A STOREHOUSE AXD HOSPITAL. 



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of the island, the Spaniards of the neighboring station of Guam 

 used it as a storehouse and granary from whence they drew in- 

 exhaustible supplies. 



A portion of this relation Anson could verify upon the spot : 

 he discovered herds of cattle feeding in security upon the island, 

 and it was not difficult to fill, in imagination, the rich forests 

 which clothed it, with tropical fruits and all the varied produc- 

 tions of those beneficent climes. On landing, he at once con- 

 verted a storehouse filled with jerked beef into an hospital for 

 the sick : in this he deposited one hundred and tw T enty-eight of 

 his invalids. The salutary effect of land-treatment and vege- 

 table food was such that, though twenty-one died on the first 

 day, only ten others died during the two months that the Cen- 

 turion remained at anchor in the harbor. 



ANSON'S ENCAMPMENT AT TINtAN. 



Anson gives a romantic account of the happy island of Tinian 

 The vegetation was not luxuriant and rank, but resembled the 

 clean and uniform lawns of an English estate. The turf was 

 composed of clover intermixed with a variety of flowers. The 

 woods consisted of tall and wide-spreading trees, imposing in their 

 aspect or inviting in their fruit. Three thousand cattle, milk- 

 white with the exception of their ears, which were black, grazed 

 in a single meadow. The clamor and paradings of domestic 

 poultry excited the idea of neighboring farms and villages. 

 Both the cattle and the fowls were easily run down and captured, 

 so that the Centurion husbanded her ammunition. The hogs were 



