The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 CHAPTER y. MICRONESIA. I.—The Mariana or Laurone Islands. TTESE islands, politically united to the Philippines for over two centuries, are also associated with them in the history of maritime exploration. They were the first group met by Magellan in 1521 on his voyage round the globe, and ten days afterwards he had reached the Philippine island of Cebu and the adjacent islet of Mactan, where he met his death. Later, when the Spaniards had permanently occupied the Philippines and established the re
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 CHAPTER y. MICRONESIA. I.—The Mariana or Laurone Islands. TTESE islands, politically united to the Philippines for over two centuries, are also associated with them in the history of maritime exploration. They were the first group met by Magellan in 1521 on his voyage round the globe, and ten days afterwards he had reached the Philippine island of Cebu and the adjacent islet of Mactan, where he met his death. Later, when the Spaniards had permanently occupied the Philippines and established the regular service of their galleons across the Pacific, the island of Guam in the Marianas became the indispensable station for their mariners between Manilla and Acapulco on the Mexican coast ; and when the aborigines of the Marianas had almost entirely disappeared this group was repeopled by immigrants from the Philippines, bringing with them new plants, usages, and language. The name of the Ladrones, or 'Robbers,' given to these islands by Magellan, has fallen into abeyance, and, like the Philippines, they are indebted to flattery for their more usual designation conferred on them in honour of the Spanish Queen, Mariana of Austria, wife of Philip. After their discovery by Magellan they were explored chiefly by Anson, Byron, Wallis, and Freycinet. A space of about 1,200 miles going eastwards separates the most advanced land in the Philippines from the first south-western island in the Mariana group, and this space is everywhere almost entirely free from islets or reefs of any sort. Nothing but a few rocks, such as Parece Vela, are visible in the north as the archipelago is approached from Japan, while some other lands announce the proximity of the Pelew Islands to mariners advancing from the south. Thus the chain of the Marianas is limited westwards by a perfectly open sea about 80,000 square miles in extent, and in some places from 1,200 to 1,500 fathoms deep. Hence it is evid
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