20 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



baskets of Indian corn, 14 bags of rice, 44 baskets of yams, and 800 

 coconuts. Fourteen bullocks, described 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 mone} 7 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 the} 7 are 

 fed altogether on coconuts and breadfruit, which are plentiful here." 



The Spaniards were manying 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 kill a man at a 

 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 Agana, dated 1720, 

 is marked "Causa formada en virtud de Real provision a Don Juan 

 Antonio Pimentel, Gobernador de estas islas Marianas, sobre la acogida 

 y refresco que dio a los Piratas, que apresaron la Nao Almiranta 

 Nuestra Senora de la Encarnacion de la carrera de Acapulco." 



Among the other travelers to visit the Marianne Islands was Anson, 

 the famous circumnavigator, who stopped at Tinian for repairs in 

 1742, the same year that he captured the treasure- laden galleon from 



See Woodes Kogers's Narrative, 1712. 



