22 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
of Austria, in whose honor the islands were named. The Jesuits 
taught not only the Christian doctrine and the elements of learning, 
but many useful arts as well. They also instructed the native youths 
in music, as is shown by the inventory of their effects and the testi- 
mony of travelers visiting the island shortly after their expulsion. 
They had several farms in flourishing condition, the finest of which 
was that of Tachogiia, in the interior of Guam, between Agaiia and 
Pago. On this farm, called **San Ignacio de Tachogiia,” they had a 
fine herd of cattle, and elsewhere they had a stallion and a number of 
brood mares. They were in constant communication with missions 
of their order in other countries, receiving fabrics from New Spain as 
well as from China and Manila, spices from Ceylon, and tobacco from 
Mexico. Under their supervision the natives learned to cultivate 
maize, tobacco, cacao, sweet potatoes, and other plants brought from 
America, and in the inventories, besides a supply of garden imple- 
ments called *‘fosifios” (thrust hoes), new machetes for clearing the 
forest, and other implements, were found steel, iron, and blacksmith’s 
tools, tan bark and vats for tanning, carpenters’ tools, saws, crow- 
bars, pickaxes, paints, stones for grinding pigments, ** metates” and 
‘*manos,” like those of the Mexicans for converting maize into tor- 
tillas, and material and instruments for making ornaments for their 
altars. The young lieutenant of the armada who brought the order 
for their expulsion had been instructed to take away in his schooner 
the Jesuits, together with all their belongings. Realizing that this 
would be impossible, he made an official statement in writing to the 
governor, saying that his little schooner, with a single deck, could not 
accomplish the task; that it would require several two-decked vessels 
much larger than his own to take away all the belongings of the 
Fathers. Nevertheless, on November 2, 176%, the schooner. Wuestra 
Sehora de Guadalupe, which had brought the decree of banishment, 
sailed away from Guam, carrying the Fathers, together with as many 
of their personal effects as possible. Many of their papers were 
burned. In the inventory of their effects in the archives at Agafia is 
a list of letters, copies of memorials, manuscript sermons, and books. 
Even the lay brother in the kitchen, who acted as procurador, had a 
library of his own. On the arrival of the decree the senior of the 
missionaries, Padre Xavier Stengel, was absent, having gone to the 
neighboring island of Rota to hear confessions and administer the 
annual communion to the natives. A canoe was sent to bring him. 
As one of the Fathers had died sometime before the arrival of the 
decree, it was necessary to carry back a certified statement of his death 
and burial to account for his not sailing with the others. 
After the Jesuits’ departure the farms were neglected, the cattle, 
now the property of the Crown, ran wild, and many animals were 
killed by the natives, as may be seen in the records of trials in the 
