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Acapuleo, on which was found the chart containing, as far as is known, 
the first indication of the existence of the Hawaiian Islands.¢ Anson 
had been sent from England in L740 to annoy the Spaniards in the 
South Seas. After having lost most of his men from scurvy, he 
crossed the Pacific in the only remaining ship out of his squadron of 
eight vessels, the Centur/on. He found the island of Tinian nearly 
deserted and overrun with wild cattle and wild hogs. He gives a 
glowing account of the beauty of the island, but this was declared by 
Byron, who afterwards visited the island, to be overdrawn. 
DE PAGES. 
In 1768 Guam was visited by the French traveler, De Pages, who 
was a passenger on the galleon that brought Don Enrique de Olavide y 
Michelena. Don Enrique was about to begin a second term as goy- 
ernor of the Mariannes, relieving Don José de Soroa. In De Pagés’s 
narrative’ he gives a vivid account of his trip from Acapulco to 
Guam, describing the conditions on board the galleon, the character 
of the passengers and cargo, the courses steered, and the weather 
encountered: At Guam he saw the breadfruit for the first time, and 
he speaks of the habit of betel chewing, to which the natives were 
addicted, describing the areca nut and the betel pepper. As an illus- 
tration of the isolated state of Guam, he states that it had been eight 
years since a vessel from Manila had touched at the island. 
EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS. 
A year after the arrival of Olavide the Jesuit missionaries were 
expelled from the Mariannes by the edict of the King of Spain, Carlos 
III, dated February 27, 1767. It was this King who joined France 
in sending assistance to the American colonies during their struggle 
for independence. The Jesuits had been in the islands for a century, 
and whatever may have been the harsh means by which they were 
established there, they had won the love and confidence of the natives, 
and were kind and just in their dealings with them, protecting them 
when necessary against acts of cruelty, injustice, and oppression on 
the part of the military authorities,’ and never exacting services from 
them without due compensation. A school for the education of native 
children had been established shortly after the death of Padre Sanvi- 
tores under the name of ‘* Colegio de San Juan de Letran,” and had 
been endowed with a fund yielding 3,000 pesos a year by Maria Anna 
«See Lord Anson’s Voyage Round the World, 1748. 
> De Pages, Travels Round the World (English translation), 1791. 
¢ Among the official papers in the archives at Agafia are the proceedings of several 
‘‘residencias,”? or courts of inquiry, held at Agana for the trial of governors and 
officers composing their staff. In these trials the padres represented the interests of 
natives who might have cause for complaint against the authorities. 
