Note 3 — Discovery of the Palaos Islands

In making the visitation with the father provincial, as I have already said, we arrived at the village of Guivam,3 on the island of Samal, the largest and southernmost island of the Eastern Pintados. We found there twenty-nine Palaos, or natives of these newly-discovered islands. The easterly winds which rule over these seas from the month of December to the month of May had blown them three hundred leguas from their islands to this village on the island of Samal. They had come on two small vessels, that are called here “paraos.” This is how they relate their adventure.