WHALING VOYAGE, 
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CHAPTER IX, 
On the 21st of February 1832, we made the island of 
Rota, one of the Ladrones, which lies in the longi- 
tude of about 154° east, and in about the latitude of 
13° 39' north. Steering s.s.w. all night, at daybreak we 
found ourselves near the island of Guam, which is the 
principal one of the group, and at which it was our 
determination to cast anchor, in the harbour of Port 
Apra, as it is called. 
These majestic-looking islands were discovered by 
the great Portuguese navigator, D. Fernando Magallanez, 
in 1520, and invaded by the Spaniards in 1564, but 
their conquest was not completed until the year 1592; 
although the Spaniards had during the different years of 
their invasion resorted to their usual sanguinary means, 
and it was not until they had destroyed an immense 
number of the inhabitants that they could bring the 
warlike Ladrones to a state of subjection. When the 
conquest was finished, they obliged the conquered people 
to leave all the other islands which form this group, and 
go to reside on only two of them- — Guam and Rota, 
which placed them completely under the observation of 
their jealous invaders, who have managed ever since to 
keep them in a state of subjugation, although the spirit 
