498 GUAM AND ITS PEOPLE. 



furled and preparations were made to land, Avhen it was discovered 

 that the skiff which rode astern of the Hag'shi'p was missing'. Siispect- 

 inu- that the natives had stolen it, the captain-general went ashore with 

 40 armed men, burned forty or lifty houses and many boats, and killed 

 seven or eight native men and Avomen. He then returned to the ship 

 with his skiff' and immediately set sail, continuing his course to the 

 westward. 



"Before we went ashore [says Pig-afetta] some of our people who 

 were sick said to us that if we should kill any of them, whether man 

 or woman, that we should bring on l)oard their entrails, being per- 

 suaded that with the latter they would be cured. 



"When we wounded souie of those islanders with arrows, which 

 entered their bodies, they tried to draw forth the arrow now in one 

 way and now in another, in the meantime regarding it with great aston- 

 ishment, and thus did they who Avere wounded in the breast, and they 

 died of it, which did not fail to cause us compassion. 



"Seeing us taking our departure then, they followed us with more 

 than a hundred boats for more than a league. They approached our 

 ships, showing us ffsh and pretending to wish to give them to us; l)ut 

 when they Avere near they cast stones at us and fled. We passed under 

 full sail among" their boats, Avhich with greatest dexterity escaped us. 

 We saw among them some women who were weeping and tearing their 

 hair, surely for their husbands killed l)y us." 



Ahor!(jin((l rnJiahUiOits. — The natives Avere described l)y the early 

 navigators and missionaries as people of the stature of Europeans. 

 They were lighter in color than the Filipinos, and the Avomen and 

 children Avere fairer than the men. At the time of the discovery 

 the men Avore their hair loose or coiled in a knot on top of the head. 

 Later they are described as shaving the head, Avith the exception of a 

 crest a1)Out a ffnger long, Avhich they left on the croAvn. Some of 

 them Avere bearded. Pigafetta says that they Avere Avell formed, and 

 in the I'eport of the earl}^ missionaries they were said to be n^ore cor- 

 pulent and robust than Europeans, but with a tendency to obesity. 

 Thev Avere remarkably free from dis(>ase and ])hysical defects, atid 

 lived to a great ag(>. Among those ba])tized the ffrst year by the 

 missionai'ies there Avcn'e more than li!(» said to be past the ag'e of 100 

 years. Their hair Avas naturally jet l)lack, and in eai'ly times was 

 worn so long ))y the women as to touch the ground. The men Avore 

 no clothing, and tlu> only coveiing of the Avomen Avas a small apron- 

 like garment made of the inner l)ark of a tree. TIk^ AVomen Avere 

 handsome, and more delicate in tig'ure than the men. They did not 

 woik in the fields, but occupied themselves in Aveaving baskets, mats, 

 and hats of Pandanus leaves, and doing other necessary Avork about 

 the house." 



« Lo doiiiie son belle, <li figura svelta, pin ilclicatr t' biaiu-he degli uomini, con 

 (•ai>(-'gli lU'rissinii poiolti e lunghi lino a terra. N'anno pur osso ignude, se non che 

 foprono le parti vergognoHO con ima corteccia stretta e sottile quanto la (.-arta, tratta 



