The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-08
OF the school house dc not look as II they had
been opened In years.

OF the school house do not look rs II they had
been opened In years.
IN THE VILLAGE.
The village is laid of in squares. with wide.
regular streets. Most OF the houses nre Of
wood. two are Of stone. and n few are bamboo.
All the living quarters are we'll m from tho
ground. and the wooden houses have open
spaces OF from three to fve feet under their
floors. Only the stone houses are OF two
stories, Back OF each house and Mt the same
level is u shocklike kitchen. Four posts serve
10 hold up the floor and tho lean-to thatch, In
| one corner n forReliko stove Is built. where
the women make a fire Of wood over which
they cook. A running board set on posts
the same level as the floors leads
from house to kitchen. Any man gets
fresh water by digging a little hole
In his backyard. Usually there IRE four houses
In q block sometimes there are more. Each
block In likely to find in one Of the backyards
an elaborate oven. 1t is built up solidly Of
masonry. and Is shaped like a beehive. Over 1t
Is the protecting thntch Of cocoanut leaves,
tough. strong and impervious to water. In a
corner OF every house or yard stands an up
right stone followed ont to make a big mortar.
There the women grind the corn or rice, They
have big, heavy sticks like q PAYERS
hammer. and maui the corn until 1t Is
pounded into a flno flour. In two OF the
backyards Of Sournaye there are big copper
stills where the Chamorro owners manufacture
a species of aguardiente which is a concentra-
lion OF ~liquefed live wine and all the fires in
hell. 1t is 80 volatile that it's evaporation would
almost make ice. but 1t will produce a jag that
will not evaporate or be reasonable. However,
the simple pastoral natives swallow it by the
half bottle. nor yet denle their threats with
water.
To the left OF the boathouse. as you startdown
or up-the main street OF Sournaye. stands
a big stone house. Just beyond 1t the first
cross street runs at right angles to the street of
the church and boathouse. Across this narrow
in comparison with the others-street stands
the other pretcntious stone house OF the village.
These two houses are owned, the first by VIM
cente DiaZ. and the second by Nicolas DiaZ, his
brother. Vincentc Diaz adds to his autograph
list policeman. ~ and Nicolas writes I'D police
man." They have just reversed places.
A few months ago Nicolas was first and
Vlncente second. In n few months more
they will shift again. There has to be
an evening up OF honors in this Diaz
family. In spite Of their names the Diaz broth
ers say they are full-blood Chnmorros. and their
families have lived at Sournaye as long rs they
k~now-they never heard OF any other place or
home. These DiaZes speak the best English In
the village. and they explained how it is that
every able bodied man in Sournaye can under
stand and make himself understood in that
tongue. They do 1t with the single word
"whaler." Then they 60 on TO say that
for many years it has been the custom Of
whalers to comet to Guam to get oarsmen. Along
the beach in front of Sournaye there are
n score or more of fine whaleboats, Each boat
is pulled well UP out Of the water and stands
under a little house OF its own.t the peaked roof
OF which is the inevitable thatch Of cocoanut
palpn lanf Tho Con rnn 10 rhaponr,OS n ra aynarf
men with the oars and very valuable in the
crews Of whalcrs. They are small but tough.
and do not wear ont, and they work for small
wages. On the whalcrs they learn to speak
English more or less we'll. The Diaz brothers
began that way and have kept it up by practice
with the whalers. who have come to Guam
since they became sufficiently far advanced in
property to quit such service. Now they trade
with whalers and sell them pineapples. ba-
nanas. cocoanuts. lines and such things.
THE HOUSE OF v1NoENTE DIAz.
The house Of Vincente Diaz has a big door
through the thick stone wall at the ground.
There Is no floor. but the ground has been
packed hard by much tramplng. Above the
ground about seven feet is the first floor. The
space below the floor is divided by two parti-
lions into a room at each end and a sort OF CEN
trial hall which leads to a door in the back wall.
where a flight Of rude steps made OF logs
roughly hewn leads to the living quarters
on the floor above. These end rooms on the
ground are used as storerooms and filled
with piles OF the various products OF the fer
tile land Of Guam. The floor Of the living
rooms Is made OF broad. rough-hewn boards OF
red mahogany. There is a large room in the
middle. about 81 feet long by 10 wide. At each
end is a small living room. 10 feet across the
house by 8 feet. At the east end a gallery is
built out beyond the end Of the house. There
is a window in this gallery. and there the
women sit to gossip and do their " samplers. "
The furniture Of the house is rough mahogany,
except a few cheap chairs with cane seats,
The tables are heavily built Of the heavy
wood. and there are several heavy benches
used for seats. with rough openwork
backs, the spindles OF which are rudely
worked down apparently with some sort Of an
axe or Ratchet. The bedsteads are Of the same
rough mahogany. corded like those our great
grandfathers had. and at their heads. in Vim.
cente Diaz's house. stand little shrines. with
c~ocoanut oil lamps, which never 60 out-at
least never in theory. for these people are good
Catholics. and have been almost ever since the
great Magellan discovered these islands. before
the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
To the house of vincente Diaz the first boat.
load from the Australia were invited with Rrcat
cordially as soon as their feet touched land
ne illuIt IL Vic Lhch - tHo NliuGt ButH'
cred about the Diaz door and posed for theil
photographs with grave good nature. The
women looked out OF the window OF their gal
lery and got themselves Included In the group
Then everybody went upstairs and was pre-,
sented to Mrs. Diaz and her mother and hel
sister.
THE JUAN WOMEN.
As soon as that was over the women prompt.
ly disappeared. and thereafter we're seen nc
more. Vincente DinZ boasts OF his pure Chamor
70 blood. but his children cannot. for his wife
has red hair and light eyes. Do you remembe
that tanning headed Namgay Dooley. who gave
the heather King In India such n peck o
trouble until he was made policeman Far bt
1t from me to suggest that that is why Vinccntt
Diaz is first policeman Of the district OF Sour
naye. but there is an analogy, The womcI
were rather good looking. They are entirely