istence; in some cases two or more names are applied to the 

 same island; some are inhabited, others are covered with trees 

 and vegetation, and very few have guano on them.* 



* The following 13 the list referred to. Those 



con^dered as highi; irp^rotbl^t leL ia the position commonly^assigoed to them. 



Baker's, 



C;i;;iine, ■ Danger. {60 30' N., Arthur's 

 Ann'« 16^'° 32' W.), Favorite, 



^"6iio'6'w7" K'l"'' ll?nU.%2«'S.. 



Quiro's. ' ^"^^''^ 

 Fesckdo, 



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