The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-01-03

On Board Fitzpatrick" Between
Honolulu aud Manila-The road to
Agana is fringed with cocoanut trees
nearly the whole way. On account of
the severe typhoon of last November.
the cocoanuts and bananas are almost
failure. We got some of the former.
though, and drank the juice, which
makes good drink when one is thirsty.
The nuts have she'll of fibrous tissue
about l to II inches thick and which
when dried has a commercial value.
The trees all have notches hacked into
them for the purpose Of steps to assist
the native in climbing to the top and
they go up and down as quickly as l
could do so by ladder. Only saw one
bunch of bananas and they were green.
Saw some bread fruit too. picked a
few seeds of nice bush which re-
minded me of kind Of fern and also
locust. We may have the same thing
in the states for all I know. Where
there is q forest of native trees they
grow so thick as to be almost impossi-
BILE OF passage. The native mode of
transportation is a springless cart
drawn by the caribou of the boone
species. A peculiar thing about these
animals, it is said that after three or
four hours work they must wallow in
mud and water and if they are hitched
up or not they manage to go. The
natives know this and we may often
see cart standing by the roadside and
the animal a short distance away stand
ing in the slush and water. There is a
native wood which is very heavy and
tough and is used for wheels. If the
trunk is not large enough by itself
then a large piece is prepared for the
hub part and then the two edges are
very deity spliced on and the whole is
sometimes bound in strap iron. There
are few regulation pattern wheels.
l did not see anything that suggested
the use of axle grease. The hillsides
are covered with grass or tangled tim
Der and it would seem to be good
country for grazing but it is not used
that way yet, it seems. One man who
did little investigating said he found
good potters clay, also silver and iron
ore. The coral contains an abundance
of lime. The better buildings are
covered by corrugated galvanized iron
or tile roofing. The stores are very in
complete affairs. | bought small
package of crackers similar to 'snicnaxn
done up in fin can and containing less
than pound and paid SOC, Mexican,
for 1T. e. 25c. in U. S. money. All
crackers or biscuits are shipped in air
tight tins. Ali business is done in
Mexican or Spanish money, which is
in trade accepted at one-half of the
value of our money. Twill be the
same way in the Philippines.
| On Friday / went ashore again but
was too late for the ambulance sc
walked out to the capitol, about five
miles. got out just at noon and was
kindly invited to partake of dinner ir
the marines mess and | gladly ac
cepted. They had tough boiled beef
roasting ears, potatoes, gravy, pickles
ETC., but | did pretty WE'LL The
regular mail had been put on the boa
the night before SO | was given mum
Der of letters to take aboard. Oul
party of four who had come ashore il
the morning were given instructions
to return at p. m. The ship finished
unloading it's cargo sooner than it ex
pected SO it wanted to get us ava,
sooner than it had planned | knew
nothing of this SO did not leave Agans
till 3 when the ambulance made {
special trip down. | found that two O
the men had departed some time be
fore but the other man was waiting fol
me as the ship had taken it's boat away
and left word to send us out az soon al
we should come. The other fellow was
afraid we would get left but was no
scared. On our way out we met The
governors boat returning and he sale
the ship was only waiting for us t.
come aboard before sailing away. JUS
inside the reef we met the steam launch
and transferred to it and were soon OF
board again. We were eagerly watched
as We we're coming in, to see if WI
we're on board or not Quite lot o
sport was had at our expense. That il
as near as came to getting left. The
transports aim to stop at Guam once {
month. Within about half an houl
after we came aboard the anchors
were raised and we were steaminf
slowly toward the setting sun and thu
land OF of our future habitation.
| Wednesday, Sept. 4-Since leaving
the sea has been quite rough ali thu
while and at times the wind propelled
rain has gotten in good work. Most o
the canvas or all of it now has beer