The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-05

cone out into the darkness. and these
two great luminous eyes would vibrate
! like the white metal in a saunders
cuDola. Then she looked every inch
| the monster of the. deep she is. 1t was
easy to imag CINE the terror she could
strike TO the hearts of the simple
Guamites by steaming toward their
little island with her '/ghts playing and
her steam siren tearing the air with
! that horrid noise which sounds as if
some mammoth were seeking for her
| young, and would not be comforted be-
! cause the.- were not
! Our entry into Guam was, however
very peaceable one, as The Charleston
| mad preceded us and carried away the
governor and the few soldiers that had
been on the island. The effect of the
! Charleston's short visit was such that
when the second exDedition-on the
China, Colon. Senator and Zealandia-
passed by the island and looked in
without stopping, almost every man,
Woman and child, it is said, took to the
woods.
Guam. with its 10000 native chamor-
ros, was an agreeable surprise. These
biscuit-colored, not impossible citizens
Of the United States, are a comely.
cleanly lot: and. as far as could be
learned. are unusually moral for dwell
lers on tropical island, friendly and
honest, though for years they have
been handicapped by the name La
drcnes," given them by some early
navigator. All of them appeared to
be eager for the arrival of the "Amer-
lean governor"
SIGHTS IN THE TROPICS.
From Punto Pitt, the landing place
in the harbor Of San Luis d'ADra,
where both vessels anchored, to Agana,
the principal town (about 5000 inhab-
itants) of the island there is a road
leading through wonderously beau
tiful tropical world, where grow TALL
straight cocoanut trees, with their
passing DlumeS on high, and at their
feet CARPET OF vines, two or three
feet thick. above which the under
brush runs riot. Many queer looking
travellers. on foot and on cowback, in
bullock carts and on bullocks, were
seen on that drive, from the wee dog
cart or caleche. in which the writer
bumped along, drawn by little native
pony about. as big as a minute, and
driven by a yoUngSter one-fourth as
large. Here would be a native carry
ing water in long hollow bamboo pole
held upright; there a woman pounding
maize (our Indian corn with a wooden
FOUNDER four feet long; fine, well-built
fellows from the Caroline islands, with
nothing. on but breech c.out: natives
under broad brimmed panama hats, in
their white trousers and white shirt
unconflned. One family party of three
was mounted on fat, ambling bull
lock, and the small boy of this party,
whose seat was aft, grasped firmly in
his left hand the bullocks tail, so there
was no danger that the land craft
would he run upon a rock, or Shoal,
or improperly hazarded,'' steered both
from forward and aft. Every native
passed touched his hat or took it off,
and the spirit of friendlineSS was every
where marked.
In olden times Guam was a great
stopping place. for Spanish galleons
bound from Acapulco to Manila, and
later became a rendezvous for Aneri-
can whalers. When the ports of Japan
were opened, Guam was abandoned,
but today many natives of the islands,
are doing duty on board of whalers in
the Pacific Two thousand chamorrors
Fl ON this hitherto almost unknown
island are said TO be scattered around
in the United States.
CAUSES WONDER.
It will probably be many long day
before the Monterey, once such a IA !
miliar sight there, viii be again seen |
on the Pacific coast. Whatever DISCO !
5iticn may be made of the Philippines,
the monitor will doubtless remain on !
the ASiatic station for some time to |
come, and when she reaches the Unit
ed States again it will, N all probable
ty, be after a trip by the way of the
5uez canal and the straits of Glib
raltar- In the orient she will be a
novel sight. even for the officers of
)ther navies. for no fighting machine
Ike her has ever before been seen in
!-ase waters. n.