Ladrones

[Footnote 7: In this voyage the term Ladrones seems confined to the most southern islands of this group, as there are no other islands for a very considerable distance in any direction.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Robert Kerr 1784

While he lay at anchor, predatory natives stole some of his belongings; thereupon Magellan gave them a bad name, and to this day the islands bear the name Ladrones, or "thieves" islands.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

The first land seen was the little group of islands called Ladrones from the thievishness of the inhabitants, and a short stay was made at

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

This island is called Ladrones, which according to the disposition of the inhabitants, is the most appropriate name that could have been given it.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

The Ladrones are a disaffected race of Chinese, that revolted against the oppressions of the mandarins.

Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

Across this the explorers sailed for five months before they came to a group of islands which Magellan called the Ladrones

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

Accapulco is the haven whence they fit out for the Philippines, and the Ladrones are their stated places of refreshment on this voyage.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Robert Kerr 1784

They lie almost midway between the first place and Guam, one of the Ladrones, which is at present their only port in traversing this vast ocean; and it would not have been a week's sail out of their common route to have touched at them; which could have been done without running the least hazard of losing the passage, as they are sufficiently within the verge of the easterly trade-wind.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784

And now, poftponing for a fliort rime our run to Formofa, and thence to Canton, I fliall interrupt the narration with a defcription of that range of iflands, ufually called the Ladrones, or Marian iflands, of which this of Tinian is one.

A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America 1767

We did it because we really wanted to present our new material, because we had not recorded an album since 2005 (even though we did the soundtrack for “Ladrones y Mentirosos” in 2006) … This was the first time we did this and I am not sure if we will do it again.

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