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USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



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Sewers needed at Agafia 136 



Shark 85 



Shells used for rattles and trumpets 108 



Shipwrecked sailors, kind treatment 14 



Shoes, modern 123, 126 



Shore birds 179 



line of island 46 



plants 53 



.Shrines in modern houses 124 



Sick, care by medical officers of the Navy. . 136 



Siganas, fishes 85,87,88 



Sihig, a bird 79 



Sihig, a fish 88 



Silversmiths 125 



Sink-holes on the island 52 



Skinks (small lizards) 81 



Skulls of ancestors kept in houses 109 



carried in war 107 



Skulls, veneration 107,111 



Slings used as weapons 20, 106 



Sloane, Hans, on the Gulf Stream 73 



Smallpox 39, 122 



Snakes, absence 81 



Snipe 80 



Soap oranges used for washing 227 



Soap made from coconut oil 147,241 



Social institutions of modern natives 128 



Soil exhausted by cultivation 139-141 



Soils of the island 141 



Solano, Padre, Jesuit missionary 16 



Solenopsis, an ant 92 



Solomon Islands 97 



Song bird (Acroccphalus luscinia) 79 



Songs 108,110 



Sorcerers (makahna) 109,111,112 



Soul (ante) belief in 109 



Spaniards criticised by Chamisso 29 



Spears and slings of aborigines 106 



Spermatozoids of Cycads 72 



Sphinx moth larvte on tobacco 91,152 



Spiders 94 



Spilbergen, Dutch admiral, visit 13 



Spirits of the dead 109 



Spitting, superstition regarding 112 



Spofford, Dr. Ainsworth R 154 



Sports and pastimes 107, 131 



Sguatarola squatarola, a plover 80 



Stahl, Ernst, on raphides 71 



Standards of measure 138 



Starch, preparation 317,318 



Starch-yielding plants 145, 376 



Starchy fruits 145 



Starfish 89 



Starling 79 



Statistics of commerce, population, etc 137 



Stavers, English captain 36 



Stejneger, Leonard 80 



Stengel, Xavier, Jesuit missionary 22 



Sterile plants, propagation 59 



Stizolobium giganteum, a sea-bean 73 



Stoasodon, a ray 84 



Stone implements, ancient 100 



Stone pillars 97 



Storms 43 



Strandsoil 139 



Strand vegetation , -. , , . 53 



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Streams 53 



Strongholds of aborigines 107 



Succession, laws 106 



Suicide of natives 16 



Sugar imported into Guam 137 



made of coconut sap 238 



Sugar cane 366 



origin 153 



vernacular names of 115 



Sula (sea birds) 80 



Sumai village 49 



population 137 



Sun, myth regarding 110 



Sunday, observance 131 



Superstitions of aborigines 109, 113 



Surface of the island . . 46 



Surgeon-fishes. See Lancet-fishes. 



Surgeon-General of the Navy, report 121 



Surmullets called Salmonete 87 



Survey board appointed by Secretary of the 



Navy 48 



Survey of island by Duperrey 30 



Swamp called la Cienaga 34, 52 



Swamp plants 379 



Swan, Captain, a privateer 17 



Sweet potatoes 145, 297 



unknown to the aboriginal inhabitants. . . 98 



Swift, edible nest 79 



Sword grass for thatching 57, 150 



Synayiceia tliersites, a poisonous fish '... 87 



Synapta, a holothurian 89 



Synodus (lizard-fishes) 82 



Syphilis, inherited, among natives 121 



Tacamahac resin 208, 289 



Tachogna farm 22 



Tahitian language 113 



plant names 170 



Talage Bay 47 



Talisai village, night attack 105 



Talofofo River 52 



Valley, fertility 140,144 



cavern 52 



Tamarind 146 



Tanning materials 126, 203, 357, 383 



Tapa (bark cloth) ..-. 96,189 



Tapioca 317 



Taro 69, 207 



acridity destroyed by heat 69, 70 



cultivation 144, 207 



Guam name similar to that of the Mala- 



gassy 154 



giant, eaten only in case of necessity — 144 



needle crystals ( raphides) 69 



Tattler, Asiatic wandering 80 



Telegraphic cable 44, 45 



Temperance of aboriginies 99, 103 



Temperature statistics for 1902 42 



Temples, absence 109 



Tengho Mountain 48, 51 



Terminalia nuts eaten by aborigines 98 



Termites (white ants) 94 



Tern, snowy, a sea-bird 80 



Terraces caused by successive upheavals.. 47,51 



Tetradrachmum aruanum, a fish 83 



Teutliis lini aius, a beautiful lancet fi^b 82, 85 



Textile pandauus, uses 150 



