20 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM, 
baskets of Indian corn, 14 bags of rice, 44 baskets of yams, and S800 
coconuts. Fourteen bullocks, descr ‘hod as **small and lean,” were dis- 
tributed among the ships, and each ship was given 2 cows and calves, 
The English took receipts from the Spanish for their presents, and 
gave to them certificates ‘*to show to any English that they had parted 
friendly.” They sent ashore an old Spaniard whom they held as 
prisoner and got a receipt for him. 
In Woodes Rogers’s Narrative he gives the population of the islands 
and various other data. Among the fruits were oranges, lemons, cit- 
rons, muskmelons, and watermelons, which were brought hither by 
the Spaniards. The orange trees were thriving well. Cattle were 
plenty, but were small and poor. Much indigo was seen growing wild 
and not utilized. Money was scarce. The 200 soldiers were paid once 
a year in money brought from Manila, the ship bringing their pay 
carrying also clothing, sugar, rice, and liquors. These articles being 
sold on the island, the ship usually returned to Manila with most of 
the money she had brought. On this account the natives were plant- 
ing rice and making other improvements in their agriculture. The 
hogs were described as ‘* the best pork in the world, because they are 
fed altogether on coconuts and breadfruit, which are plentiful here.” 
The Spaniards were marrying with the natives. The Indians are 
described as tall, strong, and dark-colored, the men wearing no cloth- 
ing but a breech clout and the women wearing little petticoats. The 
natives were skillful in slinging stones, which they made of clay, of 
an oval form, burning them till as hard as marble. They were such 
good marksmen that the Spaniards said they seldom missed hitting 
any mark, throwing a projectile with such force as to killa man ata 
considerable distance. They also had lances, made of coconut wood. 
One of the flying praos of the natives was presented by the governor 
to Woodes Rogers, who gives a detailed description of it in his 
Narrative.“ 
The governor of Guam, Don Antonio Pimentel, was afterwards tried 
by the Spanish authorities for giving aid and comfort to the English. 
A copy of the proceedings now in the archives at Agaiia, dated 1720, 
is marked ‘‘Causa formada en virtud de Real provision 4 Don Juan 
Antonio Pimentel, Gobernador de estas islas Marianas, sobre la acogida 
y refresco que did 4 los Piratas, que upresitron la Nao Almiranta 
Nuestra Sefiora dela Encarnacion de \a carrera de Acapulco.” 
ANSON, 
Among the other travelers to visit the Marianne Islands was Anson, 
the famous cireumnavigator, who stopped at Tinian for repairs in 
1742, the same year that he ¢ “aptured the treasure- laden galleon from 
a “asec Woodes Rogers’s Narrative, 1712, 
