LADRONE ISLANDS

[s. 404] : A group of about 20 The islands islands in the North Pacific Ocean. are of volcanic formation, mountainous, well watered and well wooded. Magellan discovered these islands in 1521, and named them Ladrones, from the thievish disposition of the inhabitants; they were afterward called the Lazarus Islands;, and in 1667, when the Jesuits settled there, they were renamed Marianne, or Mariana, in honor of the Spanish cjueen. The islands formerly belonged to Spam. In 1898 Guam, the largest Kwei-yang-fu 387 LiUitlynkot group, was ceded to the United States. The next year (1899) the remaining islands were ceded by Spain to Germany. The present inhabalco have mi ionaries at some of these same stations, and altogether there are 89 mi ionary itants of the islands are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from the Philippines. Guam has an area of about 200 miles and a population of 9,000. Of these, two-thirds live in The has a station Agafia, the capital. Spanish has been the language of here (1901). the islands, but English is making progre in LAGUBOTI: A village on the S. shore of Toba Lake, Sumatra. Station of the Rhenish Mi ionary Society, with (1903) 2 mi ionaries, one with his wife; 12 native workers, 13 outstations, 10 Sunday schools, 11 day schools and 3,245 profe ed Christians, of whom 870 are com muni of the ABCFM Guam. 405