Guam Past and Present. Charles Beardsley

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      The first of the two maps on the end papers shows Guam as Padre Alonso López saw it in 1675. The second map was made by Bellin in 1752.

      Guam

      Past and

      Present

      Guam

      Past and

      Present

      by Charles Beardsley

      CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY

      TOKYO, JAPAN RUTLAND, VERMONT

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      Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.,

       of Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan

       with editorial offices at

       Osaki Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0032

      Copyright in Japan, 1964

       by Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.

      All rights reserved

       Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 64-18636

       ISBN: 978-1-4629-1325-1 (ebook)

       First printing, 1964

       Eighth printing, 1986

      Book design and typography

       by Mogens Dam

      Printed in Japan

      For

      John A. Sabanovich

      who shares with many others a deep

       affection for Guam and its people.

      Table of Contents

       LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

       FOREWORD

       MAP OF GUAM

       PART ONE

       THE ISLAND IN PROFILE

       1. GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO GUAM

       2. PLANTS OF GUAM

       3. ANIMALS OF GUAM

       4. THE ABORIGINES

       5. THE FLYING PRAO

       6. THE CHAMORRO NATURE

       7. ORIGIN, RELIGION, AND LEGEND

       PART TWO

       DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST

       8. DISCOVERY: THE TRAGIC LANDING

       9. PADRE SANVITORES

      10. STATE OF SIEGE

      11. THE JESUIT EXODUS AMD LIEUTENANT CROZET

      12. SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY OF GUAM

      13. DECLINE OF AN ISLAND

       PART THREE

       TWENTIETH-CENTURY GUAM

      14. THE AMERICANS IN GUAM, 1898

      15. THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION

      16. THE RECAPTURE OF GUAM, July 21-August 10, 1944

      17. RESTORATION OF AN ISLAND

      18. GUAM'S FUTURE

       POSTSCRIPT

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

      List of Illustrations

1.	Coconut palm	145
2.	Great Typhoon of 1949	146
3.	Agaña in 1950's	146
4.	Sentry box, Umatac Bay, southern Guam	147
5.	Grandfather and grandson performing the art of corn-shucking	147
6.	Chamorran jungle hut	148
7.	Guam homecraft	148
8.	Papaya tree	149
9.	Pandanus tree (kaffoo palm or screw pine)	149
10.	Banana trees and common tangantangan