Editing History of Guam (section)

=== Magellan's first encounter with Guam ===
[[File:Reception of the Manila Galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, ca. 1590.jpg|thumb|left|Reception of the [[Manila galleon|Manila Galleon]] by the [[Chamorro people|Chamoru]] in the [[Mariana Islands|Ladrones Islands]], ca. 1590 [[Boxer Codex]]]]
The first known contact between [[Guam]] and Europeans occurred with the arrival of a Spanish expedition led by [[Ferdinand Magellan]]. His three-ship fleet arrived on March 6, 1521, after a long voyage across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, from Spain. History credits the village of [[Umatac, Guam|Umatac]] as his landing place, but drawings from the navigator's diary suggest that Magellan may have landed in [[Tumon]] in northern Guam. The expedition had started out in Spain with five ships. By the time they reached the Marianas, they were down to three ships and barely half the crew, due to storms, disease, and mutiny in one ship.<ref name="Pacific Worlds">[http://www.pacificworlds.com/guam/visitors/explore.cfm Pacific Worlds], Antonio Pigafetta's account.</ref>

When Magellan's fleet arrived at Guam, they were greeted by hundreds of small [[outrigger canoe]]s that appeared to be flying over the water due to their considerable speed. These outrigger canoes were called [[proa]]s and resulted in Magellan naming Guam ''Islas de las Velas Latinas'' ("Islands of the [[Lateen sail]]s"). [[Antonio Pigafetta]] (one of  18 crewmen who completed the voyage) wrote in his account that the name was "Island of Sails".

Tired and hungry from their long voyage, the crew prepared to go ashore and get food and water. However, the Chamorus had a different concept of ownership, based on subsistence living, and were very excited by the appearance of these strange vessels.<ref name=Rodgers>{{Cite book
  | last = Rogers
  | first = Robert
  | title = Destiny's landfall: a history of Guam
  | publisher = University of Hawaii Press
  | year = 1995
  | location = Honolulu
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AEn9J3tXFS8C&pg=PA30
  | isbn = 0-8248-1678-1}}</ref>{{rp|30}} The Chamorus canoed out to the ships and began helping themselves to everything that was not nailed down to the deck of the galleons. "The aboriginals were willing to engage in barter... Their love of gain overcame every other consideration."<ref name="F.H.H Guillemard">[Guam Past and Present by Charles Beardsley], F.H.H Guillemard's accounts.</ref>

Pigafetta wrote that the inhabitants "entered the ships and stole whatever they could lay their hands on," including "the small boat that was fastened to the poop of the flagship."<ref name=Nowell>{{cite book|last=Nowell|first=Charles E.|date=1962|title=Magellan's voyage around the world; three contemporary accounts|url=https://archive.org/details/magellansvoyage00pigagoog |location=Evanston |publisher=Northwestern University Press|oclc=347382 |access-date=November 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114001942/http://archive.org/details/magellansvoyage00pigagoog |archive-date=November 14, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|129}} "Those people are poor, but ingenious and very thievish, on account of which we called those three islands ''Islas de los Ladrones'' ("Islands of thieves")."<ref name=Nowell />{{rp|131}}
 
After a few shots were fired from the [[Trinidad (ship)|''Trinidad'']]'s big guns, the natives were frightened off from the ship and retreated into the surrounding jungle. Magellan was eventually able to obtain rations and offered iron, a highly prized material, in exchange for fresh fruits, vegetables, and water. Details of this visit, the first in history between the Spanish and a Pacific island people, come from Pigafetta's journal.<ref name="Pacific Worlds" />